Meaning-Based Coaching : A Calibration Framework for Fit, Evidence, and Durable Change

著者名：Stone, Jessica

Wiley（2026/10/02発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781394347643
• eISBN：9781394347650

Description

A practical framework for understanding what makes change accessible—and what helps it last

Why can highly capable people understand what needs to change and still find themselves repeating the same patterns under pressure? Meaning-Based Coaching: A Calibration Framework for Fit, Evidence, and Durable Change offers an integrative model for answering that question. Drawing on psychological science, coaching research, and the realities of leadership practice, Dr. Stone introduces the Calibration and Meaning Integration framework, or CMI.

CMI begins with a central premise: people respond not only to what happens, but to what the event comes to mean. That meaning shapes emotional and physiological state, influences which capacities remain accessible, and affects the behavior that follows. A person may possess insight, judgment, confidence, flexibility, or relational skill and still lose access to those capacities when particular meanings or protective patterns are activated.

Rather than relying on a single coaching method, CMI helps practitioners determine what a client can use in the moment and adjust the work accordingly. Coaches learn to attend to meaning structures, state and access, recurring patterns, identity coherence, autonomy needs, and the conditions under which new learning becomes believable enough to apply.

Readers will find:

• A clear model connecting events, meaning, state, access, and behavior
• Guidance for distinguishing a lack of capacity from a temporary loss of access
• Methods for calibrating coaching stance, pacing, structure, depth, and directiveness
• Practical approaches for recognizing protective patterns
• Strategies for creating experiences that generate credible evidence and support durable change
• Considerations for coaching neurodivergent clients, leaders, and exceptional minds
• Case examples, reflective questions, and applied tools for use throughout the coaching process

Written for executive coaches, leadership-development professionals, consultants, organizational psychologists, and advanced students, Meaning-Based Coaching provides a flexible framework for working with the person in front of you rather than forcing the person to fit the method. It offers a more precise way to understand why change stalls, how fit can be improved, and what allows insight to remain available when it matters most.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
Meet the Author x

Introduction 1

SECTION 1 THE CONCEPT AND WHY IT MATTERS
1 Getting Oriented: Ways to Use This Book 7
2 Capable But Stuck: A Leadership Paradox 15
3 The CMI Model: How Meaning Drives Behavior 28
4 How Change Actually Works 42

SECTION 2 FOUNDATIONS
5 The File-Folder Mind: How Humans Organize Experience, Meaning, and Identity 57
6 Arousal and Access: The Physiological Gatekeeper of Change 69
7 Learning and Consolidation: How Change Becomes Durable 80

SECTION 3 INTEGRATIVE PRACTICE
8 Working with the Whole Person 97
9 Pattern Literacy for Coaches 106
10 Coaching Neurodivergent and Exceptional Minds 117

SECTION 4 CALIBRATION AND RESEARCH GROUNDING
11 The Procrustean Problem 131
12 What the Research Actually Shows 145
13 The Client as Primary Variable 159
14 Repair and Fit: Moving Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Coaching 173
15 CMI as an Answer 186

SECTION 5 CMI APPLICATION AND ADVANCED PRACTICE
16 The Mid- phase: Updating the System Through Evidence 201
17 CMI Calibration Principles 217
18 Between-Session Practice: How CMI Turns into Real Change 232
19 Common Client Presentations 247
20 Organizational and Systemic Context 268
21 CMI in Context: How This Model Relates to Other Frameworks 280
22 Completion and Integration: Ending or Shifting Well 290
23 Difficult Moments: When the Work Gets Messy 301

Conclusion: Speaking to What Is Actually There 310
References 314
Appendix A The Access Rhythm: A Practice for Complex Moments 322
Appendix B Key Terms and Plain-Language Translations 329
Appendix C CMI Across Coaching Contexts 352
Appendix D Reader Carry-Forward Card 361
Index 364