Something has shifted. Your career feels wrong & and
the maps don't fit anymore
Liminal Fluency™ is a framework for
people navigating identity-disrupting
transitions. Built on 100+ years of research.
Grounded in what actually moves
people through
Does any of this sound familiar?
Transition shows up differently for everyone. A job lost, a role that no longer fits or the quiet unease that something needs to change. Whatever brought you here - the feeling underneath is often the same
On paper, things look fine
Good job, stable life. But something underneath is off. You're performing a version of yourself that no longer feels true.
The role I built my identity around is gone
Redundancy, restructure, a career that dissolved. The job ended. The question of who you are without it didn't.
I'm not sure where I fit anymore
AI, automation, the rules rewriting themselves in real time. You're not sure your expertise still means what it once did.
I've achieved everything. But why does it feel like this?
Success by every external measure. And yet. A quiet, persistent sense that something more - or different - is still waiting for you.
I know I need to change. But I can't seem to progress
You've read the books. Made the lists. Had the conversations. The thinking doesn't stop. But the shift keeps not happening.
Nobody around me understands what I'm really going through
People care. But they don't get the depth of it. And they can't. What it actually feels like to not know who you are and who you are becoming.
We optimised systems. We increased speed, scale and productivity. But we neglected the human layer.
And now professional identity itself is under pressure. The most essential skill is not prompting, it is learning how to navigate through the fog of uncertainty and the 'not knowing'.
Strengthening that capacity - in individuals, in leaders, in organisations - is what 'Liminal Fluency' is built for.
We Are Living Inside a
Threshold
"Who am I when AI can do what I do?"
This is not a productivity challenge. It is an identity shift - structural, continuous and without precedent. Constant change, transformation programs and AI optimisations are the norm, not the exception.
Skill relevance cycles are shrinking faster than identity can adapt. Linear career paths have lost their credibility. The once trustful agreement between employers and employees is gone. The old maps no longer work.
The usual advice skips the most important part.
Update your CV. Clarify your values. Map your network. Find your north star. Follow your passion. None of this is wrong. But all of it is incomplete, because it assumes you already know what you want.
Most career advice starts at the destination. It asks: what role, which industry, what's the plan? Then it optimises towards that. But if you're in the middle of a real transition - if something has genuinely ended and you're not yet sure what comes next - starting with the destination is the wrong move.
Liminal Fluency™ starts where conventional advice skips. At the ending. The loss. The disorientation that comes before clarity. Not because that's more comfortable (it isn't), but because that's where the actual important work takes place. Every Transition starts with an Ending and ends with a new Beginning.
CV updates, networking, goal-setting - of course all of these matter. But only at the right stage & the right time. Put them too early, they become a way of avoiding the deeper work, not doing it and only postponing it into the future.
There are three movements in every significant transition. Most people only get help with the
last one.
The Three Movements of Navigation
01.
Release
Letting go consciously of what was: Role, identity, competence frame, status - without premature closure or suppression. Before you can move forward, something has to genuinely end.
02.
Navigate
Operating without stable maps. Holding the uncertainty productively. Making provisional decisions and sparking creativity. This is the phase most people rush through - or skip entirely.
03.
Emerge
Binding consciously to a new direction before full clarity arrives. Constructing new identity and narratives. Committing while still in motion rather than waiting for certainty and control to arrive.
These movements rarely happen in sequence and they dial up and down. Most people recognise themselves in all three at once - cycling through them, sometimes even in a single week. That's not confusion. That's an honest transition. The lived experience is often messier than we would like to admit.
Six ways transition shows up. In which phase are you right now?
The Liminal Fluency™ Diagnostic identifies not just where you are in your transition, but how you're navigating it. There are six profiles. None of them are problems. But each has its own path forward.
The Holder
You know something needs to change. But letting go feels like losing something you can't afford to lose yet.
The Wanderer
You're in the fog. Suspended between who you were and who you're becoming. Nothing feels solid right now.
The Drifter
Life looks fine from the outside. But underneath, you feel strangely untethered - busy, but not anchored.
The Experimenter
You're trying things. Testing directions. But nothing has clicked yet and you're not sure if you're making progress or just staying busy.
The Silent One
Nothing dramatic has happened. But everything has quietly shifted inside. And nobody around you quite understands it.
The Threshold Crosser
You can see where you're heading. Maybe you've already started. But part of you keeps looking back - no release yet and that pull is real.
Six capacities you need. All of them are trainable.
Liminal Fluency™ is the ability to recognise, inhabit and skilfully navigate the spaces between what was and what will be. It is not resilience - bouncing back to what was. It is Fluency - moving skilfully through the in-between. It is not a mindset. It is a set of specific, developable capacities - each one mapped to a movement, each one trainable. And the Diagnostic shows you where yours currently stand.
Loss Recognition
Naming what's actually ending. Honestly.
Emotional Grounding
Staying regulated when identity is disrupted.
Uncertainty Tolerance
Operating without a map. And without forcing one.
Identity Experimentation
Trying on new selves before committing.
Narrative Coherence
Making the story make sense again.
Commitment Design
Moving forward before certainty arrives.
Interested? Start here. It only takes
5 minutes.
The Liminal Fluency™ Diagnostic tells you to which profile you fit and where you currently stand across the six capacities. Not a personality test. Not generic advice. A precise map of where you actually are and what that position means for you right now and your near future.
Why I built this.
I'm Christian, a Transition Advisor, Strategic Consultant and Coach with over 20 years navigating corporate, entrepreneurial and personal transitions - including my own startup failure and the reinvention that followed.
I created the Liminal Fluency™ framework and the Diagnostic behind it, because the tools I really needed during the most painful period of my life simply didn't exist. I was offered conventional career coaching, but no amount of career planning fixes an identity question.
I've also tested it on myself. Both times it was accurate and it reflected back exactly what I couldn't say out loud. I know what you are going through.
Ready to find out where you actually are?
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At the pace and depth that's right for you right now.
Transition Map
Session for
Individuals
60 minutes of structured navigation using the Liminal Fluency™ framework. We start with where you actually are - not where you think you should be. Your transition profile analysed in depth, a clear map of which movement you're in and concrete next steps. Not generic advice. Not conventional coaching. Navigation.
Pricing: €169,-
Transition Advisory
for Leaders
& Organisations
Transition Intelligence for leaders and organisations navigating identity-disrupting change and transformations at scale. Strategic advisory, workshops and capability building, stand-alone or alongside traditional change management functions. Helping your people through the transitions your decisions create. Let's talk!
You're not alone
This is more than a moment, it's a skill. In career transitions I often see and feel how much harder the 'in-between' can be than the change itself - with the internal transition often taking much longer.. Great Framework to work wirh!"
Sonja, Career Coach
Liminality is such a strange, yucky and wonderful place to give birth to something new. On our own terms. Thanks for bringing up this super relevant topic and helping out in this difficult time!"
Katarina, Marketing Manager
Inviting liminal awareness was so helpful. Ultimately, we all live navigating between spaces - sometimes unaware of the opportunity this presents to grow, shift and self-create"
Susan, Teacher
I guess this is what they call a mid-career crisis! I was at a loss of what I want to do for the next 2-3 decades of my career, didn't know where my skills would be applicable or what to do next. Thanks a lot, this helped me a lot!"
Ben, Product Management