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title: "When Change Is Decided for You: A Free Guide | Hudson"
description: "A free guide for the first weeks after a layoff or restructure, or when you feel stuck: make sense of where you are and take one small step forward."
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A free guide

# When change is decided *for you*

A gentle guide for the first weeks after a layoff or restructure, or for anyone who feels stuck and knows something has to change.

6 pages · fill it in on screen or print it

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## Get the guide

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You don’t need a plan yet

## That change wasn’t your choice. Finding your footing can be.

When work ends or shifts without your say, it’s normal to feel angry, unsettled, or numb, and to feel pressure to have the next step figured out by Monday.

This guide is for the time before that. It helps you make sense of where you are, take care of what matters this week, and find one small way to start moving again.

## What’s inside

01

### Room for the anger

Why anger, grief, and shock are normal after an ending, and healthy ways to let them out. What happened isn’t a verdict on your worth.

02

### Where am I right now?

Hudson’s Cycle of Renewal in plain language: four phases, what each one feels like, and what tends to help there.

03

### The first two weeks

What to handle first, how to find a daily anchor, and how to reach out for information rather than a job.

04

### Your pages

Reflection questions and one small experiment to try in the next two weeks. Type right into the PDF, or print it.

Built on the Cycle of Renewal, the model Hudson Institute of Coaching has used for 40 years to help people through life’s transitions.

Free live webinar · December 2

## Laid Off, Restructured, or Stuck?

Finding your footing in a transition you didn’t plan, with Pam McLean, PhD, and Keith Naber.

Wednesday, Dec 2 · 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern · Live on Zoom

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## The next chapter is *yours.*

You don’t have to write it all at once.

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