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1. John's Case provides the fullest account on this site of how PROGRESS works. This example is used throughout the explication of the model to illustrate the stages and how the various exercises might be used.
   John's mother has recently had a serious fall and John is trying to decide how best to look after her. He is torn between having her stay at home for 'one last summer' together and sending her to an institution...
   
   

2. Danny had been working in the City of London for ten years. Not fully satisfied with this role he had been thinking about his future career path for the last five years. Recent events had precipitated him into a period of intense speculation about the future course of his life. Over the last year he was both made redundant and diagnosed with a serious illness, and the question of what direction to take his working life in had intensified to the extent that he was thinking about this decision constantly every day...  (118 KB)
   
   

3. Sara, an administrator in her fifties, filled in a pre-session questionnaire indicating she had two related decisions that had been constantly on her mind for the last six months. She wanted to sort out her priorities in her work and private life and decide whether to stay or move from her current job. She felt conflicted between wanting an easier ride in her work so she could have more time and energy left over for other activities and wanting to be more ambitious, between under-selling herself and over-reaching herself through false vanity. She wanted challenges but was worried that her age and the current job market meant she would have trouble getting the kind of job she wanted – whatever that was! She rated her decision ‘very hard to make’ because there were so many unknown factors and she was being pulled in opposite directions... (pdf file)
   
   

4. Michael is expecting to receive a very large sum of money when companies he has shares in go to market. But he is very anxious about how this will affect his life, and what to do with the money... (32 KB)
   
   

5. Jean's life was very stressful, full as it was of the demands of a difficult, challenging, yet satisfying job. Burnt out she left this job for something less satisfying. Now the race relations group she used to work for want her to be a trustee of a new race relations centre they are developing at the same time as a new relationship is blossoming. Jean is drawn towards this but fears that the stresses upon her will be too much... (35 KB)
   
   

6. Bill is newly promoted to management in an IT company. He has just received an email from an old colleague and friend 'from the ranks' who is asking whether his supervisor is 'gunning' for him. His supervisor is. How should he respond to the email... (37 KB)