None of us is immune to self-deception.

None of us is immune to self-deception.

Immunity to Change Mapping

“WE ARE IN DEEP NEED OF SOME NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT WHAT GETS IN THE WAY BETWEEN OUR GENUINE INTENTIONS AND WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY ABLE TO BRING ABOUT.”
— Robert Kegan, PhD, Co-Author of “Immunity to Change”

I discovered learning late in life, which has led me to participate in dozens of training workshops over the years, and the best training I have ever experienced was delivered by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey in Cambridge, Mass.

Over the course of three days, the co-authors of “Immunity to Change” led a truly exceptional workshop around the subject of “Immunity Mapping.” During the workshop, I learned how to instruct my clients to create an Immunity Map, a four-column document that brings to light personal barriers to change.

The goal of the map is to reveal the client’s own change-prevention, anxiety-management system. When the client understands this, it opens the door to powerful coaching.

IMMUNITY TO CHANGE MAPPING FAQS

  • Q: How can Immunity to Change Mapping help me?
    A:

    The Immunity Map helps clients understand how they’re wired, why they’re wired as they are, and how their wiring impedes or enhances their ability to lead. (Ideally, you change the mindset that is producing your change-limiting behavior.)

    This goes hand in hand with the EQ-i assessment to help my coaching clients improve their Emotional Self-Awareness.

  • Q: Where can I see more about the Immunity to Change approach?
    A:

    I refer people to this video in which Robert Kegan explains the four-column Immunity Map in 14 minutes.

  • Q: Is change really that hard?
    A:

    You can have an incredible amount of desire to change your circumstances and still not change them. In fact, Kegan shares that when heart doctors tell their seriously at-risk patients that they are they are likely to die if they don’t change their way of living, only 1 in 7 patients can actually make the changes.

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