All significant transitional experiences, like becoming parents, follow a predictable three-part process. Something comes to an end. There is an in-between season marked by disorientation, disidentification, and disengagement. Finally, and often after a very long and painful struggle, something new emerges. Separation: A period in which a person, group, or social order is stripped of the identity and status that previously defined it. Liminal Period: A disorienting period of non-structure or anti-structure that opens new possibilities no longer based on old status or power hierarchies. New
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