When I was a hospital educator, one of my supervisors had a poster in her office that struck me as a profound and insightful summary of the general course of events that occurred in our jobs. It simply stated:
The Six Phases of a Project:
Enthusiasm
Disillusionment
Panic
Search for the Guilty
Punishment of the Innocent
Praise and Honors for the Non-Participants
This proved to be true, over and over again. Recently I began to wonder: how I would sum up the series of events for a project for which only one individual is responsible? I then began to work on my corollary of the list above. I have humbly named it:
The Six Phases of a Sabbatical:
Freedom
Reality shock
Data overload
Analysis paralysis
Fetal position
Adapting to ongoing psychic trauma
I'm still working on it, but I think this about sums it up.
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