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Build Your 3 Brains Intelligence™ 
The Missing Link Between Knowing, Doing and Being

Who’s Really Making Your Decisions — Your Head, Heart, or Gut?

 

Discover the Hidden Strategies Driving You — and How to Regain Clarity, Confidence, and Inner Calm.

Created by Christoffel Sneijders MCC, this neuroscience-based approach helps you align your Head, Heart, and Gut so your decisions feel clear, connected, and true to who you are.

 

If you’re curious to understand what truly drives you, you can explore two free self-reflection tests. They reveal which of your three brains naturally leads — and how your Inner Protectors shape the way you think, feel, and act.

 

Learn how your logic (Head), your need for connection (Heart), and your instinct for safety and success (Gut) shape the way you lead, relate, and live.

 

When your three brains align, the inner tug-of-war ends — and you begin to live with power, purpose, and peace, excelling in what you love to do.

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What is
3 Brains Intelligence ©™?

3 Brains Intelligence™ is a neuroscience-based approach that reveals how the Head, Heart, and Gut each hold their own intelligence — and how aligning them unlocks clarity of thought, courage in action, and genuine connection in relationships.

Most people try to solve their challenges with logic or mindset alone — but that’s like trying to steer a car with only one wheel.
The truth is, you have three internal decision-makers: your Head (logic), your Heart (emotions), and your Gut (instinct). 

When they pull or push in different directions, you can feel stuck, torn, or exhausted — a sign that your inner system is out of sync.

 

The 3 Brains Intelligence™ method helps you restore that balance, reconnecting thought, feeling, and instinct so your actions flow naturally again.

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Your Head is your strategic planner — it analyzes, structures, and forecasts the best course of action.

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Your Heart guides through empathy and purpose — it cares about meaning, people, and how your choices impact others.

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Your Gut is your action-taker and protector — it pushes you forward, keeps you safe, and gives you the drive to act when it matters most.

Each brain has your best interest at heart — but when one dominates the others, imbalance takes over.

  • When the Head leads alone, you can get stuck in overthinking, indecision, or perfectionism — knowing what to do but never doing it.

  • When the Heart takes control, you may lose your boundaries — giving too much, saying yes too often, and neglecting your own needs.

  • When the Gut runs the show, you may charge ahead without reflection — chasing success, control, or security at the cost of connection and meaning.

This inner conflict often leads to confusion, hesitation, or self-sabotage — because part of you always feels unheard.

By learning to listen to all three and align their wisdom, you unlock decisions that feel not just productive, but right — in your mind, your body, and your soul.

Learn more about the science behind this approach in our detailed overview:

What Is 3 Brains Intelligence?

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Christoffel Sneijders

Why I Created the 3 Brains Intelligence™ Model

As a Master Certified Coach (ICF) and Visiting Professor in Leadership and Neuroscience, I developed the 3 Brains Intelligence™ model to help people move beyond mindset and work with their full biology — Head, Heart, and Gut.

 

For years, I saw clients trying to create change through logic alone — and getting stuck.

Others followed their Heart or Gut but couldn’t make progress that lasted.

The reason is simple: the Head brain analyses cause and effect, but the Heart and Gut experience life in the present — they measure success by how things feel now, not by what might happen tomorrow.

 

When the Head leads alone, life becomes a solo project. It can plan and perform, but it often forgets us — our emotions, relationships, and biological need to feel safe and connected.

Real transformation happens only when all three decision-makers — Head, Heart, and Gut — work together.

 

That’s what 3 Brains Intelligence™ makes possible: a way to think with clarity, feel with compassion, and act with courage — fully aligned from the inside out.

 

My purpose in sharing this model is simple:

to help people stop self-sabotaging, start living in alignment, and rediscover the clarity and confidence they already have within them.

What makes it different?

  • Rooted in neuroscience, not just theory

  • Accredited by ICF and EMCC with CCEUs & PVs

  • Used by over 13,000 professionals across 42 countries

Ready to experience it for yourself?

Christoffel

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Featured Programs & Certifications

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3 Brains Online Training ©™

Work With Your Biology — Not Against It

This self-paced, neuroscience-based program gives you a practical introduction to 3 Brains Intelligence ™ — the Head, Heart, and Gut system that shapes every decision you make.

It’s the perfect first step to experience the power of alignment before joining the live professional trainings.

 

You’ll learn how each brain thinks, feels, and reacts under pressure — and how to bring them back into balance so your choices feel clear, confident, and congruent.

Through videos, reflection exercises, and guided embodiment practices, you’ll start living the principles from 3 Brains Intelligence: Forget Mindset & Discipline — Work With Your Biology, Not Against It.

 

Experience real, embodied transformation — anywhere, at your own pace.

Benefits:

  • Understand the neuroscience of the Head, Heart, and Gut brains.

  • Recognise when one brain dominates and how to restore alignment.

  • Apply 3 Brains Intelligence™ tools for clarity, emotional balance, and effective action.

 

  • Who It’s For: Ideal for individuals, leaders, and aspiring coaches who want to start integrating this work.

Are you ready to transform your life?

Certified 3 Brains Coach

3 Brains Coach Certified Training (4 Days)©™

Become a Certified 3 Brains Coach — Create Real, Lasting Change

In this intensive, ICF- and EMCC-accredited training, you'll learn how to coach using the full power of the Head, Heart, and Gut Brains.

You will master using the neuroscience of the 3 Brains Intelligence to align all 3 Brains—so clients create real, lasting change.

Ignite transformation by coaching the power of the Head, Heart, and Gut Brain. This training goes beyond traditional coaching by integrating neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and somatic intelligence, enabling you to guide clients toward deeper self-understanding and more effective decision-making.

Benefits:

  • Learn to coach people out of limiting beliefs, emotional blocks, and highly impactful  experiences

  • Based on neuroscience, emotional memory, and somatic intelligence

  • ICF Accreditation: 40 CCEUs

  • (28 CC, 12 RD)

  • EMCC/NOBCO: 24 PVs

  • Become a Certified 3 Brains Intelligence Coach™

 

  • Who It’s For: Coaches, leaders, and professionals integrating coaching in their roles.

Are you ready to transform your coaching?

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3 Brains Master Coach Certified Training ©™

Go From Knowing to Being — Embody the 3 Brains at Their Deepest Level

​You’ve guided change. Now it’s time to become the change.

 

This Master Coach journey is for those ready to go beyond tools and techniques — to embody the full depth of the 3 Brains Intelligence™. 

 

This advanced training is for experienced coaches ready to stop “doing the model” and start being it. You’ll refine your presence, deepen your somatic awareness, and coach from a place of full Head–Heart–Gut alignment.

Through deep practice, emotional memory work, and embodied inquiry, you’ll move beyond tools — and become a catalyst for identity-level change.

Benefits:

  • Embody emotional, somatic, and intuitive intelligence

  • Refine your presence and master advanced coaching language

  • Transform not just behavior — but identity

  • Earn 40 ICF CCEUs (32 Core, 8 Resource Development)

Are you ready to become a true master coach?

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Which Brain Is Unconsciously Leading Your Life?

Take the free 3 Brains Dominance Test to find out whether your Head, Heart, or Gut is quietly running the show.

Discover your brain's unique strengths — and where it might be overstepping, holding you back, or creating inner conflict.

✨ It only takes 5 minutes — and can shift how you think, decide, and relate from the inside out.

The next step in self-discovery: Uncover What’s Holding You Back

Your  12 protectors, when you know your 3 Brains Dominance. 

“Understanding your dominant brain is step one. But to truly transform, you must understand what’s holding it back.”
This is where the Protectors come in — and where our coaching trainings go even deeper.

 

Then it’s time to meet the 12 Protectors behind your behavior — the internal parts that work hard to keep you safe, accepted, or in control… but may also keep you stuck, small, or silent.

Discover which Protector is running the patterns behind your decisions, reactions, or resistance — and what it’s really trying to protect.

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What do the experts share?

Alexa Regina Fasholt PCC, Psychologist, Sr. Executive Coach

Thinking about what was particularly valuable for me, I would have to pick "experiencing 3 brains coaching" in person.

 

Each time we practised coaching with a partner, I walked away with significant insights into areas of my life where I felt stuck, and by the end of the training, I had found answers, got unstuck and felt renewed energy flow.

You provided a wealth of wonderful information, tips, tricks, food for thought, inspiring moments, and first-hand experiences

It’s pretty darn perfect, if I may say so as a perfectionist!

Alexa Regina Fasholt PCC, Psychologist, Sr. Executive Coach

Karen Keller, Ph.D., MCC, CEO/Founder at Keller Institute™

Christoffel has masterfully shared his extensive research, wisdom, and coaching expertise in a way that not only makes learning enjoyable but also immediately applicable.

Finding a program as unique as this one is a rarity, where clients effortlessly break free from limitations, unlock their true potential, and experience benefits that stick.

Having spent over two decades as an MCC coach, I've encountered countless training programs, but few that have delved as effectively into the core of client issues or offered solutions as impactful as this one.

Karen Keller, Ph.D., MCC, CEO/Founder at Keller Institute™

Willem Royaards CEO & Partner 3R Consultants, Executive Coach

The 3 Brains certification training blends cutting edge neuroscience knowledge with very effective coaching skills building.

 

The concepts and the tools are easy to integrate into your coaching practice and they add another dimension to the work we do as coach...

The 3-brains concept really lands with clients, supporting them to reveal complex unspoken thoughts, feelings and behaviours to arrive at solutions with greater clarity and confidence

Willem Royaards CEO & Partner 3R Consultants, Executive Coach
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There were some differences in how we learn and understand. Amazingly! Driven by Chris's charismatic body language, which conveyed compassion and enthusiasm, I felt increasingly connected to the other participants. I have experienced a mindful journey through a "three brains" coaching session, which genuinely helped me connect with my inner self. I will employ the valuable lessons learned in this course to help my clients discover the truth and manifest their vision in life. Chris, thank you for such an abundant and substantial gift!

Surina Wang
Master Certified Coach - International Coaching Federation

About the Founder

Christoffel Sneijders is the creator of the 3 Brains Intelligence™ model and founder of the 3 Brains Intelligence Academy. With over 30 years of experience in coaching, leadership, and neuroscience, he has trained more than 13,000 professionals across 42 countries. His work integrates the Head, Heart, and Gut into a practical system for authentic leadership and personal growth.

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