Robert Kegan Immunity to Change: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Robert Kegan Immunity to Change, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
About 2 minutes
Try it here: write the change and what pulls back
Write the change you want, and the part of you that pulls against it. That pull often has a reason, and naming it helps.
What change do you want, and what part of you pulls against it?
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 - 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 - 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 - Expect to adapt more than you think you will
Your psychological immune system will make most setbacks feel more tolerable than you currently predict.
Affect Forecasting: Why You Mispredicted How You’d Feel - Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical
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. - Distinguish technical problems from adaptive challenges
Separate problems you can solve with existing expertise from those requiring you to change.
Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical - Inoculate against counter-persuasion
Expose people to weakened counter-arguments so they build resistance before a real attack arrives.
Elaboration Likelihood Model, Made Practical - Hold models loosely
Believe your model enough to act on it, but not so hard that evidence cannot update it.
The Map Is Not the Territory - Cultivate a scout identity: "I’m the kind of person who updates"
Build an identity where intellectual updating is a strength, not a concession.
The Scout Mindset - Use belief and community to make change stick
A supportive group and a belief that change is possible help new habits survive stress.
The Power of Habit, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I genuinely want to make this change and I keep not doing it, and it’s not laziness
- There’s a change I genuinely want and keep failing at, and it’s starting to feel like some hidden part of me is quietly working against it
- I can name the deep fear that keeps me stuck
- I’m certain that if this goes the way I fear, I’ll never recover from it
- I keep throwing better information and new tactics at this problem and it just comes back
Related concerns
- Immunity To Change Kegan
Find the hidden competing commitments that are holding a desired change in place.
Map your immunity to change
- Immunity To Change
Find the hidden competing commitments that are holding a desired change in place.
- Immunity To Change Definition Hidden Competing Commitments
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.
- Kegan Adult Development
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.
- Kegan S Subject Object Theory After A Setback
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.
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