Embrace Your Phoenix

A redefining journey for transitioning professionals.

Regain your identity, enhance self-esteem, and soar higher in your new life.

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MODULE ONE

Awakening the Inner Flame — Setting Intentions & Grounding

DESCRIPTION

Awaken your inner motivation by grounding your actions in clear values and a personal “why.” This module guides you to articulate purpose, establish simple daily routines, and build momentum through small, value-aligned actions. Grounded in evidence-based psychology and transformative coaching, you’ll move from intention to consistent action and begin reshaping your identity around what truly matters.

MODULE TWO

Embracing the Ashes — Validating Emotions & Recognizing Loss

DESCRIPTION

Move through difficult emotions with clarity and compassion. This module helps you name, validate, and regulate tough feelings, honor losses and endings, and practice acceptance without resignation. Grounded in contemporary research on emotion, grief, and self-compassion, you’ll learn to acknowledge what’s true, create space for choice, and begin rebuilding from a place of self-kindness.

MODULE THREE

Building Emotional Resilience — Foundations of Inner Strength

DESCRIPTION

Strengthen your inner base by developing practical resilience skills, leveraging your natural strengths, and establishing keystone habits that support stability and growth. This module blends evidence-based psychology with actionable routines to convert challenges into opportunities for renewal, so you can bounce back faster and sustain momentum through everyday life.

MODULE FOUR

Cultivating Self-Worth & Confidence

DESCRIPTION

Move from self-critique to self-acceptance and empowered growth. This module helps you distinguish unconditional worth from performance-based confidence, deepen self-compassion, and build confidence through deliberate, graded practice. Grounded in evidence-based psychology and practical coaching, you’ll develop a durable sense of self-worth that supports repeated skill-building and courageous action.

MODULE FIVE

Visualizing Possibility — Dreaming & Future Self

DESCRIPTION

Paint a compelling, values-aligned future and turn vision into concrete action. This module guides you to craft a vivid future-self image, translate that vision into 90-day outcomes and lead measures, and anticipate obstacles with evidence-based planning. Grounded in hope theory and mental contrasting, you’ll align imagination with strategic execution to propel lasting growth.

MODULE SIX

Embracing Change & Uncertainty — Courage & Openness

DESCRIPTION

Meet uncertainty with curiosity and action. This module builds psychological flexibility by turning unknowns into learnable experiments, reducing avoidance, and cultivating a willingness to explore. Through practical micro-experiments, cognitive defusion, and progressively courageous steps, you’ll train yourself to respond with openness and resourcefulness in the face of change.

MODULE SEVEN

Navigating Challenges — Developing Inner Grit

DESCRIPTION

Build durable persistence and steady progress in the face of friction. This module equips you with proactive setback planning, emotional regulation strategies, and practical routines to sustain momentum. Grounded in evidence-based grit research and cognitive-behavioral skills, you’ll learn to anticipate challenges, regulate under pressure, and keep moving with composure.

MODULE EIGHT

Solidifying Foundations & Next Steps — Integration and Rebirth

DESCRIPTION

Bring your journey full circle by consolidating identity shifts, sustaining momentum, and stepping boldly into the next horizon. This module helps you review progress, design maintenance and relapse-prevention plans, and mark a ceremonial rebirth that anchors your new self in memory, meaning, and action.

Modules

1 Self Discovery

This is the starting point, you embark on a journey of self-discovery. By identifying your ideas, values, interests, passions, and strengths, you’ll be able to start to map out a meaningful and fulfilling future beyond your current role and identity.

Duration: 3 hours

2 Purpose Discovery

The 'Purpose Discovery' module involves deep, perhaps lengthy, reflection exercises and visualisation techniques to help you discover and validate your new purpose beyond your work identity. You will leave this module feeling empowered and confident about your next phase of life.

Duration: 3 hours

3 Process Development

In this ‘foundation’ module, you’ll start to build a clear roadmap for your journey into the future. Through a clear understanding of goal-setting and action planning, you’ll gain the tools and techniques you need to navigate this significant transition. You may well find this quite different from any change you’ve managed before.

Duration: 3 hours

4

Support Development

This module will guide you in how to prepare yourself for the way forward. You’ll learn to ‘let go’ of the ‘past’ and the need for forgiveness and gratitude to facilitate this. We’ll discover who and what to avoid and how to identify ‘partners in believing’ who’ll support you in what may be a complex period of setting yourself free.

Duration: 3 hours

5 Managing Transition

Building on the previous module, you'll learn stress management techniques, how to deal with anxiety, and resilience-building strategies. You’ll learn to have faith and belief in yourself and transmit this to others. We’ll revisit the work you did in Modules 2 and 3 and fill out any additional detail or clarity. This module prepares you emotionally to manage the way forward seamlessly.

Duration: 3 hours

6 Harvesting Transition

In this module you’ll ‘launch’ your new ‘business’ of being YOU in ‘life-after-work’. You'll learn confidence-building exercises and ongoing action planning techniques to face any future fears and uncertainties. By paying attention to your intention without tension and with the support of your ‘team’ you can be confident your expectations will be met. This module ensures you step into your next phase ‘Powered Up’ with a sense of renewed significance and life force. Perhaps it’s time for a ‘starting party’!

Duration: 3 hours

Who Is It For?

Between 35 and 45, coping with a life transition.
Struggling with a sense of lost identity and decreased self-worth.
Ready to embark on a transformative journey to reignite self-esteem and self-worth.

Who Is It Not For?

Not in the age bracket of 35-45 or facing life transitions.
Firmly anchored in your current identity and career without feelings of loss or confusion.
Not open to the concept of personal and career transformation.

About Rivers of Change Coaching Services

Dr. G. Wayne Jackson is a freelance writer, podcast host, and life coach with over 10 years of coaching experience. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, an MS in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Psychology. Dr. Jackson believes that everything happens for a reason, and we are then charged with finding the lesson and the reason in our experiences. He is passionate about helping clients break free from limiting patterns and successfully transition into a sustained, fulfilling life. His approach emphasizes that discovering the lessons in each experience is key to lasting transformation.