For individuals
A transformative process is a sustained internal shift that can impacts on how we experience reality, identity, control or power, value or worth and our key roles in the important areas of our lives.
- We can choose a transformative process like taking on a senior executive role or becoming a first-time parent
- Alternatively, a transformative process may feel thrust upon such as in an organisational re-structure or an unanticipated relationship breakdown
- Sometimes two or more changes could be occurring at the same time
- Prioritising and optimising physical, psychological, relational and cognitive functioning are critical
This fluid and ongoing process involves:
- Supportive relationships with self and safe others
- Self-reflection and discernment
- Agency
- Action
- Review
For groups
The creation of a favourable environment for transformation includes:
- Leaders that gently confirm a sense of personal power, unique identity, positive personal value, and a reality that helps make meaning out of the changing environment
- Opportunity for the gradual development of a narrative that creates a sense of continuity between the past, present and anticipations about the future
- Safe enough for the expression of powerful and fundamental emotions
- Conductive to trial-and-error experimentation with meaning and actions
- Living examples of how to thrive in the changed reality