Stories are Maps for Liminality

Whether it's layoffs, restructuring, or shifting expectations and demands, so many of us are unsettled right now as the foundations that surround us reshape themselves. I've been deep in this kind of liminal space myself this year, and had the good fortune to process it through thinking and collaborating with Wesley Cate on this essay in his publication Creatio Journal.

In it we talk about the invitation that lies inside these unsettling moments, and how they are often the threshold, an open door to our next great journey. I'm curious if this resonates with where you are now, or where you have been.

"We often enter liminality through what Jack Mezirow called a disorienting dilemma: an event that cracks the lens through which we’ve made sense of our lives. These disruptions might be personal like loss, transition, failure or collective like war or a pandemic. When the roles, beliefs, and structures we relied on no longer hold, we feel blinded, stuck, or lost.

As much as these thresholds are disorienting, they are also invitations. They ask us to look honestly at how we arrived at this place between places, to surface realizations that were hidden from us before, and to build a new map forward that is wiser and truer."

Read the rest here:

https://creatiojournal.substack.com/p/stories-are-a-map-for-liminality