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Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, 2nd Edition - Updated and Expanded Audio CD – CD, Aug. 8 2011

by William Bridges (Author), Sean Pratt (Narrator)

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First published in 1980, Transitions was the first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition. Recently named one of the 50 most important self-help books of all time, Transitions remains the essential guide for coping with the inevitable changes in life. Transitions takes listeners step-by-step through the three perilous stages of any life passage, explaining how each stage can be understood and embraced. Offering an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap for successfully navigating change and moving into a hopeful future, the process is ever relevant and applicable today. Among the subjects covered: Endings. Every transition begins with one. Too often we misunderstand them, confuse them with finality: "That's it, all over, finished!" Yet how we recognize endings is key to how we can begin anew. The Neutral Zone. The second hurdle of transitions: a seemingly unproductive "time-out" when we feel disconnected from people and things in the past and emotionally unconnected to the present. Yet the neutral zone is really a time of reorientation. How can we make the most of it? The New Beginning. In transitions, we come to beginnings only at the end, when we launch new activities. To make a successful new beginning requires more than simply persevering. It requires an understanding of external signs and inner signals that point the way to the future.

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Gildan Media
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Aug. 8 2011
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16.26 x 2.79 x 13.46 cm
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1596591404
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978-1596591400
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gildan Media; Unabridged edition (Aug. 8 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1596591404
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1596591400
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 79 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.26 x 2.79 x 13.46 cm

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William Bridges is an internationally known speaker, author, and consultant who advises individuals and organizations in how to deal productively with change. His ten books include an expanded third edition of his best-seller, Managing Transitions (2009), and the updated second edition of Transitions (2004), which together have sold over one million copies. Before that he published The Way of Transition (2000), a partly autobiographical study of coming to terms with profound changes in his own life and transforming them into times of self-renewal. He published Creating You & Co., a handbook for creating a work-life that capitalizes on today's frequent and disruptive changes, and the ground-breaking Jobshift.

For three decades, he has guided thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations through the maze of the transitions that accompany change. He focuses on the Transition, or psychological reorientation, people must go through to come to terms with changes in their lives. His three-phase model of Endings, Neutral Zone and New Beginnings is widely known. The professional seminars that he launched in 1988 have now certified more than 5,000 managers, trainers and consultants worldwide to conduct Transition Management programs. His later work has focused on bringing the principles of Transition Management into the non-profit world. He has been a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and corporate meetings in the United States and abroad.

Educated originally in the humanities at Harvard, Columbia, and Brown Universities, he was (until his own career change in 1974) a professor of American Literature at Mills College, Oakland, CA. He is a past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. The Wall Street Journal listed him as one of the top ten independent executive development presenters in America.

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Moodfood21

Still very relevant for me in 2022

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 13, 2022

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I was actually looking up the details of this book to email a friends.

I was then reminded I originally bought this book in 2011 while in a program. I really resonated and appreciate Bridge's model of stages involved in change. This stayed with me since 2011. I found myself referencing these stages a few months ago as I recognized what was happening in my life now.

It is so true new beginnings can only truly start after something in our life is coming to an end. This ending needs to be acknowledged and possibly grieved for me to truly benefit and gain the most positive results from a new beginning. I personally need to do this so I am not continually doubting myself once I have made a decision to make any kind of change big or small. Also I have become more aware if I stay in limbo for too long. It is me getting stuck in a neutral zone and my life is becoming too stagnant for too long.

There are even more gems in the book with the real life examples of how others manage or did not manage transitional changes in their live. I am glad this book is still around as it is very relevant for anyone at any stage of life both personally and professionally. It can support anyone in recognizing many of the underlying layers we do not always consider are relevant during transitional changes.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 24, 2019

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I'm a huge fan of Bill Bridges. This book is a primer for all of life's changes and transitions, the large and small ones. There are three phases: endings, neutral zone and then beginnings to any transition or change in life. It's very hard to be in the neutral zone and it is absolutely essential. Rushing the process, as Bridges says, means we don't fully make sense of the change or transition and are bound to repeat the same situation or stay stuck. Of all my books, if my house was on fire and I had time to only take one book with me it would be this one.

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Sherry Cooper

Remarkable Book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 23, 2013

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I highly recommend this book for anyone who is experiencing a major life event: the loss of a job, a promotion, a divorce, retirement, a move, a new baby, etc. It helps to prepare you to understand the three phases of transition: the ending, the in-between nothingness, and the new beginning. For me, it gave me permission to both completely disconnect from the old situation and the 'me' it created, and to take time to reflect without jumping into something new. That in-between time is essential to gradually discovering what I really want in the next phase of my life--to develop the new me. Too many times in the past, I had a new beginning before I really let go of the past and bypassed the period of solo reflection entirely. Reading this book helped me to understand why the full process leads to profound results and shortcuts can be disastrous.

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Briananda

Very good info

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 16, 2016

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Read this book a number of times, and it really helped me towards "making sense of life's changes".

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The right book at the right time

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 7, 2019

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I didn't understand why the things knew to do were no longer working. I was lost and felt helpless. This book helped me understand my life in an entirely new and empowering way. If you have harbor expect change in your life, this book is a valuable companion.

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A Lesson we all need

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 24, 2016

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Transitions are welcomed and resented. When we welcome a transition, very seldom do we look for help; but when it surprises us or causes us to be dumbfounded, help is the very thing we need. I highlighted so much of the book after having moved through most of my own 'neutral zone.' I recommend the book especially for those hurt or lost in life, because that stage can happen to anyone.

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retcompcons

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 1, 2012

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This book, although not new, would be helpful for anyone who is going through one of life's transition periods - divorce, retirement, changes in the workplace, changes in family structure, or a move. It helps us understand that we all go through many transitions in our lives, some more traumatic than others, and we have to allow ourselves to go through this period in an informed manner - allow us to grieve, be able to let go and then to endorse the new situation. Very helpful.

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Minky

Worthwhile read throughout the stages of adulthood

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 29, 2018

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I read this book 40 years ago and it appeared on my daughter's reading list for a course on adulthood so I decided to re-read it. It certainly resonated with me as I am now a senior. It gave me a lot of food for thought on my past and helped me gain some new insights

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Steve H

Certainly Helped Me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 22, 2018

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After a long, long military career I was really struggling with the changes in my life that leaving had brought about. I tried a few things but nothing really seemed to make sense - a sort of 'lost' feeling - and then, as so often happens, the right thing came along. In this case, a friend recommended this book (and I have bought him beer to thank him!). This is neither a book of techniques for finding your way nor a self-help manual in the typical sense, but as I read it I kept recognising the emotions the author described, and much of what he has written resonated at a very personal level. I'm not suggesting that all my confusion magically went away, but it certainly helped me understand and thus feel better about what I was/am experiencing.

I read Bridges as making 2 main points: (1) Change happens to everyone, all the time, but that's just logistics - we move house, change cars and so forth. Transition, however, is psychological, and that's why it's hard, and that's what this book is about. (2) Before a new beginning there has to be an ending. Bridges' model is: ending, neutral zone, new beginning, and his proposition is that people in a transition need to recognise and accept the endings before we can make a good new beginning. He talks about 5 'D's - disengagement, disorientation, dismantling, dis-identification, disenchantment and disorientation, which seemed to me be various facets of letting go, and essential for good endings.

If you are struggling with changes in your life and finding it confusing then I empathise - we are fellow travellers - and want to understand (as opposed to being told what to do) then you might find this book useful and interesting: I certainly did, which is why I've just bought another of his books.

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eV_Lon

Simply life changing...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 25, 2016

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I wish I had read it 10 months earlier when I started being challenged with my transition and I could not explain why I was feeling a certain way with all these changes whilst everyone around me -thankfully except from my mentor at work, who suggested this book- were telling me I should just accept the changes, get up and move on...
After reading the book it was as if I was reading what was REALLY going through my mind the last few months... Things finally started making sense, I accepted that this processes "Endings - Neutral Zone - New beginnings" are natural to us and by me fighting to speed up the process I was only setting up myself to fail in the future and depriving me of all the learnings...
I love this book! I have recommended it to many of my friends. It will change the way you think and open up your mind, forever

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Judi K

Transitions can be tricky to navigate

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 6, 2020

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Excellent book content. Makes sense of changes and chapters in our lives and the importance of transition in relation to endings and new beginnings, especially the neutral zone between them which from experience can be a difficult but necessary link between them.

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peewit

This a useful book to have at your side

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 13, 2014

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I am currently undergoing a very painful period in my life and this book has been a rock to hold onto when the big waves really hit. Some of the examples the author uses may not be appropriate to you - but the underlying messages are always useful.
A great comfort - tests your intelligence, realistic - the language used is accessible - no useless 'motivational' messages just sticks to the point.
Recommended

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Sharon Eden

How To Master Change Instead Of It Running You!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 13, 2008

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Using a simple yet powerful formula, William Bridges takes you successfully through the process of change via Endings, The Neutral Zone and, finally, New Beginnings. Pulling no punches this is not a happy clappy remedy but a straight-forward grasp your life with two hands approach to taking charge of your life instead of being its victim. Easily readable, digestible and do-able!

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