Crises & upheavals as an opportunity: rituals of transition - learning from the crisis

For many, a crisis is difficult and insurmountable. Experience shows, however, that this is often a transitional ritual, at the end of which there is a new beginning, just like an initiation rite.

Crisis as a powerful means of transformation

Brigitte Breternitz says: Standing at the point of no longer knowing which step should or could be the next given the economic situation meant the beginning of the really big crisis for me. I simply thought my work was pointless. Self-doubt and helplessness soon became the main feeling I had every day at work. Despite my almost endless Energy I was powerless.

In his book Das Innere Land, which is well worth reading, Joachim Faulstich speaks in detail of such experiences, which he describes as “a powerful means of Transformation" designated.

The classic among the books dealing with such processes is undoubtedly Les rites de passage by Arnold van Gennep.

Initiation rituals on the way to growing up

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The basic work of cultural anthropology, published in German as “Transitional Rites”, describes the basic scheme of initiations in a way that can also be applied to professional and personal crises.

Initiation rituals, such as the admission of young people to the status of adults, have followed a three-part scheme since ancient times: separation from the old, change within the uncertainty “between the worlds” and finally arriving at the new.

Crisis pattern: farewell, uncertainty, new beginning

Exactly this Pattern we can observe in crises: A time of farewell to the past is followed by a phase of uncertainty in which no fixed sizes can be established Orientation .

If you live through this section with all your fears and hopes, at some point a light will appear on the horizon: a new one Idea, new offers, new ways of further action.

Archaic Initiation

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The crisis has ended, a new section is attracting and celebrating - and as has always been customary in the initiation rituals. How long the individual phases last is very different.

In old traditions, in which the young people are banished from the village on a set day, perhaps subjected to tests of their bravery and finally brought back to the village after a period of hardship as adults, such processes are temporal clear outlined.

There is no schedule in life

On the other hand, if it is life that imposes such times of change on us, there are no schedules. I've known cases of a crisis, even if it's from one Coaching accompanied by years of failure.

Eventually, however, success came, and then bigger than ever dreamed of. He seemed to have matured in secret and probably had to clear away a lot of the no longer coherent old before he could emerge radiantly. Mostly, however, go through the People - especially if they get professional support - the three phases a little faster.

Pause on the way forward

I personally know crises very well. My life is also characterized by apparent mistakes, deconstructions and decisions that could be described as mistakes afterwards. What have I learned from it? Well, many mistakes are “right mistakes” that I made not against my better knowledge, but in the current certainty of doing the best.

Again and again, the dissatisfaction, slumps and phases of pain made me pause, reconsider myself and my will and abilities, redefine the route and after a breather with fresh Courage to break up again.

Excellent with breaks

Today, like many of my clients, I describe myself as “broken”. I am thankful for these phases that have made me a significant part of who I am today.

In addition, I learn that others can take courage from it, one Ms. to meet those who approach crises positively and who have mastered them themselves.

Away from the crisis

Since I understand my coaching approach as a way out of the crisis, it is absolutely necessary that I myself know how it feels to be in crisis.

With the deeper Background around the crisis, which I have outlined a little here, it is certainly easier to go through such a challenging phase.

Crisis as an opportunity - also in practical implementation

Even if you already have the knowledge of the nature of crises and you have at least theoretically learned to understand them as an opportunity - while you experience them, this knowledge seems abstract and it is good to read about it again and then, for example, to realize that it always the three phases described by van Gennep.

With the Methods of DreamGuidance they can not only be accelerated, but above all experienced in a depth that makes a more powerful and personally coherent restart possible.

Do not wait for the crisis, get started!

And good news: if you are doing well at least, you do not have to wait for a crisis to start a great change.

Rather, you might already have nagging dissatisfaction, too much time pressure, Stress or take the longings glowing quietly in your heart as a sufficient reason for an active reorientation.

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