In our initial training as coaches and counselors, we typically focus on learning how to support clients as they move through personal changes and transitions.

Although every change has uncertainty baked into the journey, the level of uncertainty has intensified both personally and collectively in the last decade. Now, more and more large-scale collective events are touching our clients' lives directly and indirectly at a faster rate with more intensity. Shifts in media make us more aware than ever before of the array of changes happening in our own regions and around the world in real time.

To support our clients in this new era of change, we must update our knowledge, understanding, and training to be ready to pivot at a moment's notice if our clients' circumstances change unexpectedly.

During this informational call/conversation, we'll explore:

• How the scope of our work as coaches and therapists must expand as we support our clients in this era of increasing change and uncertainty.
• Why it's important to invite our clients to look beyond their presenting transition to discover what else is impacting their experience.
• Why it's essential to acknowledge the way your client's experiences are a combination of their own transitions and the ripple effects of the changes their loved ones and the collective are experiencing.
• How the power of collective transitions impact our clients directly, vicariously, and indirectly.
• How we need to be prepared to pivot the focus of our professional support when life happens unexpectedly for our clients.
• Why it's essential to tend to ourselves when events -- both personal and collective -- rock us to our core.

Hosted by ILCT Faculty Member, Carol McClelland Fields

Tuesday, July 7th at 3:00 PM (Eastern)

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Want more information about change, transitions, and uncertainty?

Check out Carol's classes, Coaching Clients in Uncertain Times and Seasons of Change

Carol McClelland Fields, PhD, BCC, an award-winning author and ILCT Faculty Member since 2004, has been fascinated by how our culture navigates personal, professional, and collective transitions since the beginning of her career. She relies on her intuition, observation skills, coaching work, and personal experiences to notice and articulate emerging trends about change and how those trends impact our lives.

Carol created the Seasons of Change model of transition in 1992 after navigating a series of significant transitions in her personal and professional life. This nature-inspired model has provided the central theme of her work ever since. She's shared this work with others in transition through speaking, workshops, one-on-one client work, retreats, articles, and her books. Although her original book, The Seasons of Change: Using Nature's Wisdom to Navigate Life's Inevitable Ups and Downs (1998) is now out of print, Carol is actively updating her work to reflect all that she has discovered about change, transition, and uncertainty since the book came out. She shares her recent discoveries in her new podcast, ReEnvisioning Change, which begins Summer of 2026.