Key to helping people change is to work together towards their ideal self and their vision of the future. Upon completion of this training you will be able to:

• Help clients discover and articulate their personal vision, including dreams, passions and purposes anchored in the neuroscience-based 'positive emotional attractor’.
• Understand the roles that emotional attractors and the ideal self play in helping people change.
• Take a neuroscience-based approach to working with values and vision, as well as co-creating the relationship.
• Provide clients with various tools to identify and define their values, desirable traits, and personal vision (reinforcing the importance of these powerful drivers).

Being able to change our behavior is critical to success as a high-performer. Upon completion of this training you will be able to:

• Use evidence-based behavior change strategies to help clients define their ideal future and recognize their obstacles to success.
• Identify when to shift from visioning and future-oriented questioning to problem solving and planning (timing this correctly accelerates results).
• Help clients gain insight into the barriers preventing them from changing their behavior.
• Create an action plan so that clients know exactly what to work on, and can start taking action immediately (an invaluable but often overlooked step in behavior change).

We have all heard of the power of habit. Yet, so many clients struggle to make behavior change stick. Upon completion of this training you will be able to:

• Understand the neuroscience of how habits are formed, so you can help clients to start taking charge of the habits that impact their life.
• Identify the specific behaviors and habits that need to change to unlock potential.
• Leverage the brain's valuation system to "tip" into a new behavior and reinforce it for long-term change.
• Know when to use motivation, immediate action, or micro celebration to establish and reinforce new behaviors.
• Draw from the neuroscience-based habit formation map, so you know exactly what part of the habit process to focus on for rapid and lasting change.

Studies have revealed that there are at least three independent intellectual domains, that each domain has its own brain network, and that they are highly susceptible to a number of influences. Upon completion of this training you will be able to:

• Describe the four domains of cognitive function and their roles in daily life and high-performance.
• Explain how sleep, exercise, nutrition and stress impact cognitive function, and how clients can make simple changes to improve their cognition overnight.
• Recommend tools, resources and products to help clients improve memory, reasoning, verbal ability and attention.

Problem-solving and decision-making can be tackled strategically. Upon completion of this training you will be able to

• Describe the how, why and when of insight and analytical thinking as thought-modalities for problem solving.
• Highlight why the biggest issue when faced with a problem or decision is not the problem or decision itself, but the brain's response, and how to address it.
• Utilize a neuroscience-based coaching process to facilitate insight-solutions to problems.
• Help clients mitigate biases to make more effective decisions.

Ontology is the study of the nature of being, of human existence. By shifting or transforming in the domains that make up who we are, we expand our way of being. Our way of being is how we observe or perceive the world, and it also drives our behavior. Upon completion of this training you will be able to:

• Draw from the brain-based transformational coaching model to facilitate rapid, deep, and lasting change.
• Understand the differences between first and second-order change, so that you know when to use behavior change or take a deeper transformational approach.
• Explain that while traditional interventions usually only focus on one or two domains of our way of being, transformational change (deep and lasting change) only occurs when there are shifts in all three domains: language, emotion, and the body.
• Help your client recognize the interpretations and actions that are no longer serving them, so that they can develop a new and more helpful way of being to see more possibilities and take more effective action!

Modern day life brings more choice than we have ever had before. But how do we know where to focus our time and energy?! Upon completion of this training you will be able to:

• Describe the differences between permanent and personal domains of human concern.
• Draw on the neuroscience evidence for different domains of concern, so clients gain valuable insight into their importance.
• Design the domains of concern that clients will observe and assess their lives with.
• Bring clients' awareness to the unavoidable concerns of life, so they can act to take care of them.
• Develop a life concerns map for each client, to help guide them towards their new way of being.

If you wish to be awarded a Certificate in Neuroscience of Coaching (Brain-Based Coach), you will be required to produce a performance evaluation, which will be marked against the brain-based coaching competencies. The performance evaluation is a recording of a 20-30 minute coaching session, conducted during the final two weeks of the program.

40 International Coaching Federation CCEs are awarded upon completion of the training and performance evaluation (32 Core Competencies and 8 Resource Development hours), which can be used towards renewing an ICF credential or count towards the education hours to achieve an ICF credential via the portfolio path.

A listing in our Coach Directory is also provided for Certified Coaches.

PsychASSETS is a neuroscience-based approach to helping individuals, teams, and organizations understand and meet the unique psychological needs essential for personal well-being, positive relationships, and performance at work.

When our brain detects threats to these needs it triggers a series of physiological and psychological reactions, including activation of the "threat" response, characterized by increased adrenaline and cortisol levels. In a work or social environment, this response can severely impact cognitive functions and decision-making capabilities, impair effective collaboration, and diminish overall performance. Conversely, meeting these psychological needs enables us to think and perform at our peak, it enhances workplace wellbeing and relationships, increases motivation and engagement, and improves productivity and performance.

In the Intro to PsychASSETS training we will unpack each of the psychological needs, and discuss ways of helping clients meet their unique psychological needs. Includes PsychASSETS Assessment and professional Report.