The Next Phase:
Life Strategies for Navigating Personal & Professional Transitions

Moving through significant shifts in life affords a rare opportunity: to consider
new options, to take stock of accomplishments, and to develop an exciting
future. However, as with all transitions, this is often a time fraught with uncertainty, reluctance to let go of the familiar, and questioning of what comes next. Participants
will look at their life histories, and then individually and collectively look at values, wishes, and desires for the next step in their lives.

Participants will learn to envision a broader range of possibilities, and to examine
the advantages and drawbacks of having a wide variety of choices. This will provide
an opportunity to look at individual styles of dealing with change, paying attention to
support mechanisms and obstacles to success, and how to stay in dialogue with others during the journey through transition.

The workshop will include individual and small group exercises, as well as whole
group presentation and discussion. Not only will the focus be on the work within the program, but attention will be paid to how participants can support the process of transitioning successfully in the future.

Benefits

Participants will:

• Re-examine old dreams or interests that have been put aside.
  
• Explore their life experiences.
  
• Reflect on the impact of others on their choices.
  
• Incorporate goals for physical and psychological health in their exploration.
  
• Learn how to release from past involvements and preoccupations.
  
• Integrate new choices and directions with their significant others.
  
• Explore their style of dealing with change.
• Learning planning techniques that produce positive results
  

Participants

This program is for those facing a major transition, whether this change is planned
by choice or imposed by circumstance. It is also recommended for coaches supporting the transition of others. The program is open to people from all walks of life. For those
in a committed, intimate relationship, it is strongly urged that both partners attend.

Coaches - This program qualifies for International Coach Federation (ICF) Continuing Coaching Education (CCE) credits. Please see the Continuing Education page for full details.

“The Next Phase program was helpful to me in three ways. The first is that I was trying to solve someone else’s ‘Next Phase’ without realizing it because it involves me. The second and third, in that it broadened how I look at the next part of my life from linear to a spectrum of looking at past wants and how I got to be where I am today. The telling of my life shifted. Thank you.”

Pamela Gleisser, LISW MS