Coaching Notes
Cycle of Change Model
The
model below represents a typical process we all go through as we begin
to make a decision to change something in our personal or professional
lives.
Source: Prochaska and Di Clemente (1982)
Cycle of Renewal
The Hudson Institute
The Hudson Institute
Mastering Self-Renewal & 10 Life Skills
Managing
the change cycle is a self-renewing process. It empowers adults to be
self-confident and generative. Generativity is defined by Hardin (1992)
as a process whereby we learn to follow our deeper interests and
longings and bring about change. It helps us to "avoid the dangers of
self-absorption and stagnation because we learn to live in new ways
that expand our horizons.
Frederic Hudson (1991) presents 10 Life Skills
for managing the change cycle, pointing out that "each skill has a time
in the cycle when it performs a critical function but that all ten are
important at all times because to some degree parts of our lives are
simultaneously at various places in the cycle".
10 Life Skills for Sustaining Purpose and Passion in the Renewal Cycle:
- Visioning or dreaming the plan - The dream or vision is the "driving force for the life structure, a source of passion and values. The plan is the plot for making the dream happen.
- Launching - Launching puts the plan to action; it requires "commitment and personal mission".
- Plateauing - Plateauing is the "art of sustaining a successful life structure.... It is knowing how to keep enriching the dream/plan for as long as it makes sense to do so".
- Managing the doldrums - This requires coming to terms with "decline, negative emotions, and feeling trapped in an increasingly dysfunctional life structure”.
- Sorting things out - Choosing "what to keep, what to eliminate or change, what to add, and how to proceed into a revitalized life structure" is the task of this step of the change cycle.
- Ending a life structure - This requires an ability to say farewell with gratitude and clarity, which frees you to consider your next options.
- Restructuring - This minitransition can be used if the life structure could be improved through some specific changes.
- Cocooning - The transition into a new life structure requires "turning inward to take stock, to find your own basic values, and to disengage emotionally and mentally from the former life structure".
- Self-renewal - Following successful cocooning, this step involves a rebirth of self-esteem, a reevaluation of core issues and beliefs, and the recovery of hope and purpose.
- Experimenting - Creativity, learning, risk taking, and networking give one a sense of purpose and power in creating a new life structure.
Living from the Inside Out, Cycle of Renewal, Eric Klein
John Gardner on Personal Renewal
Personal Renewal Speech, November 10, 1990, Delivered to McKinsey & Company, Phoenix, AZ.
“Meaning
is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the
prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your
life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and
loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to
you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you
believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values
for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are
there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique
pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and
meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or
failure is of less account."
“Some men and women make the world better just by being the kind of people they are.”
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