Preface

- Quiet Mutations
- Heroic Accomplishments
- The Border of Strangeness
- Some Price Tags of Change

- The Pathfinders' Legacy
- Permanent and Passing Things
- Three Words for Building a Future
- How Change Happens

- I Need Help Right Now!
- Kids Need Clues to Risks and Responsibilities
- Finding One's Own Way
- Learning to Tell Time
- It Just Keeps Going and Going
- Sifting Wisdom from Change

- Exodus, Wilderness, and Promised Land
- Endings, the Neutral Zone, Beginnings
- Vision, Journey, and Return
- Loss, Grief, and Recovery
- Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress, and Adaptation

- Rediscover Myth and Fantasy
- Remember the Faithkeepers
- Learn to Read Again
- Be Open to the Unexpected
- Use Common Sense
- Find Internal Connections

- The Inner Meaning of Home
- Losing the Sense of "Inner Home"
- The Dynamics of Inner Home Loss
- The Search for Inner Home

- Some Assumptions about Family Systems
- A Story That Points the Way
- The Use of Metaphors as Signposts
- Helping Persons Find "Inner Home"
- No Place Like Home

- The Courage to Go Forward
- Mastering Transitions
- Facing Reality
- Marking Life's Changes
- The Gift of Tomorrow

- The World of Ritual Experience
- How Rituals Embrace Change
- Rituals of Sustainability
- Rituals of Recognition
- Rituals of Welcome
- Rituals of Initiation
- Suggested Readings