How it Works
3 Steps to
Brain Science Certification
Build Your Tool Shed
The Brain Science Advantage for Coaches lays the foundation for the Brain Science Certification.
This 8-week course is a comprehensive overview of all of the latest brain and behavioral science—a distillation of hundreds of books and thousands of scientific papers into practical, actionable, and easy-to-understand tools and strategies for coaches.
It's not just a "tool kit," it's a "tool shed." You'll receive 32+ hours of training through on-demand sessions, live group discussions, exercises, and readings.
Coursework focuses on four of the most common challenges coaches tackle with clients:
Habits
Productivity
Overcoming Fear
Happiness
The Brain Science Advantage Course can be taken alone or as a first step toward Brain Science Certification.
The course alone qualifies for 32 CCE hours with ICF. For more information about course CCEs, click here.
For a detailed description of the course, click here.
Master the Application
After you’ve completed The Brain Science Advantage for Coaches, you’ll join a community of coaches who are also working to apply, integrate and fine-tune the knowledge, skills, and tools they’ve learned in the first two courses. You’ll deepen your expertise and broaden your toolkit by learning how other coaches are applying brain science in their practices.
The Brain Science Masterclass for Coaches is a regularly scheduled live Zoom meeting facilitated by James Garrett once per week. James chooses a brain science-based theme each month, and introduces new information on that theme each week, before opening up a group discussion centered on workshopping and idea-sharing.
Each Masterclass session lasts 90 minutes. To meet the requirements for Brain Science Certification, coaches must complete 24 Masterclass hours, the equivalent of attending weekly sessions for four months.
The Masterclass is where our coaches really develop unshakeable confidence in their ability to use the right science-based tool with the right client—every time!
AND, after you finish your required hours for certification, you'll receive LIFETIME ACCESS to the Masterclass, as a bonus. This is an incalculable value that allows you to learn new and exciting topics from James every week--for life!
The MASTERCLASS is certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for 36 CCEs. You'll automatically earn 24 CCEs with your Certification, and can earn 12 more if you continue to attend after certification. In total, Certification candidates automatically earn 54 CCEs over the course of their certification period. For more information on Masterclass CCEs, click here.
Mentorship
As soon as you’ve completed The Brain Science Advantage for Coaches and The Science of Selling, you can start your Mentorship sessions at the same time that you are completing your 4 months of Masterclass sessions. These are 10 private, one-on-one coaching sessions directly with one of our Master Brain by Design coaches.
In your Mentorship sessions, you’ll choose one or two areas from the course that were particularly interesting to you and we’ll spend 10 weeks diving deep on each topic. You’ll be able to explore your questions, get advice about specific client scenarios you’re facing, and work through challenges and obstacles you’ve encountered as a coach.
In order to meet the requirements for certification, coaches must complete 10 Mentorship sessions with a Master Brain by Design coach. These are scheduled on a weekly basis. (If you have a conflict here or there, we understand and we'll work with you to reschedule for the following week. Don't worry — we'll make sure you get all 10 sessions!)
The goal of these sessions is to get you fully confident that you know every bit of science in your chosen focus area so that you can start marketing yourself as an expert in that area (whether it’s overcoming procrastination, beating burnout, making or breaking habits, building confidence, or any other area of the course that really spoke to you).
Not only will you sharpen the focus of your expertise through Mentorship, you’ll also have the chance to explore what the science means to you personally on your own journey toward transformation.
