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We went to a “Debriefing and Renewal” seminar (“DAR”) in September, run by an organization called Mission Training International. One of the things we learned about were the phases of transition.
One metaphor for transition is crossing a bridge. The land on either side is labelled “settled”. Beginning to cross the bridge is “unsettling”; ending the crossing is “resettling”. In between is “chaos”.
Another metaphor for transition is repotting a plant. The plant starts and ends nice and healthy, but looks a bit ragged during the process of repotting.
The weeks around when we attended DAR, we were solidly in the chaos stage. Every day one or the other of us would have trouble finding motivation to do whatever we needed to do that day. Now that we’ve moved, it seems we’re pretty comfortably into the resettling stage. Oshawa is a new city for us; we’ve never lived here, and we don’t really know anyone yet. We each need different things to feel settled, and we’re slowly finding those things. It’s nice to be (mostly) done with chaos.
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