Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's William Bridges Page | Language: English | ISBN:
073820904X | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Racine Journal Times, 3/3/11
“Excellent.”
Cleveland Sun Messenger, 3/24/11
“Provid[es] an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process.”
About the Author
Formerly a professor of English, William Bridges made a shift to the field of transitional management in the mid-1970s; out of his workshops has grown a long career of consulting, lecturing, and helping others through transitions. He lives with his wife in Mill Valley, California.
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- Paperback: 194 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press; 2 Exp Upd edition (August 10, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 073820904X
- ISBN-13: 978-0738209043
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
In a recent survey, people were asked to list the most disturbing and disruptive things in their lives, and rank them according to difficulty to handle. It was seen that the highest proportion of difficulties involved transitions in people lives -- moving, new jobs, divorce, marriage, new child, death, etc. Surprisingly, there is not a great body of work dealing specifically with transitions and methods for coping and dealing with transitions in life. William Bridges provides a useful, accessible, and needed book on this important topic.
The book is divided into two broad topics: The Need for Change and The Transition Process. There is a brief epilogue following.
Part 1: The Need for Change
Americans seem, much more than people from more traditional, more grounded, and more static cultures, to always be in a state of transition, moving from one thing to another, both personally and professionally. This can be seen in the increasing pace of career-change, personal relocation, divorce and remarriage rates (which only scratch the surface of the larger transitional base of undocumented relationships), and so on. One could say that American culture is built upon constant transition (and some Marxists thought they were developing a system of institutionalised revolution -- they could probably never outdo modern American society for that!)
Being in transition is natural, but sometimes a confusing state, not simply because of the situational difficulties, but because they are not supposed to be difficult to handle.
`The big events -- divorce, death, losing a job, and other obviously painful changes -- are easy to spot.
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