Integration & Becoming

Integration & Becoming concerns our capacity to change without losing continuity with ourselves. Human lives contain endings, injuries, discoveries and transitions that cannot simply be reversed. We grieve. We repair. We reorganize.

The five capacities

Grief

Grief is the capacity to remain in relationship with loss.

Healing

Healing is the capacity for repair, reconnection and adaptive recovery after injury, rupture or prolonged strain.

Transformation

Transformation is the capacity to reorganize identity, meaning or behavior when an existing configuration can no longer adequately hold reality.

Gratitude

Gratitude is the capacity to recognize benefit, beauty, contribution and support without requiring life to be uncomplicated first.

Home

Home is the capacity for self-belonging.

How these capacities work together

The capacities do not operate in isolation. These relationship entries describe important feedback loops, tensions and forms of mutual support between them.