Transitions and Belonging: Navigating Change with Purpose

About

Are you navigating a major life transition or supporting others through relocation? Relocation and major life transitions often come with far more than logistical challenges. Behind stress, performance dips, cultural misunderstandings, or difficulty integrating lies a deeper emotional landscape: endings, uncertainty, identity shifts, and a search for belonging.

Transitions and Belonging is a five-day, human-centred, coaching-informed course designed for professionals who support internationals, migrants, refugees, or mobile employees adapting to a new environment. While many practitioners encounter the emotional and relational layers of transition every day, few have structured tools to explore them safely, meaningfully, and with confidence.

This course provides a clear, compassionate framework for understanding the three phases of transition — endings, the neutral zone, and new beginnings — and offers practical coaching tools to guide individuals through each stage. Through experiential exercises, guided reflection, and group dialogue, participants learn how to recognise the emotional dynamics of change, work effectively with themes of loss and identity, and support others with clarity, intention, and cultural sensitivity.

By the end of the program, participants are equipped to help individuals acknowledge endings, navigate uncertainty, rediscover identity, and cultivate a renewed sense of belonging, both personally and professionally. This course is offered in partnership with the Online Coaching Academy.

Summary of the program

Day 1 — Values Integration: Foundations of Identity & Belonging


Day 2 — Navigating the Transition Journey: Mapping Endings, Neutral Zones & Beginnings


Day 3 — Accepting Endings: Rituals, Meaning & Personal Insight


Day 4 — Navigating Uncertainty: Clarity, Direction & Purpose


Day 5 — New Beginnings: Integration, Renewal & Forward Momentum

Course leader

Hamed Noori

Target group

This course is intended for:

HR professionals supporting international or mobile employees
Coaches working with individuals navigating relocation, transition, or cultural adjustment
Social workers supporting migrants, refugees, and newcomer communities
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) professionals working with cultural inclusion, belonging, and integration
Professionals seeking practical tools to address emotional transition in multicultural or international contexts
Master’s level students; highly motivated advanced Bachelor’s students may also be accepted based on their motivation letter

Course aim

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Apply values-based reflection to explore how cultural background, identity, belonging, and personal expectations shape the transition experience.
Identify and explain the emotional patterns that arise during transitions, including endings, uncertainty, and new beginnings.
Assess how loss, identity shifts, and cultural disconnection influence adaptation and well-being.
Support individuals in acknowledging and navigating endings in ways that cultivate emotional clarity, meaning-making, and integration.
Facilitate self-awareness, resilience, and grounding, during periods of uncertainty and ambiguity.
Help individuals reconnect with purpose, integrate insights, and cultivate a renewed sense of belonging as they enter new beginnings.
Use simple, practical coaching interventions that align values with action, nurture belonging in new cultural or life situations or everyday environments.

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