CSChristoffel SneijdersThree brains: head, heart and gut for decisions you keep deferring

How To Make Better Decisions: Align Your Head, Heart & Gut With 3 Brains Coaching

1 Sept 2020 · 1 min

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In this short talk, Christoffel Sneijders explores why clients and employees often revert to old habits when pursuing goals and proposes a coaching framework based on the "3 brains" model. He explains that humans possess three distinct neural systems: the head brain (approximately 100,000 neurons) that handles logical reasoning and relationship considerations; the heart brain (also around 100,000 neurons) that governs bonding, social connection, and emotional valuation of relationships; and the gut brain (about 500 million neurons) whose primary purpose is survival, driving self‑preservation instincts. By helping leaders and coaches make people aware of how each brain influences decisions, they can align logical analysis, emotional priorities, and survival drives, thereby moving performance from merely good to great.

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Why is it that our clients and our employees fall back sometimes in all the things they like to achieve? And how can we as a coach or as a leader really coach them to succeed? For that, actually, we have to step into the new science of the 3 brains. We all know we have a brain here, and some people say we have 3 brains there. But almost nobody really realizes that we have a real brain here with 100,000 brain cells That's all about bonding and connecting, and it makes every time a decision, how does it affect me and my important relationships, or the relationships my heart thinks are important. And we have one here, the gut brain. 500 million brain cells with one objective: keep my boss alive. Survival. That means take care of me, myself, and I. Coaching your employees or your colleagues on the 3 brains, how the logic works with it, how the heart works with it, how the gut brain works with it, will really make the difference in good, great, amazing.