Expectations in Flux: Open Table Conversation

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:24:00 -0400

Your library is migrating systems. Or restructuring staff. Or losing a longtime colleague to retirement. Whatever the transition, here’s what nobody warns you about: it’s not just the change itself that throws you off—it’s that all your expecations for how things “should” go stop applying, seemingly overnight.

Join this facilitated conversation to explore what happens to our expectations when we’re in the thick of transition, and how adjusting them—rather than clinging to them—might be the very thing that helps us move through the disorientation instead of getting stuck in it. Drawing on the Bridges Transition Model, we’ll think together about what it looks like to loosen our grip on “how things used to work” and get curious about what’s forming instead.

Kelly Campbell on Fosgail

Expectations in Flux: Open Table Conversation