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Square Four of the Change Cycle: The Promised Land

by dmackinnon | Mar 5, 2014 | Coaching Tools, Healing Choices

Square Four of Martha Beck’s change cycle is where all your hard work of creating a new life, a new identity, pays off. The learning curve starts to level off and you pretty much know what’s going on and where you’re headed. Your life (or whatever part of it is...

Square Three of the Change Cycle: The Hero’s Saga

by dmackinnon | Feb 26, 2014 | Coaching Tools, Healing Choices

When you are in the midst of a major change or transition in your life, at some point you have to stop making plans, dreaming, making lists, and goal-setting; you have to actually do something! When you do something in service to your new identity or life, now you are...

Square Two of the Change Cycle: Dreaming and Scheming

by dmackinnon | Feb 5, 2014 | Coaching Tools, Healing Choices

The hallmark of Square Two is hope: You start to think maybe things can be different. You start to see, even though your old life is gone, you can have something different and more satisfying than what you left behind. At the beginning of Square Two, hope comes...

Square One of The Change Cycle: Death and Rebirth

by dmackinnon | Jan 29, 2014 | Coaching Tools, Healing Choices

Over the years, I’ve worked with many clients as they made their way through the change cycle. Some of them called me because they’d been thrown into Square One and needed help navigating their way through Square One and on to Square Two. Other clients called me when...

The Change Cycle is Made Up of Squares?

by dmackinnon | Jan 22, 2014 | Coaching Tools, Healing Choices

The change cycle, which Martha Beck explains in detail in her book Finding Your Own North Star, is about the cycle of change we all go through every time we have a major transition in our lives. It’s a circle, just like the circle of life, even though the four...
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