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Overthinking without action
The Head Brain analyses endlessly while the Gut stays frozen. More insight doesn't break the loop.
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Emotional reaction without clarity
The Heart Brain floods the system. Logic disappears. The client can't access what they know.
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Action followed by doubt or self-sabotage
The Gut fires first. Then the Heart second-guesses. The Head tries to make sense of the wreckage.
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Traditional solutions use 1 brain to change 3
Mindset. Motivation. Discipline. Repetition. All Head Brain tools applied to a three-brain problem.
THE REAL PROBLEM
Keeping the change is hard when only 1 or 2 Brains are involved.
How many times have we not heard someone say,
"I know what to do, but still don't do it."
We can see it everywhere, in health, in work, and in personal life. People have the insights, the intelligence, and a genuine desire for change, yet they stay stuck in their old patterns and behaviour.
It's not their fault. Most of us are socialised and educated to have one or two more dominant brains and unlearned to listen to all 3.
THE SCIENCE
3 Brains, all with their own way to do their best to keep us safe, connected and successful.
All 3 are working right now, in you. How much of each one do you recognise in the way you decide?
Emotional Intelligence helped us understand emotions. Neuroscience helped us understand the brain in the head. 3 Brains Intelligence explains how humans actually make decisions.
It is the missing link between coaching insight and lasting behavioural change.
THE TRAINING PATHWAY
There is a pathway for your needs at your pace.
Three levels of accredited learning. Each builds on the last. All delivered by Christoffel Sneijders, MCC.
3 Brains Intelligence Online
Self-paced foundations. Learn how Head, Heart and Gut influence decisions, emotions and actions, and how to recognise which one is speaking. Same foundation, 2 versions, depending on what you need to do with it.
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STEP
For your own decisions
Personal
For anyone who wants to understand their own patterns. No coaching background needed.
€149
For your practice
Professional
Adds the application in client sessions, and carries ICF accreditation for credential renewal.
€397
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3 Brains Coach Certification
The full certification. Work with all 3 Brains inside a session, identify in real time which one a client is speaking from, and become a Certified 3 Brains Coach™ with commercial application rights.
Who this is for: Practising coaches, therapists and leaders. ICF or EMCC credential holders needing CCEUs.
WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT
Working with the biology
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Work primarily with the Head Brain — mindset, beliefs, awareness
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Assume insight creates change
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Treat emotion as data, not as a separate intelligence
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Ignore instinct and survival responses as background noise
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Deliver temporary results that fade without sustained effort
3 Brains Intelligence approach
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Works with all three neural centres simultaneously
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Addresses the biological source of stuck patterns, not just the symptom
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Gives the Heart Brain its own diagnostic tools and interventions
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Works with the 12 Gut Protectors — survival responses in modern contexts
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Creates embodied, lasting change — not insight that fades
WHAT COACHES SAY
More than they expected
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Learning from your research on the 3 Brains helped me understand our human reactions on a much deeper level. Thanks for being such a lovely host, it was great to meet superstar coaches from all over the world.
Judith de H.
Senior Practitioner NOBCO and EMCC
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Your teaching style was engaging, and you also made the class fun. You did not shy away from any questions, even the ones critical of 3 Brains, and you addressed them thoroughly. The practicum sessions were really valuable, it is one thing to learn from the book and the lecture notes, and another to put things into practice.
Gregory L. Fisher, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
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I very much enjoyed the programme and have found the clarity of the 3 Brains Coaching very useful.
I have integrated the concepts and the tools into my coaching practice from the very first session, and they have added another dimension to the work.
Sheena Bailey MCC
Business Coach