Navigating Career Transition

Through the identity layer of the change: recognizing the scenario that is being replayed, feeling where it is held in the body, and practicing a new relationship to oneself, alongside the practical logistics of the move.

A framework from career counseling research identifying four factors that shape how well someone navigates a transition: Situation, Self, Support, and Strategies.

Anticipated transitions, which are expected; unanticipated transitions, which arrive without warning; and non-events, transitions that were expected but never occurred — each with its own dynamics.

Situation covers the circumstances, timing, and whether the change was chosen or forced; Self covers internal resilience and coping resources; Support covers relationships, finances, and institutional resources; Strategies are the specific actions taken to manage the change.

It applies to both — the framework was developed across the full range of transitions, from chosen moves to forced ones, and the four factors operate in each case.

A process — the framework describes a transition as unfolding over time, with a period of adjustment during which the new role slowly becomes familiar.

By assessing each of the four factors separately, it locates where the real difficulty sits — a Support gap and a Self gap call for different responses than a Strategy gap.

Partially — it names the psychological dimension of transition. Maya's work extends this layer further, into the body and the life scenarios underneath the change.

That uncertainty is normal, and it's often a Self or Strategies gap rather than a sign something is wrong — the framework treats not-knowing as information to work with, not a problem to solve immediately. Body-based practice can help here too: often the body carries a clearer sense of what to move toward, or away from, than the planning mind does on its own.

Yes — career counseling and coaching can assess the four factors well, and body-based practice can be held alongside that work, addressing the identity layer.

Assess the four S's honestly, name what is ending, and begin one small daily practice that helps the body register the change — a short session in place of a major rearrangement.

Because every ending and beginning is a small cycle of its own — and a cycle that was left unfinished tends to be replayed in the next job, the next role, the next chapter.

Longer than the logistics — the body and the sense of self adjust on their own rhythm, and that rhythm deserves respect on its own timeline.

Yes — many people use both together: counseling for the map and the practical decisions, and Maya's practice for the layer of identity and body beneath them.

The Basics of Life Level 1 program works directly with life scripts, self-worth, and the body; her free guided meditations on YouTube offer an accessible starting point for the body-based attention work.