We live in a world which demands enormous flexibility and wide range of distinct skill sets, competences and styles to be able to participate in the broad spectrum of activities typical of life in a modern technological society. That society often appears as a disjoint set of quite different contexts in which the only common factor is our own presence and participation. The number of different jobs we will typically hold in a lifetime is 5 or 6 times the number that our parents’ generation held. We move with startling speed from a context in which we play the business person to the one in which we are a parent or a child of our families. With the arrival of a mobile communications devices - PA’s, cell phones, Blackberry;s -  we are confronted with the challenge of being able to shift from role to role instantly within the same physical context – in the middle of a birthday party, the cell phone demands that we transport ourselves to a displaced context in which work demands are primary.

This seminar is a pure applications seminar in which we will first explore what these demands are and how to make decisions as to which of these are acceptable and appropriate for the quality of life that we wish to experience. Once we have determined which are acceptable, we will address the question of how to develop patterning and effective personal rituals for being able to make transitions, ranging from the instantaneous to those transitions for longer term goals (change of positions within our workspace, change of profession, change of relationship,…)