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Science made it clear we have 3 Brains.
The Head, Heart, and Gut function as independent brains.
What is the consequence when one is not included in the decision?
We are struggling to keep the new behaviour!
And that's not a mindset problem, a lack of insight, or a lack of will or anything of that nonsense.
It is biology doing what it was designed for, keeping us safe, successful, and connected.
Change only happens when all three work together as one.
IN MY WORKSHOPS AND LEADERSHIP TRAININGS I SEE EVERYTIME THE PROOF OF THIS
Coaches and leaders whose work is helping others
change old patterns can't overcome their own.
In my workshops and leadership trainings, I run an exercise, and what I have observed across many different rooms, in more than 15 countries and 4 continents, with all the professions you can imagine, is that the result is always the same.
The case seems simple: a financially struggling business faces an urgent decision to survive, which means making 50% of the employees redundant, and the board presents four options, A, B, C, and D, from which the participant must choose one that will apply for their team
Only option A addresses the company's survival but has harsh consequences, while B, C, and D feel right, fair, or values-driven but do not address the topic at stake, the company's survival.
Most choose B, C, or D, and I can relate to why we would choose one of those options,
but now the disturbing part:
after I explain the consequences and why only A addresses the company's survival,
I ask the room to reconsider their previous choice
90%+
do not change, even with the evidence in front of them.
And the coaches and leaders in those workshops, whose entire work is helping others change old patterns, could not overcome their own in that moment.
What it shows is that our past experiences, beliefs, and values override the real evidence in front of us when only one or two brains are involved in decision-making.
Over the years, I heard responses like:
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“I can’t remove myself from my values”
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“My heart rules.”
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"A business is its employees; we need diversity in a team to create good work"
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"But that change would have been a betrayal of who I am"
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"Years later, I will remember I never took an unfair decision"
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"Can we not be in a position to understand what you are saying, but after reflection, we disagree?
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What makes me wonder: If I have serious difficulties with change, with full awareness, in a workshop without real consequences, with a hypothetical decision, what do we need to change something that matters, in real life with real consequences, and maybe under pressure?
It's like we drive into a dead-end street, and because every cell in our body says it is a two-way street, we keep going.
The map is wrong, but we trust the map over the road.
That is what 3 Brains Intelligence™ is built on: letting you question the map and see the real road by activating all 3 Brains
Mastering 3 Brains intelligence coaching provides you: the framework, the diagnostic tools, and the structured methodology to question the map - yours, and your clients' - and drive the road, and as a bonus, delivers you 40 ICF CCEUs."
THE CEILING WE ALL HIT SOONER OR LATER
Only 3% of us have all 3 Brains aligned.
The other 97% naturally listen to one or two.
Across 5,518 professionals tested in 42 countries, coaches, leaders, clients, all of us: 48% are Head-dominant, 41% Heart-dominant, and 11% Gut-dominant. One brain takes the lead while the other two play along or get overruled.
This is honest biology, and once you can name which brain is leading you can work from all three of them.
A SKILL NO OTHER CERTIFICATION TEACHES THIS WAY
Around session three, you can hear which brain is speaking,and which brain is keeping the change from holding.
Most coaches develop a feel for what is happening beneath the surface, and in this certification that sensing becomes a structured, practiced skill, where what you can learn to do is identify which brain is leading in real time, mid-session, from the language your client uses, the words they choose, and what they do not say, taught directly in Sessions 3 and 4 with scenario practice and a live diagnostic framework.
THE PAINS THIS ELIMINATES
What would you need for you, and for your clients?
What we observe across coaching styles, experience levels, and specialisms is that the same frustrations come up, and you may recognise some of them.
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The client who keeps arriving at the same
insight
They understand the pattern, they see it clearly, and their action plan and the next session, they're back where they started. You didn't miss anything; the pattern lives in a brain that wasn't touched or listened to during the coaching, and now there is a method to reach it.
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Not knowing which brain is actually running the session
The client says one thing, but their body (nonverbal communication) says something else. The distinction between mind and body is clear, but the precise diagnostic framework to name it and successfully work with it is missing. The 3 Brains language gives you that precision from the first session.
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The client who commits and then self-sabotages
Action plans agreed, clarity reached, and then something invisible pulls them back. This is a Heart or Gut Brain protector at work, a survival pattern formed long before the coaching relationship, and knowing how to name and coach it is what changes the trajectory.
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The session that touched something deep, and then dissolved
A breakthrough happened, something real shifted, and by the next session the client reports feeling back to normal. The Heart or Gut Brain had a moment, but it was not yet integrated, and now there is a methodology for embedding change in all three brains.
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Clients who describe the problem but don't feel it
Intellectually articulate, emotionally disconnected, mapping the issue with perfect clarity from the Head Brain, with no contact yet with what it costs them in the Heart or the body. Now you have tools to shift the conversation into those registers.
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Renewal cycles without real learning
ICF CCEUs collected, hours logged, but after the course your sessions look the same. This certification is different because it gives you tools you use from day one, and that clients notice immediately.
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
What changes in your practice,
and in your clients' lives
This is what coaches consistently describe after completing the certification
Across 300+ coaches. 42 countries. 97% satisfaction.
You can hear which brain is speaking, in real time
Language, tone, body posture, word choice, all of it tells them which brain is leading in the moment, and they have the diagnostic language to see it, and respond accordingly.
What becomes available is the layer beneath the story
Clients arrive with narratives, and the real work is in the biology beneath the narrative, the pattern held in emotional memory, in the nervous system, in the gut, and you have tools to reach it, within a coaching framework.
You can begin to see your own blind spots as a coach
Your 3 Brains profile shows you your own dominant brain, and where you may reach too quickly, and that changes how you listen, across every client, from day one.
A named methodology you can use to differentiate your practice
Not just a skill but a certification, a framework with a name, a neuroscience foundation, and a body of evidence, and for coaches building a practice, this is a differentiator, not just a tool.
Decisions that hold
Because for the first time the decision is being made by all three brains at once, not just the Head, which always knew what to do, but the Heart and the Gut, which had been pulling in the other direction.
Your work becomes immediately explainable
When a client asks why they keep sabotaging themselves, you have a precise, science-backed answer they can understand and act on: Head, Heart, Gut, the language lands, and the insight becomes usable.
A complete ICF renewal cycle in one training
40 CCEUs, 28 Core Competencies, and 12 Resource Development. Their next three years of ICF renewal are covered, plus 24 EMCC professional development points.
Deeper sessions with fewer wasted conversations
Because you can sense when to stay in the Head Brain and when to shift, sessions become more precise, and clients feel it from the first session after you certify.
THE COACHING ADVANTAGE AI CANNOT REPLICATE
AI coaches are getting better.
Here is what they cannot do.
Clients are already exploring AI coaching tools. They are fast, available, and increasingly sophisticated. What they cannot do — and what neuroscience confirms — is sense, feel, and respond to the biological signals in the room. That is your advantage. 3 Brains Intelligence is the methodology that makes that sensing capacity trainable.
WHAT NEUROSCIENCE CONFIRMED
What you sensed in the room had a name all along.
The best coaches have always listened with more than their head. They noticed something shift before the client named it. They felt the emotion before it was spoken. They sensed the resistance before it became a word. That was the Heart Brain and the Gut Brain — present in your coaching long before science gave them a name.
In 1991, neurocardiologist Dr. J. Andrew Armour confirmed a fully functional neural network in the heart — approximately 100,000 neurons with their own memory and intelligence. In 1998, neurobiologist Dr. Michael Gershon confirmed 500 million neurons in the gut — the most primal decision-making system in the human body.
This certification does not teach you to work differently. It gives you the language, the diagnostic tools, and the structured methodology for what you were already doing — and takes it further.
"Every experienced coach has had moments they could not fully explain — a felt sense, a somatic signal, an instinct that proved right. This is the science behind those moments."
Head Brain — Logic & Planning
Strategy, analysis, language, cognitive reframing. The dimension coaching named first. The one most clients arrive leading with — and the one that cannot shift patterns alone.
Heart Brain — Connection & Values
~100,000 neurons. Empathy, belonging, emotional intelligence, relational trust. Confirmed 1991. What every coach has always reached for in a deep session — now with a structure.
Gut Brain — Drive & Instinct
500 million neurons. Survival, courage, somatic signals, embodied action. Confirmed 1998. The brain behind every gut-level moment in coaching — and the last to have a method built around it.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE FIELD
Coaching has always evolved.
This is the next step.
Every generation of great coaches has integrated new science into their practice. This is that moment.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
8 sessions · 4–6 weeks · Live, interactive online
Thursdays and Fridays · 4 hours per session · Recordings available
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Everything you need to certify
and apply from day one.
40 ICF CCEUs
28 CC + 12 RD, a complete renewal cycle, plus 24 EMCC PD points.
3 Brains Preference Assessment
Licensed for client use from the day you certify.
146-page manual
All frameworks, tools, and techniques are references you will return to for years.
Commercial application rights
Use and integrate the 3 Brains methodology in your coaching practice and programs.
8 live sessions + recordings
4 hours per session and recordings available if you miss a session.
Global coach community
300+ certified coaches in 42 countries. LinkedIn community + first year of webinars free.
BEFORE THE METHODOLOGY, THE ROOM
What learning this actually feels like.
The methodology only works if the room does, and what coaches say about the room is what they will tell you first.
Lisa & Lindsay
Couples Coaches
Ludo
PCC, ICF Certified Coach
"Christoffel is a wonderful coach, very entertaining with lots of humour, and the process was professional but very light at the same time and enjoyable. I strongly appreciated the pace and the small group, which to me meant more learning, more space for questions, more demos, more practice."
Bénédicte
Coach
"I am quite obsessed by this work. Christoffel's training has synergies with The Body Keeps the Score, it made a whole lot of sense, and it kind of took that book to another level. It does not just give you another tool for your toolbox, it provides you with a different lens to look at things through."
Katrina
Performance Coach
WHAT COACHES SAY
"I signed up for the CCEUs.
What I found was a name for what I had always been doing."
Pauline Barnas, PCC
ICF Professional Certified Coach · Warsaw, Poland
"Having spent over two decades as an MCC coach, I've encountered countless training programs. Finding a program as unique as this is a rarity — where clients effortlessly break free from limitations and experience benefits that stick. As an MCC, I wholeheartedly encourage each of you to explore this framework."
Karen Keller, Ph.D., MCC
CEO/Founder, Keller Institute™
"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. I very much enjoyed the programme and found the clarity of the Three Brains Coaching very useful."
Sheena Bailey, MCC
ICF Master Certified Coach
"This course was an absolute game changer. Christoffel provided groundbreaking knowledge while also creating a safe space to explore and put all the tools immediately into practice. I can confidently recommend it to anyone working in any helping profession."
Bernadett Dara, ACC
Business and Career Coach
"I was in a class of very experienced peers — all MCC or PCC. We found this was remarkably simple language that could take coaching conversations much deeper and broader than expected. I was pleasantly surprised at how the Three Brains theory was both complex and simple."
Jill MacLeod, PCC
Professional Certified Coach, ICF
"The 3-brains concept really lands with my clients, supporting them to unpack complex unspoken thoughts, feelings and behaviours to arrive at solutions with greater clarity and confidence."
Jane Emmanuel, PCC
PCC Assessor & ICF Accredited Coach Supervisor
"Initially, I was skeptical about the course but I needed coaching education hours and signed up. The 3 Brain method simplified my coaching approach and allowed me to help my clients efficiently identify challenges resulting from disconnects between the heart, head, and gut. Identifying core issues is unearthed more expediently when the head, heart, and gut discussion is infused. An unexpected benefit was that it helped me better understand my own patterns. I would highly recommend the training."
Ted Hawkins
Executive Coach — ex-partner PricewaterhouseCoopers
YOUR TRAINER
Christoffel Sneijders MCC
Christoffel teaches the way coaches say they wish more masters did, light, funny, hands on, judgment free, and safe enough to be human in front of, with the kind of structure that gives you tools you use the next day.
He built 3 Brains Intelligence from 33 years of clinical observation, working at the intersection of coaching, psychotherapy, neuroscience, and embodiment with over 13,000 clients across 33 countries.
The methodology is grounded in data from 5,218 real assessments across 42 countries, reflecting what actually drives human behaviour, and that research shows 97% of us have a dominant brain that shapes how we honestly listen, so knowing yours is one of the most valuable things this training gives you.
"You already work with all three brains. You have always worked with all three. What this gives you is a name for what you sensed, a language your clients understand, and a method that takes it all the way."
INVESTMENT
Structure for what you already do:
a complete ICF renewal cycle, and a method that goes all the way.
€1,995 for a complete ICF renewal cycle, a methodology built around all three brains, and the right to use it with every client from the day you certify.
Most coaches say the CCEUs were the reason they enrolled. What they describe afterwards is a shift in how they hear and coach their clients, because now they know which brain is speaking and which one is silent.
Still weighing it up? Book a free 15-minute call with Christoffel — a genuine conversation, not a sales call — to see whether this is the right next step for where you are.
TRAINING CALENDAR
Upcoming cohorts — 2026
FAQ
Questions coaches ask before enrolling
Most programs reach one brain.
Your clients need all three.
300+ coaches in 42 countries have brought their existing method — cognitive, somatic, emotional, or integrative — and left with something none of their previous training gave them: a structured way to reach all three brains in the same session. That is why change holds.
Early bird €1,845 · Payment plans available · Spaces limited · ICF accredited 40 CCEUs