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Your clients have the knowledge.
They have the motivation.
They see the benefits of change.
So why are they still falling back into old patterns?
It's not a mindset problem. It's not a lack of insight. And it's not a lack of will.
There is a reason.
Because change doesn't happen in one brain. It happens when all three work together.
That is what 3 Brains Intelligence™ is built on. The 3 Brains Coach Certification gives you the framework, the diagnostic tools, and the structured methodology to coach all three — plus 40 ICF CCEUs.
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WHY EXPERIENCED COACHES COME TO THIS
Your clients do the work.
And some of them still don't move.
Many clients hit a ceiling in change, because their deepest patterns live in the Heart and Gut. Not because they lack insight. Not because they lack motivation. Because most programs — whether they work with logic, emotion, or the body — only reach one brain at a time. One brain coached. One or two left out. And the untouched brains keep running the old pattern.
The real reason change doesn't hold:
Your client does the work. Gets the insight or emotion. Changes for three weeks. Then falls back. This is not a coaching failure. This is a biology problem.
You can coach the Head — and reach logic, beliefs, and strategy. You can coach the Heart — and reach emotion, connection, and values. You can coach the Gut — and reach instinct, drive, and the body. But most programs only reach one. When one or two brains are left out, they keep running the old pattern. Change doesn't hold because coaching only got through to part of the system.
The 3 Brains method coaches all three — in the same session, with the same client. That is what makes change last.
THE CEILING MOST COACHES HIT
You are an excellent coach.
Here is what excellent still can't always reach.
Most programs are excellent at what they do. The issue is not the quality — it is the coverage. Each approach tends to work from one dominant brain. And so does each coach, because 97% of coaches have a dominant brain they naturally listen from. Your clients are arriving with all three.
A SKILL NO OTHER CERTIFICATION TEACHES THIS WAY
After session three, you know which brain
is speaking — and which brain is blocking the change.
Most coaches develop a feel for what is happening beneath the surface. In this certification, that sensing becomes a structured, practiced skill. You learn to identify which brain is leading — in real time, mid-session — from the language your client uses, the words they choose, and what they don't say. This is taught directly in Sessions 3 and 4, with scenario practice and a live diagnostic framework.
THE PAINS THIS ELIMINATES
What stops — for you, and for your clients
Before coaches complete this certification, these are the frustrations that repeat. Across coaching styles, experience levels, and specialisms. You will 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 next session they're back where they started. You didn't miss anything. The pattern lives below the Head Brain — 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. Their body says another. Their choices say a third. You sense the disconnect but don't have a precise diagnostic framework to name it. The 3 Brains language gives you that precision from the first session.
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The client who commits — and then self-sabotages
IAction plans agreed. Clarity reached. And then something invisible pulls them back. This is a Gut Brain protector at work — a survival pattern formed long before the coaching relationship. 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 wasn't integrated. 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. They can map the issue with perfect clarity — from the Head Brain. But there is no contact 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. Not as a promise — as a pattern. Across 300+ coaches. 42 countries. 97% satisfaction.
You know which brain is speaking — in real time
Language, tone, body posture, word choice. All of it tells you which brain is leading in this moment. You have the diagnostic language to see it — and respond accordingly.
You access the layer below the story
Clients arrive with narratives. The real work is in the biology beneath the narrative — the pattern held in emotional memory, in the nervous system, in the gut. You now have tools to reach it, within a coaching framework.
You understand your own blind spots as a coach
Your 3 Brains profile shows you your dominant brain — and where you may reach too quickly. This changes how you listen, across every client, from day one.
A named methodology you can market
Not just a skill. A certification. A framework with a name, a neuroscience foundation, and a body of evidence. For coaches building a practice, this is a differentiator — not just a tool.
Your clients make decisions that stick
Because for the first time, the decision is made by all three brains simultaneously. Not just the Head — which always knew what to do. But the Heart and 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, and Gut. The language lands. The insight becomes usable.
A complete ICF renewal cycle — in one training
40 CCEUs. 28 Core Competency, 12 Resource Development. Your next three years of ICF renewal, covered. Plus 24 EMCC professional development points.
Deeper sessions with fewer wasted conversations
Because you now know 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 it explicit, trainable, and marketable.
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. A reference 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. Full recordings available if you miss a session.
Global coach community
300+ certified coaches in 42 countries. LinkedIn community + first year of webinars free.
WHAT COACHES SAY
"I signed up for the CCEUs.
What I found was a name for what I had always been doing."
"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
"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
YOUR TRAINER
Christoffel Sneijders MCC
Christoffel did not build 3 Brains Intelligence as a theory. He built it 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 4,650 real assessments. It reflects what actually drives human behaviour, not what coaching models have assumed. That research shows that 97% of coaches have a dominant brain pattern that shapes how they naturally listen — and 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.
40 CCEUs. 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 their clients — because now they know which brain is speaking.
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.
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