Stage 1 · For coaches
ITC for 1:1 Coaching: Maps and Tests
For coaches who work one-on-one — and want to use the Immunity to Change Map with real precision in real client relationships.
What this is
For coaches who work one-on-one — not for group facilitation.
ITC for 1:1 Coaching: Maps and Tests is designed specifically for the individual coaching relationship — the sustained, trust-based context where the Immunity to Change™ process can go deepest. It is the companion program to the ITC Facilitator's Workshop, which covers group and workshop settings. The two programs serve different professional contexts; both are prerequisites for the Coach Certification Program.
The program runs in small cohorts of up to six participants — intentionally intimate, so there's space for real case work and peer feedback. You'll work through the full map-making process as both coach and client, with particular emphasis on the test phase: designing safe-to-fail experiments, running them with real clients, and interpreting what the results reveal about the underlying big assumption.
If you work primarily in groups or workshop settings, the Facilitator's Workshop is the program for that context.
Next cohort
April 2026 Tuesday Cohort · April 28, May 5, 12, 19, 26 · 7:00–10:00 am US Eastern
Tuition
$3,960 standard · $3,465 early tuition (limited spots)
Format
5 weekly 3-hour sessions · online · small cohorts of up to six
Prerequisite
None — open to coaches at any stage of ITC familiarity
Faculty
Deborah Helsing
Early tuition spots are limited — reach out to confirm availability. Reach out to discuss availability and fit before applying.
What you'll learn
How to use ITC with depth and precision in a coaching relationship.
Building the map in a coaching conversation
How to guide a client through the four columns over the course of real coaching sessions — when to move, when to slow down, and how to work with what emerges at each stage.
Listening for the competing commitment
The competing commitment is rarely named directly. You'll develop the ear to hear it — in what a client keeps returning to, in what they defend, in the logic beneath the behavior they can't explain.
Working with the big assumption
How to help a client name an assumption so deeply held it doesn't feel like an assumption — and how to hold that discovery in the coaching relationship without it becoming destabilizing.
Designing and reviewing experiments
How to help a client design safe-to-fail experiments that test the big assumption, and how to use what the experiments reveal to deepen the coaching work over time.
Pacing the map across multiple sessions
The Immunity to Change™ process unfolds over time in a coaching relationship. You'll learn how to introduce it, how to pace it across sessions, and how to return to it as the client's understanding deepens.
Working with different clients and presenting goals
How the process adapts depending on who you're working with — the kind of goal they bring, how defended they are, and where they are in their own readiness to look honestly at what's getting in the way.
Who it's for
Coaches who work in sustained one-on-one relationships.
The program works best for coaches who already have a practice — people who are actively working with clients and can bring real cases into the room. You don't need prior experience with ITC. What matters is that you work one-on-one, and that you're deeply curious about why the people you work with struggle to change even when they deeply want to.
- —Executive and leadership coaches
- —Life coaches working with meaningful personal change
- —Therapists and counselors who work with adult development
- —Internal coaches in organizational settings
- —Coaches who have encountered ITC and want to use it rigorously in practice
- —Practitioners already using ITC informally who want to develop real fluency
Where it leads
From fluency to certification — or deeper into the theory.
Coach Certification Program
Pursue full certification
The twelve-month intensive that earns you certified standing as an ITC coach and a place in the Minds at Work faculty community.
Introduction to Adult Development Theory
Go deeper into the theory
A deeper look at the constructive-developmental framework that gives ITC its intellectual foundation — and that explains why the map works the way it does.
ITC Facilitator's Workshop
Bring ITC to groups too
If your work extends into group or workshop settings as well as 1:1, the ITC Facilitator's Workshop is the parallel program for that context.
Common questions
Choosing the right program
What's the difference between ITC for 1:1 Coaching: Maps and Tests and the ITC Facilitator's Workshop?+
ITC for 1:1 Coaching: Maps and Tests is designed for the individual coaching relationship — the sustained, trust-based context where the process can go deepest. The ITC Facilitator's Workshop is for group and workshop settings. They're parallel programs for different professional contexts, not sequential ones. If you do both kinds of work, you may eventually want both.
Do I need to have experienced ITC myself before using it with clients?+
It helps, and many participants have gone through the Change Course before joining. But it isn't required. During the program you'll work through the map yourself as a client — with a peer coach in the cohort — so the personal experience is part of the learning.
Do I need to have read the book?+
No. The program is a practical, skills-based curriculum that doesn't assume prior reading. If you have read Immunity to Change™ or An Everyone Culture, you'll find the program puts those concepts to work at a depth the books can't reach on their own.
The April 2026 cohort is now enrolling.
Five Tuesdays: April 28, May 5, 12, 19, 26 · 7:00–10:00 am US Eastern. Cohorts are small by design — up to six participants. Register through the Minds at Work portal, or get in touch with a question first.