SEASON 4 EPISODE 3
February 15th at 10 AM PT/ 7 PM CET
It’s Time to Prepare Your Life Transitions with Gina Donaldson
THE CONTEXT
During our life we are faced with innumerable transformation which we have to undergo if we are prepared for them or not. They just seem to happen to us and, most of the time, we navigate our way through them in uncertainty and distress. If we knew how to go through transition times, if we had someone to guide us, we could handle the challenges with far less pain and psychological suffering. From childhood on we were taught that we have to get by somehow, get out of it ourselves. Some of us are successful, others not. They develop illnesses, are involved in accidents and what not. Hopefully they survive.
GINA´S INTRO TO THE SHOW
Sooner or later we all have to face the final good-bye. We use the same tactics here: ignore the fact of our mortality and hope to outsmart God. That’s why so many of us are resistant to preparing for that event with the shallow excuse: “I don’t care, I won’t be there anymore”. But others are and they have to deal with what you leave behind, your relationships, your belongings, your support and wisdom and all what you had been. Why are we so reluctant to prepare for that?
Gina Donaldson has specialised in guiding people for all types of change in human life and especially she encourages us to be get advice for the last transformation which we will face one day – hopefully not sooner, but later.
ABOUT GINA DONALDSON
I am an accredited expert in Change Management with over thirty years of professional personnel administration, business consulting and life experience. My life has always been about transformation. I have served in the Royal Canadian Navy at a time when women were not treated equally and there were very few senior officer role models. I was a trailblazer and given great opportunities to guide organizational change. After the Navy, I was the first non-technical Manager of a Diagnostic Imaging department in Canada and later also Cardiology. My role was to create the first shared service for both a children’s and maternity hospital. My last career was as a Change Management consultant with both Fujitsu and IBM. I have training in critical incident response, counselling and suicide intervention. I am also a Reiki Master.
My Service – I started creating Personal Passage Planning in Jan 2016 and formally launched it in Sept 2016. My inspiration for creating Personal Passage Planning arose from seeing the aftermath that followed the death of a parent, spouse and a child. Friends and family were deeply grieving and yet there was so much work to be done. Even if they were the executor, they were in no way prepared for their role or the process. They also had to search the home for required documentation and were frustrated by all those passwords on cell phones and computers. Why? Well, in the time leading up to death they continued to hope for a better outcome and then were overwhelmed by the reality that the end was drawing near. They couldn’t bring themselves to have the important conversations about what needed to be done and what comes next. I bring a systematic and highly tailored approach to change. My passion is to enable people to deal with change through a thorough, compassionate and respectful approach that is worthy of their trust. I guide my clients in understanding the importance of preparing for life events and creating a personalized “Life Log”. Together we create this go-to resource contains key documentation, information and client instructions so that they and those they entrust “Know Your Way”. Clients learn why it is up to them to take responsibility to “Know Your Way” and the importance of lessening the burden on others and loved ones who may step in to assist them or find themselves left behind. My key areas of interest and professional development are ageing and grief
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