You're not quite on either side...
You might be moving towards something. You might be moving away from something. Often, you're doing both, which can feel confusing and hard to explain.
You might also not be the person you were, and you may not yet know who you are in the next phase.
Transitions bring uncertainty by design. Something has been chosen, or something has happened, or time has passed and now you're in the space between what was and what's next. The future is unknown. That's the nature of it. But most people treat uncertainty as something to push through, manage, ignore or outrun.
So they rush. Or stagnate. Or they keep one hand on where they were while trying to reach the other side.
You can't get anywhere like that. But it's a very human thing to try.
⏳ INTACT: Navigating Transitions Workshop: Friday, July 10, 2026
A Catapult Conversations Program. Bookings close: July 7, 2026
Who is the INTACT workshop for?
You might be leaving something behind. You might be stepping towards something new.
You might have one leg in two camps and not sure how to choose.
You feel you have competing priorities
If you know something is moving even if you don't have a name for it.
If you struggle with daily movement between all you activities, roles and responsibilities.
If you have a new role, the end of one, or a change in direction.
Changing relationships such as a new or ending relationship, a chapter of parenting
If you've developed into a new version of yourself that no longer seems to fit well in your world.
If there's a change that's difficult to explain to other people, based on identity than circumstances.
For those prepared to take a day to be deliberate about their transition situation.
Whatever is changing: you're ready to look at how to find yourself on the other side INTACT.
Catapult Conversations workshops are not designed to add more content for you to implement later. We implement straight away! As a small group, we will work through real material on the day and you leave with tools already in place.
The title of this workshop is not random.
The aim is not to tie everything up with a bow. Transitions can't be resolved, only moved through. They are inherently messy.
The aim is to arrive intact.
On the day, you'll be working with Dr Katy Abbott who has been supporting people through transitions for decades: someone who can see what's underneath, ask the right questions, and illuminate pathways for your specific situation.
INTACT is:
A small-group full-day workshop where we find a pathway through your unique transitions so you can arrive intact.
Transitions are only clunky when we lack the right tools and considerations. And most of us don't because nobody teaches us this. We find ourselves in a transition and are expected to navigate it on instinct. Sometimes that works. Often it doesn't, and we feel the cost of that later.
We look at the DNA of transitions, from the inside; often, uncertainty, loss, relief and trepidation. We acknowledge the messy nature of transition and how to handle it.
We look at the human instinct in transitions and how this is working (or not) for you and we work with what it actually takes to move through (your) transition successfully, not just come out the other side but come out the other side still able to recognise yourself.
Some transitions are joyful (a change in seasons). Some are hard (take off the high heels and get into gumboots). Many are both at once, and that combination can be genuinely disorienting.
INTACT isn't about making transitions easier to bear.
It's about having what you need to move through them well: with tools, clarity, and the time to actually consider what's happening rather than glossing over or stucking your head in the sand.
'Practical and empowering, but also reflective and personal.'
Workshop participant
👉 Small group full-day workshop (online)
Friday July 10, 2026
A Catapult Conversations Program
Registrations close Tuesday July 7, 2026
Inside INTACT
Something is changing, and you want
comfier (and still stylish) metaphorical shoes.
Learn how to let go of where you were while trying to reach what's next. Without sacrificing what is important to you
Switch between roles, contexts, or versions of yourself daily fluidly
Understand what's happening beneath the surface of your transition to get to the other side intact.
We also focus on tricky small transitions because many people are good in a crisis and can handle the big stuff, but the small stuff is mind-bending.
Get a real and fresh perspective from someone who will not to tell you what to do, but to help you see what you can't quite see on your own.
Prepare for a known transition big or small with less personal cost.
You will be able to support others more effectively through a new perspective.
'Thanks SO MUCH for yesterday's session. I felt lightness and still do! I really enjoyed sharing some of the hard stuff and getting your thoughts on strategies.'
Workshop participant
When: Friday July 10, 2026
Where: Online
Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm (AEST) with breaks
Workshop cost: $220 (inc. GST)
The basics:
6 hours in a small group with Dr Katy Abbott
Clarity around your transition and insight, tools and support into how to move through intact
Tools and resources for application inside the workshop and out.
Greater confidence in how to move forward
A workshop workbook to work with on the day
[Bonus] A Driven Resilience Assessment with report and debrief. Valued at $150.
Option for ongoing support for 2 weeks after the workshop
By the end of the workshop you will have:
Clarity about what you're actually navigating, not what it looks like on the surface, but what's genuinely at play underneath.
Insight, tools and support into how to move through INTACT
Resources for application, both inside and outside the workshop.
Greater confidence in how to move forward
A framework for understanding the DNA of your transition, and the key decisions inside it that deserve deliberate attention.
Increased capacity to move through your transition without overriding yourself.
Tools for working with uncertainty, including what to do with 'not-knowing-yet', and the loss that lives inside change.
About the presenter:
Dr Katy Abbott
Katy Abbott has spent three decades mentoring artists, parents, and leaders who are brilliant people who get tangled, not because they lack intention or drive, but because the things holding them back are invisible to them.
She is a composer, mentor, parent, re-frame queen, travel-happy, neurocomplex person who helps people remember who they are and how to travel through the world a little more smoothly and with a deeper connection to themselves and others.
She is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne where she spent 10+ years on academic staff, and was the 2024 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Composer-in-Residence. Her work is practical, impactful, and always begins exactly where you are.
Questions? Get in touch, and we'll sort it out.
Big Leaps. Gently.
Workshop FAQ's:
Where is the workshop?
Online from wherever you are. Links will be sent prior to the day.
Do I need to prepare anything beforehand?
Nope. Come as you are. No one needs extra things to do before a day that already is an extra thing. The workshop aims to give you back time and capacity with these new skills. All materials will be shared on the day.
What is your cancellation and refund policy?
In short: we're human about it, and we ask you to be too. If something comes up, get in touch as early as you can and we'll work it out.
Who else will be there?
People navigating similar territory. You won't all have the same job or the same life. What you'll have in common is that you're ready to do something about it. Confidentiality is part of how the day works. What's said in the room stays there.
Is this only for artists?
No. The workshop is for anyone in a transition. Artists, leaders, parents, small business owners, people in corporate roles, people in caring roles. If the topic is 'alive' for you, you're in the right place.
I've never done anything like this before. Is that okay?
Yes. There's no prior experience required and no right way to show up. Some people come having thought about this for years. Others arrive because something happened last week. Both are fine starting points.
Why a composer?
Fair question.
Three decades of listening for what's present but unspoken in music turns out to be exactly the same skill as hearing what's running underneath a difficult conversation. I've been doing both for a long time.
I'm also a freelancer who has produced projects of all sizes, negotiated commissions, managed relationships with orchestras, ensembles, funding bodies, collaborators, and venues and got it wrong enough times to know what actually works. I'm a mother of three young men. I've done the teenage years. I've had my fair share of transitions; the hard ones, the awkward, scary, clumsy ones, the ones I've chosen, the ones that chose me, ones wish I'd handled differently and the ones I'm genuinely proud of.
I hold Practitioner Certifications in Playing Big (Tara Mohr) and Emotional Agility (Prof. Susan David, Harvard), and these frameworks inform how I think about these topics, particularly the internal dynamics that get in the way of saying what we actually mean. The training sits underneath the work rather than on top of it.
What I bring isn't a theoretical model. It's three decades of listening carefully, a lot of real-world experience, a mix of research and other's frameworks and a genuine frustration that so many wonderful people struggle through and arrive dishevelled.
I'm not sure I'm actually in a transition right now. Is this still for me?
Transitions aren't always the obvious, named ones. If you find yourself regularly moving between different roles, different versions of yourself, different demands and that movement feels harder than it should, or more draining than you'd expect, then maybe that's worth putting aside a day for. You don't need to be in the middle of something dramatic to benefit from understanding how transitions work and why they cost us what they do.
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