Transformation

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What this means…

Transformation is a ‘qualitative shift of being’ manifested in external and internal ways.

It is a break with the past.

It is the unpredicted shift to an altogether new level of operating.

It is a move to a higher order of functioning that incorporates and integrates previous functions and will be manifested in changes in organisation, structure, function and process and whilst identifiable through these differences and modifications, it is actually contained in none of them.

It is beyond singular manifestation and is only apparent as a result of appearing in all of them.

Whilst conversion experiences are obvious examples of a transformative change – not always for the good – there are other changes that take place at momentous points in a person’s life that amount to a transformation.

Perhaps the one most common and most turbulent is the crisis of mid-life (which often comes earlier in our present day period of accelerated change).