Coaching practices for How Can I Use the Immunity to Change Framework to Get Unstuck
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- I genuinely want to make this change and I keep not doing it, and it’s not laziness
- Every solution I try is just a variation on the same idea, and I can feel there’s some assumption I’m trapped inside that I can’t see
- I can name the deep fear that keeps me stuck
- I’ve been hammering at this for hours and just going in circles, but stopping feels like quitting, so I keep grinding
- I’ve thrown so much at this change and it still won’t stick, and I honestly can’t tell whether the real problem is that I don’t want it enough, don’t know how, or my whole setup makes it impossible
Practices that may help
- Map your immunity to change
Find the hidden competing commitments that are holding a desired change in place.
Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical - Break mental fixation before you step away
Name the assumption you keep returning to so the break can actually dislodge it.
Incubation: Why Stepping Away Solves Problems - Test the big assumption behind your immunity
Design a small experiment to check whether the assumption keeping you stuck is actually true.
Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical - Take a deliberate incubation break
When stuck, stop working the problem and let time and an unrelated activity do the work.
Incubation: Why Stepping Away Solves Problems - Diagnose before you prescribe with COM-B
Before picking a strategy, identify which of Capability, Opportunity, or Motivation is the bottleneck.
The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel - Prepare the ground: get protectors on board first
Before approaching any exiled part, get explicit permission from the protectors guarding it.
IFS Unburdening, Made Practical - The time-boxed trial
Run every new behavior as an explicit test with a fixed end date.
Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It - Build a containment or resource before approaching freeze
Establish a felt sense of inner support before approaching any activating material.
The Freeze Response and How to Thaw It - Identify your current stage before choosing a strategy
Diagnose where you actually are in the change cycle before deciding what to do.
The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical - Map your immunity to change
Surface the hidden competing commitment that keeps sabotaging a change you genuinely want.
Self-Authorship: Moving From the Socialized to the Self-Authored Mind
Related concerns
- When Behavior Change Wheel Com B Diagnosis
Before picking a strategy, identify which of Capability, Opportunity, or Motivation is the bottleneck.
Diagnose before you prescribe with COM-B
- Identifying Barriers To Change
Before picking a strategy, identify which of Capability, Opportunity, or Motivation is the bottleneck.
- Immunity To Change
Find the hidden competing commitments that are holding a desired change in place.
Map your immunity to change
- Immunity To Change Kegan
Find the hidden competing commitments that are holding a desired change in place.
- Kegan S Subject Object Theory During A Big Change
Robert Kegan’s subject-object theory holds that adult development is a series of shifts in what you are "subject to" (run by, unable to see) versus what you can hold as "object" (observe and reflect on). Each developmental order expands what you can see about yourself and others, and the practices that support these transitions — reflective inquiry, perspective-taking, immunity mapping — have clinical grounding, though the stage theory itself is based primarily on observational and interview research.
- The Transtheoretical Model Of Change For My Teenager
The Transtheoretical Model (TTM), developed by Prochaska and DiClemente, proposes that behavior change moves through five stages — precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance — and that strategies effective in one stage often backfire in another. The staging framework is well-validated; the prescriptive matching of "stage-tailored" interventions shows promising but mixed results in trials.
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