Axes of Change: A New Change Model for Coaching

Thursday, November 4, 2004
11:00 am–1:00 pm
Room 202

As change agents, the most masterful coaches need to have change frameworks that are based on the developmental psychology of healthy and self-actualizing people rather than change models based on the old psychology models that assume people are broken, need fixing, need long-term exploration of the past for identifying sources of pain and trauma. In designing the Axes of Change, Dr. Hall and Michelle explored and researched how healthy, well, and sane people move through the stages of change to actualize their potentials and make their dreams come true. Using the stages of change and the mind-body-emotion states presupposed in them, the model offers the coach eight roles for supporting, nurturing, and facilitating effective and graceful change.

Objectives

• Participants will learn the content/process distinction about the kinds of change, stages of change, levels of change, and mechanisms of change.
• Participants will discover the eight experiential roles necessary for being an effective change agent and will be given an opportunity to understand how the fluid and dynamic dance occurs.
• Participants will see a live demonstration of leading a person through a change and have the demonstration unpacked to identify the steps, stages, processes, the dance, etc.
• Participants will receive a list of questions for each of the Axes of Change roles and positions and get a chance to experientially try them on in a role play situation with another.

Axes of Change: A New Change Model for Coaching (This is a PDF file)

MICHELLE DUVAL is the founding CEO of Equilibrio, one of the fastest growing behavioral and developmental coaching organizations in the world. She and her team focus on Personal (Life) , Executive, Group, Corporate, Teens, Kids, Health, Wealth, Relationship, and Career Coaching. Michelle is a passionate speaker, trainer, coach; the co-author of Coaching Conversations with Dr. L. Michael Hall. She and Dr. Hall have co-created the Intl. Meta-Coaching training that has been presented in Sydney, London, South Africa and will also be in France and the USA in 2005.

MICHAEL HALL, Ph.D., has a doctorate in cognitive-behavioral psychology with a specialty in psycholinguistics. While trained in traditional psychology, during the 20 years of private practice, he moved to the solution oriented therapies and found himself "coaching" more than therapy. Later he discovered the Meta-States model and co-founded Neuro-Semantics. That led to creating a program for Meta-Coaching with Michelle Duval (director and owner of Equilibrio, one of the fastest coaching organizations in Australia). This training has been presented in Australia, London, and will be soon in South Africa and the USA. Dr. Hall trained with co-founder of NLP, Richard Bandler, has written over 30 books in communication and psychology. Michael is now an international coach working mostly in the field of business.