Navigating a Life Transition: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Reframe Midlife Shifts as Opportunities

This article presents the FLIP tool, an Appreciative Inquiry-based framework developed by Bernard Tollec to help individuals, especially men in midlife, navigate transitions. It guides them from confusion and nostalgia towards clarity and purposeful action. Through four progressive phases and powerful self-reflective questions, FLIP helps turn life’s uncertainty into a space for conscious creation.