Transformation V Change

Today I heard, despite considerable dissonance, a distinction between external change and internal transformation. This feels like a difference with some merit, but reminds me of further nuances and possibilities for healthy and pathological transitions, great and small. Transformation seems like a good thing. A negative internal change evokes words like deterioration, fragmentation, While "change" works for me as positive or negative, more neutral without context, direction determined by environmental co-arisings, or yet to become determined, evaluated, And what about the cause-effect and/or co-arising relationship, or lack of relationship, between exterior changing climates and interior transforming/fragmenting cultures or climates, character and character assassinations? I remember Gregory Bateson's fascination with "acclimation" which he concluded is, in some ways, co-acclimation-- more often creolizing than colonizing. Which brings me back to noticing that "climate change" feels like climate fragmentation and my growing pre-traumatic stress does not feel at all like a healthy transformation; more like debilitation Further evoking discernment about how our cultural subclimates of disability, fracture, disruption of ego/eco-centric balance, contribute to toxicity of exterior climate change. Perhaps "transition" is a better interior consort for the exterior neutered face of "change"; and here we all are, together and yet too far apart in this unprecedented time of Re/De-Generative Change and billions of individual small yet Great Transitions.