Change and Transition Timeline

How to use it

1. Choose where to begin; before, during, now, and next do not have to appear in order.
2. Add events, gaps, loops, losses, gains, supports, and unknowns only where useful.
3. Move or remove milestones as your understanding changes.
4. Pause, stop, or seek support if the timeline becomes overwhelming.

Reflection prompts

• Where does the path feel uncertain, repeated, or unfinished?
• What support belongs beside the path rather than at its end?

Facilitator guidance

Invite nonlinear mapping and tolerate blank periods, contradictory meanings, repeated transitions, and no future prediction. Do not evaluate progress by forward movement, closure, gratitude, or optimism.

Adaptations & accessibility

• Use movable tokens, a spiral, separate islands, or no time axis.
• Complete only supports and unknowns.
• Allow private writing, drawing, objects, or supported communication.

Review considerations

Enhanced licensed grief-specialist review required before use; assess traumatic change, developmental fit, activation, uncertainty tolerance, and closing support.