Palo Alto Institute for Systemic Coaching US

Be THAT Coach Who Makes All the Difference.

As a coach, therapist, or sports psychologist, you’re in this profession to see people grow, perform, and reach their goals.

Maybe you know the sessions I’m talking about:

You ask. Your client answers. But somehow, nothing truly moves.
And by the next session, their follow-through has evaporated.

I’ve been there — and found it deeply frustrating.

Until I realized the issue was the floor of the brain I was working on.

Because real progress requires going beyond cognition. It involves our limbic system — the part of our brain where stress, motivation, and decision-making originate.

The catch? Our emotional brain can’t be reached through logic, analysis, or language.

Always searching for what truly moves the needle, I immersed myself in numerous coaching and therapy methods. By distilling their most effective components and integrating them into my own practice, I developed LIMBIC COACHING® — a brain-based approach for brief, high-impact support.

It’s coaching on the right floor of the brain — the foundation for results that last.

To achieve this, LIMBIC COACHING®

• works directly with the limbic system
• uses the brain’s own mechanisms to turn stress, emotions, and blocks into lasting momentum for clients’ success.

In short: it’s coaching with the emotional brain.

And it delivers the kind of results clients remember — and talk about.

How Does the LIMBIC COACHING® Certification Course Transform Your Coaching Practice?

Step by step, you’ll master a high-impact coaching approach that goes straight to the source of stress and emotional blocks — the client’s emotional brain.

This hands-on training goes far beyond theory: you’ll practice proven brain-based techniques, integrate them into your work safely and confidently, and use them with clients anytime.

You’ll learn how to

• access the limbic system's automatic responses
• turn those into powerful allies for your client’s goals.

As a result, you’ll work even more fluidly across a broad spectrum of client challenges.

And here's a bonus: parts of the LIMBIC COACHING® method work brilliantly for self-coaching — perfect if you’d like to clear your own blocks and challenges.

What Lasting Impact Can You Deliver with the LIMBIC COACHING® Method?

LIMBIC COACHING® combines science, logic, and common sense.

It’s a state-of-the-art approach for individuals who aim for optimal and lasting results.

Hence, it is ideal for coaching

1. top performers such as

• entrepreneurs
• business executives
• athletes
• artists

2. anyone who wants to

• achieve and maintain optimum performance on demand
• boost their happiness
• overcome challenges, self-sabotage, stagnation, or other blocks
• master pivotal transitions and other turning points

Backed by cutting-edge brain science, the LIMBIC COACHING® method equips coaches with a powerful tool to guide clients in:

• increasing their stress-resilience, creativity, effectiveness, and overall well-being
• establishing new behaviors that endure
• moving past personal and professional disappointments, slights, or setbacks
• performing at their peak when it counts, i.e., during pitches, interviews, negotiations, competitions, and beyond.

Which Skills and Tools Will You Gain from the LIMBIC COACHING® Certification Course?

The LIMBIC COACHING® method uniquely combines a variety of well-proven components that you’ll get familiar with, step by step:

1. Solution-focused communication to facilitate a clear vision of the desired outcome.

2. A practical muscle response test that guides coach and client through the coaching process like a navigation system.

3. Three different types of bilateral stimulation that align both hemispheres and unleash the client’s built-in mental self-management skills:

• Guided eye movements
• Bilateral auditory stimulation
• Bilateral tactile stimulation according to a precise protocol.

4. Power statements to distill the session and spark the next move.

What Is the Investment and What Does it Include?

The program fee is $2,880. Early registration (10 weeks before start) reduces your fee by $400.

Save an additional $200 per person with the group rate when two or more register together.

Your investment includes:

• 30 hours of interactive, hands-on training: presentations, live demos, and real-case practice — from both the coach’s and client’s perspective
• detailed handouts to support your learning
• expert feedback on two submitted coaching cases (for certification)
• one hour of post-training support (online or in person)
• free presence in the LIMBIC COACHING® coach finder for certified practitioners
• ongoing guidance when you put the LIMBIC COACHING® method into practice with clients.

What Are the Prerequisites to Attend?

The LIMBIC COACHING® certification course addresses experienced life and executive coaches, counselors and sport psychologists.

Participants who don’t have a degree in Psychology need to have a minimum of 100 hours of training in either coaching, NLP, or similar fields.

What About ICF CCEU Credits?

This training has been certified for Continuing Coach Education Units (CCEUs) by the International Coach Federation (ICF). Upon successful completion of the certification course, you’ll receive 30 CCEUs.

More Information or Interested in a Session?

Are you ready to explore whether this unique approach is right for you?

Just book an individual session at sylvia@paifsc.com — and if you enroll, the fee counts toward your tuition.

If you’d like to learn more about the approach, I’d be happy to connect.