The above model is known as the Kubler-Ross model. It was first introduced by Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her 1969 book “On Death & Dying” inspired by her study on terminally ill patients.
I have been using this model for almost a decade to teach management of Change. Here I am readapting the same model to see how it works for a Post-Covid-19 world.
Shock Point: The outbreak of a pandemic.
Denial: Almost all world leaders ignored it. Normal people called it just another flu in China.
Anger: Against the virus, against China, against own people & governments
Bargaining: Irrational actions of banging plates and shouting "Go Carona Go", fake rituals.
Depressions: Sleepless nights, empty roads, blank future, hopelessness
Experiment: Calibrating the situation and looking for different possibilities.
Acceptance: Acceptance of a new normal, possibility of a new world.
Choice: Emergence of new possibilities to work around the same existing situation and to deal with the situation in an empowered manner.
Access to Happiness is in the Possibility of Acceptance.
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