

Build Your 3 Brains Intelligence™
The Missing Link Between Knowing, Doing and Being
Even when you do everything right…
Why do things still go wrong?
Neuroscience is clear: we don’t have 1 brain, we have 3.
One in the Head, one in the Heart, and one in the Gut.
Each contains neurons, memory, and the ability to make independent decisions.
Which leads to one essential question:
When we have 3 Brains, how can working with just 1 ever bring the results?
Every day, these 3 Brains guide our choices.
When they’re misaligned, we overthink, overgive, or overpush and .... still feel disconnected, leading to stress, burnout, and failure.
When they align, clarity and confidence return, and ........
achievement, success, and well-being come naturally.
Ready to discover which of your 3 Brains leads, and what inner protectors may be shaping your patterns?
Take the two free self-reflection tests to uncover the answer.

Why Mindset Isn’t Enough
Because think about it:
If your biology is built on 3 Brains, how can working on just 1 — the cognitive Brain — ever bring real, lasting change?
That’s like trying to steer a car with only one wheel.
That’s the gap most coaching, consulting, and leadership models miss.
3 Brains Intelligence™ closes it — translating neuroscience into practical tools that reconnect thought, feeling, and instinct, so transformation truly sticks.
It helps you restore balance and alignment, letting your actions flow naturally again.
Work With Your Biology, Not Against It
What is 3 Brains Intelligence ©™?
Created by Christoffel Sneijders MCC, 3 Brains Intelligence™ is built on a proven neuroscience insight: we don’t have 1 Brain — we have 3.
Your Head, Heart, and Gut each hold their own neurons, memory, and wisdom.
3 Brains Intelligence™ reveals how these 3 centres of intelligence influence every decision you make — and how aligning them unlocks clarity of thought, courage in action, and genuine connection in relationships.
When the 3 Brains work together, transformation becomes natural, sustainable, and deeply human.

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

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

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.
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When the Head leads alone, you can get stuck in overthinking, indecision, or perfectionism — knowing what to do but never doing it.
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When the Heart takes control, you may lose your boundaries — giving too much, saying yes too often, and neglecting your own needs.
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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 on a dedicated website page:
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Why I Created the 3 Brains Intelligence™ Model
As a Master Certified Coach (ICF), Clinical Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist, 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 watched clients try to create change through logic alone and get 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, while the Heart and Gut live in the present moment.
They measure success by how something feels 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, live with alignment, and rediscover the clarity and confidence they already hold within.
What makes it different?
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Rooted in neuroscience, not just theory
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Accredited by ICF and EMCC with CCEUs & PVs
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Used by over 13,000 professionals across 42 countries
Ready to experience it for yourself?
Christoffel

From Knowing to Doing to Being
Master 3 Brains Intelligence™ — ICF-Accredited Coaching Programs

3 Brains Online Training ©™
Live december 2025
Work With Your Biology — Not Against It
This self-paced, neuroscience-based program provides a practical introduction to 3 Brains Intelligence ™ to learn the power of alignment to achieve what you desire.
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:
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Understand the neuroscience of the Head, Heart, and Gut brains.
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Recognise when one brain dominates and how to restore alignment.
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Apply 3 Brains Intelligence™ tools for clarity, emotional balance, and effective action.
Who It’s For: Ideal for everyone who has a desire to become the best they can be.
Are you ready to transform your life?

3 Brains Coach Certified Training (4 Days)©™
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:
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Learn to coach people out of limiting beliefs, emotional blocks, and highly impactful experiences
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Based on neuroscience, emotional memory, and somatic intelligence
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ICF Accreditation: 40 CCEUs
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(28 CC, 12 RD)
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EMCC/NOBCO: 24 PVs
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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?

3 Brains Master Coach Certified Training ©™
Go From Knowing to Being —
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:
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Embody emotional, somatic, and intuitive intelligence
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Refine your presence and master advanced coaching language
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Transform not just behavior — but identity
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Earn 40 ICF CCEUs (32 Core, 8 Resource Development)
Who It’s For: Everyone who followed the 3 Brains Coach Certifiction Training
Are you ready to become a true master coach?


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.

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!

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.

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


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