Problem
The Five D's of Endings (three hundreds words or more)
Return the the chapter in Bridges' book Transitions on endings. Of the 5 D's of endings, which one resonates most? Why?
When you have experienced the ending stage of a transition what did you have to accept or let go of?
A. Disorientation - lost, confused, don't know where I am, which way is up or down, loss of self and plans for the future
B. Disengagement - we need to be separated from familiar places, from our systems at times of inner transitions
C. Dismantling - as in dismantling old behaviors, habits, and practices that make you feel like yourself, an untangling of the old dynamics
D. Disidentification - In breaking old connections to the world and taking apart the internal structures required by those connections, you also lose your old way of defining yourself. The loss of sameness and continuity can be a source of angst.
E. Disenchantment - The discovery that in some sense, one's world is no longer real. Elements of one's worldview that appeared solid and true is not only disrupted but revealed as an illusion. These elements were sufficient for the old reality, but not the new.