Exploring Transitions: When Curiosity Enlightens the Cat
What if transitions, instead of being chaotic, could be intentional, supported, and strategic?
The Mopane Leadership Program’s 2024 Transition Grants explored exactly this, partnering with three diverse actors, Vessel Is Me, Queen’s Cottage, and Makerere University’s School of Psychology, to map out how grief, personal pivots, and institutional realignments can become opportunities for resilience and renewal. From developing a healing-centered transition toolkit, to guiding a founder through reimagined baton-passing, to crafting a first-ever research agenda, these journeys showed that while change is inevitable, chaos is not. With structure, support, and shared light, transitions become pathways of possibility and blueprints for others navigating similar terrain.