The axes of change is a practical model designed for professionals who are involved in ‘change processes’.
It was originally intended for coaches, but is also very useful for therapists and trainers. The model is an important component of one of the world’s leading coaching courses (the Meta-Coach Training System®).
The axes of change was devised by an American cognitive psychologist and NLP/neuro-semantics trainer named Michael Hall.
His model is based on research performed on people who successfully changed their lives (without professional help).
Hall mapped the underlying structure of the successful behavior of these ‘change experts’.
His study shows that those who successfully changed, all mentioned the same eight factors, which also represent different stages of the change process.
These factors are:
1. Wanting to get away from something, wanting to avoid something
2. Wanting to go somewhere, wanting to accomplish something
3. Insight into the thoughts and feelings that are driving the unwanted behavior
4. Making the decision to change
5. Creating new and effective thoughts and feelings within yourself
6. Developing new and effective behavior and implementing this behavior
7. Acknowledging and appreciating the accomplished changes
8. Critically appraising the new strategy to be able to improve it
Hall divided these eight factors into four different axes.
