01/07/2026
Here’s a recap of our latest IMMUNITY TO CHANGE workshop, written by Michal Levy 🤗
,,On Wednesday I ran an Immunity to Change workshop at KAPTÁR, and there's a moment in that process I never get tired of watching.
People arrive with something they genuinely want to change, a goal that's been sitting there for months, sometimes years, not moving. And when I ask what's getting in the way, the answers are almost always some version of "I don't really know" or another version of this - no time, not disciplined enough, keep getting pulled into other things, the non-reason reasons we all reach for when something isn't happening and we can't quite say why.
Then we build the Immunity to Change map, and we get to the competing commitments, the quiet, perfectly logical things people are also committed to, the ones working directly against the goal they came in with. And somewhere in there, almost every time, a face changes. Someone goes a little still and says some version of: oh, I've never connected it like this before.
That's the moment I do this work for. The realisation that you're not failing because you're lazy or weak or insufficiently motivated, but because part of you is doing a very effective job of protecting something, and until you see it, it keeps winning.
What I love about giving people that map is that it hands the explanation back to them in a form they can actually work with. Not "try harder," which never worked anyway, but here is the assumption you've been organising your behaviour around, and here is a whole new space to explore and test. The thing that felt like a personal failing turns out to be something you can finally get traction on, once you can see what's actually holding it in place.
Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey spent decades building this at Harvard, and I've used it for years now, and it still surprises me every time, because the specific assumption underneath is never the obvious one. It's always particular to the person, and almost always more interesting than they expected.
A word about KAPTÁR. It takes something for a co-working space to make room for work this deep, where people sit with strangers and look honestly at what they've been holding themselves back from. They keep creating exactly that kind of space, and this community keeps surprising me with how supportive a co-working space can actually become. Thank you for that Kaptar!
So, if there's a goal you keep not moving, the obstacle is probably more interesting than "I just couldn't find time for it". And if you wish to explore more - I'm happy to talk."
