Leave the department

Eleven years in one building, and three resignation letters that were never sent.

Took
4 sessions
Came with
Eleven years, one bad spring
Decided
March 2025
Since
Still gone, no regrets logged
Leave 1
Fig. 01

She had written the letter three times over two winters and never sent it, which told us the decision was already made and only the leaving was unfinished. We spent the first session on what she thought she would lose, and it turned out to be one colleague and a view of the harbor, not the work. The second and third were spent writing down what would have to be true in the twelve months after. She gave notice in March, on a Tuesday, and told me afterward that the hardest part had been the Monday.

Fig. 02 Third floor, east wing
Fig. 03 The stairwell she took instead of the lift