Complete tangent: I'm rereading a series in which "catalyst for change" is not necessarily a positive thing. It's used at one point as a descriptor of the main character, who gets fairly resoundingly trashed by life throughout the series. Your use of the phrase made me twitch for a second before I realized that you didn't mean all of the pain and suffering and continuing through despair connotations the phrase has for me.
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