Grief & Life Transitions · GR-05
Change and Transition Timeline
Organize changes, losses, gains, supports, and unknowns without requiring a straight path or positive ending.
Clinician-created · specialist review requiredFor clinician-facilitated use
This is a professional resource, not a child-facing online service. A licensed clinician or other qualified adult must determine suitability, explain and adapt the activity, and supervise its use. Do not direct a child to access this webpage independently or enter client information.
The full-resolution WebP includes print-safe margins and should be downloaded by an adult professional. Read the guidance below before using the page.
How to use it
- Choose where to begin; before, during, now, and next do not have to appear in order.
- Add events, gaps, loops, losses, gains, supports, and unknowns only where useful.
- Move or remove milestones as your understanding changes.
- Pause, stop, or seek support if the timeline becomes overwhelming.
Reflection prompts
- Where does the path feel uncertain, repeated, or unfinished?
- What support belongs beside the path rather than at its end?
Facilitator guidance
Invite nonlinear mapping and tolerate blank periods, contradictory meanings, repeated transitions, and no future prediction. Do not evaluate progress by forward movement, closure, gratitude, or optimism.
Adaptations & accessibility
- Use movable tokens, a spiral, separate islands, or no time axis.
- Complete only supports and unknowns.
- Allow private writing, drawing, objects, or supported communication.
Professional-use review
Enhanced licensed grief-specialist review required before use; assess traumatic change, developmental fit, activation, uncertainty tolerance, and closing support.
