New Beginning Tools
When we reach a New Beginning, we often feel a sense of peace and comfort. We feel confident about who we are and where we are going. Still, our confidence may waver as we test our new identities, behaviors, or relationships. Here are a few tools to help ensure and sustain a New Beginning:

Celebrate Your New Identity
Find concrete ways to mark the transition that you have made. Expressly articulating who you are, what you’ve accomplished, and where you want to go can help keep you on track. 

Letter of Recognition
New Beginning Ceremony

Shore up Social Support
Just as in Endings and in the Neutral Zone, finding people who can support you in your New Beginning is key. These people should be able to reinforce your new identity, help you celebrate your transition, and stand by you as your New Beginning gets tested. 

Relationship Check

Set Goals
The best way to reinforce a new identity is to put your new values, behaviors and attitudes into action. Look over some of the goals you may have developed during your time in the Neutral Zone and lay out a specific plan for achieving them. Start small and use your successes to build toward larger goals. 

Action Plan

Tune Into Transitions
Music can be a powerful way of teaching Transitions concepts, particularly to youth. Through creative lyrics, rhythms, and key changes, songs allow you to absorb ideas in a way that words alone cannot. Identifying your own Transitions songs is a good way to assess understanding of the framework.

Below is a song that speaks specifically to New Beginnings: 
“Unwritten” Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten