NAME IT FIRST

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For People Who Were Laid Off

The Identity That Left With the Badge

They took structure, purpose, and the version of you that had a place to go.

This is for:

For the person whose professional identity was tightly bound to a role that no longer exists and who is navigating the gap between what was and what comes next.

You'll produce:your Your Post-Layoff Identity Charter

The Name It First Experience

A layoff is not a professional setback. It is an identity disruption. The company took the structure, the purpose, the colleagues, and the version of you that had a place to go every day. This workbook names the grief, separates your identity from the role, and builds forward. The output is Your Post-Layoff Identity Charter — a stress-tested and signed document for who you are between what was and what comes next.

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Sample questions

  1. When the role is gone, who are you — and how do you separate your identity from what just happened to you?
  2. What does the gap between what was and what comes next ask of you?
  3. What do you actually want next — and is this a chance to choose differently?

Research basis

Latack and Dozier on job loss and identity disruption / Ashforth on role transitions and identity work / Schlossberg on transition theory applied to involuntary career change

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Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

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