How the Best Coaches Create Permanent Change
Jul 10, 2025 9:37 am
“The Map Is Not the Territory But It Controls Everything”
Hey ,
If you really want to master change work...
There’s one truth you must burn into your mind...
I learned it first from the amazing Innocent Usar:
Your client does not live in the world. They live in their map of the world.
Most experts never understand this deeply enough.
They think if they just...
Explain better...
Motivate harder...
Give clearer steps...
The client will change.
But information doesn’t change people.
The map does.
Think about this...
The person who “can’t charge what they’re worth” doesn’t have a pricing problem...
They have a map where asking feels dangerous.
The person who can’t lose weight doesn’t have a food problem...
They have a map where food = love, comfort, escape.
The person who won’t leave the toxic relationship doesn’t have a logic problem...
They have a map where love = pain and sacrifice.
The symptom is just the signpost.
The map is the territory they actually navigate.
If you don’t work at the level of the map...
All you’re doing is rearranging signposts.
The sad thing about this is...
Most coaching and therapy models fail precisely because they’re stuck at the surface...
They give better instructions.
They push motivation.
They correct thinking errors.
But they don’t transform the map.
They don’t even know how to see it.
Real change work is different...
It’s not about telling someone where to go.
It’s about helping them see the hidden architecture they’re already following.
It’s about guiding them to understand...
The roads they avoid...
The walls they keep hitting...
The bridges they burned or never built.
And then...
Most importantly...
Helping them redesign that map so it supports who they want to become.
This is why I created Subconscious Remapping.
Because the map lives in the unconscious.
It’s made of symbols, metaphors, and felt experiences.
If you can’t access those, you can’t truly change anything.
Here’s the problem with “talk therapy” or traditional coaching:
🛑 The conscious mind is defensive.
🛑 It rationalizes.
🛑 It edits.
🛑 It refuses to reveal what it doesn’t want to see.
But the subconscious doesn’t lie.
When you ask a client to describe their internal landscape, they will show you the truth.
✅ The dark forests they fear to enter.
✅ The mountains they think they can’t climb.
✅ The barriers blocking their path.
✅ The wastelands of past trauma.
They will reveal it.
And when they do, you gain the key to change.
Because once it’s seen...
It can be redesigned.
Imagine this:
A client says, “In front of me, there’s a crumbling bridge over a deep chasm.”
You don’t interpret.
You don’t tell them what it means.
You help them explore it.
You guide them to rebuild it.
Stronger. Wider. Safer.
They don’t just get a new bridge in their mind.
They get a new way of moving through life.
A way to trust.
To risk.
To connect.
To grow.
This is why Subconscious Remapping is so powerful:
It’s client-led.
No resistance.
It’s symbolic.
Deeper than words.
It’s safe.
The client never has to disclose details they’re not ready to share.
It’s fast.
A single session can reshape years of limitation.
This isn’t some shallow trick.
It’s a skill.
A craft.
An ethical, respectful, and incredibly effective way to do change work.
If you want to be the kind of coach people trust with their biggest dreams and darkest fears—this is the skill you need.
If you want to finally move beyond offering advice and start creating true, lasting transformation, this is the path.
That’s why I’m inviting you to become a Certified Subconscious Remapping Facilitator.
Inside this program, you’ll learn:
✅ Exactly how to elicit the map safely and respectfully.
✅ How to guide a client through redesigning it themselves.
✅ How to ensure every shift is ecological and lasting.
✅ How to add this to any modality you already use—making you instantly more effective.
✅ How to create sessions that get talked about and referred again and again.
If you want to become the resource people remember for life...
If you want to change how you work forever...
If you want to change lives at the level that actually matters...
👉 [Click here to access details on how to become Certified.]
Because the map isn’t the territory.
But it controls everything your client can do.
Help them draw a better one.
This is The Certain Way.
Get out of your own way.
CTM
PS: Tomorrow I'll share a case study with you