Neuroscience, Consciousness and Transformational Coaching & Certification
The gold standard in advanced coach training
about the course
Neuroscience for the Advanced Coach
With the maturity of the coaching profession, it’s time for a coaching program designed specifically for experienced coaches, offering depth and rigor, and addressing both the art and science of coaching. It’s also time for coaches and their clients to understand why and how coaching works, based on current scientific research and the developing understanding of the brain.
This four-quarter training for the advanced coach covers the latest research in the neuroscience of human development, innovative, brain-based coaching tools, and a road map for conscious evolution.
BEabove Leadership’s “7 Levels of Effectiveness” is powerful road map to consciousness and higher levels of effectiveness in all areas of life. Co-founders Ann and Ursula, and their team of Associate Trainers, bring in cutting-edge neuroscience to ground this theory scientifically, as well as drawing on their combined 30 years of coaching and training to make it all real, applicable, and highly useful as a coach.
program cost
Early Bird discounts available! (see below)
- Regular price full payment: $5,295
- Regular price payment plan: $1,000 deposit plus $435 tuition payment at registration, then $435/month for 9 months
Approved for 80 ICF CCEUs
58 Core Competency; 22 Resource Development
a new kind of virtual course
Active learning
This program is unlike any virtual course you’ve taken before! Groups are small (12 people max) and we’re together for a full year so you get lots of individual attention and time to get to your leaders (us!) and each other. The content is not passive — it requires active listening and participation. It’s highly experiential and, as always at BEabove, we will be pushing the limits of what’s possible in a virtual class.
In addition to Ursula and Ann, we’ve brought together a team of masterful coaches with decades of experience to facilitate classes and lead groups through the material. Meet our leaders >>
Transformational learning
Rigorous and Experiential
This program powerfully weaves the three strands of coaching, consciousness and practical, irrefutable neuroscience together, taking you through an inside-out process so that you understand it deeply in your core. This series is transformative in nature, giving you both highly effective new tools as a coach and deepened personal awareness as a human being. Classes are highly experiential, with many multi-sensory techniques for learning and remembering the complexities of the brain. If you’re a science geek, you’ll love the rigor and applicability of the information. If you’re a creative type, you’ll enjoy the opportunity to play right in the brain and the easy-to-use tools.
Requirements
before you enroll
This program is designed for experienced coaches: those who hold a credential from any accredited coach training school, all coaches who hold an ICF credential, and coaches who have completed coach training, but who do not yet hold a professional credential.
ICF Accreditation Note: BEabove can support you in achieving ICF’s ACC credentials through the portfolio path.
Do you qualify?
Not sure whether you meet these requirements? Get in touch with us and we can discuss.
Don’t have the pre-requisites?
We recommend completing CTI’s Fundamentals course.
Program Content
What You’ll Learn
This program is separated into four quarters and taught in sequence. Each quarter deepens and builds on the previous work.
Quarter One:
Effectiveness and Change
The Seven Levels of Effectiveness
A model of human development. Brain and neurobiological changes at each level. Coaching tools and strategies for different levels of awareness.
Neuroplasticity
The art and science of creating lasting change. What does it take, how does it work? The current research on brain growth and health. Coaching tools for creating positive neuroplasticity.
The Pre-Frontal Cortex
The most advanced part of our brain. The delicate chemical balance and how it is impacted by stress. Tools and strategies for managing stress. How to help your client stay at maximum brain effectiveness.
The Neuroscience of Stress
The neuroscience research on stress management; coaching tools for diminishing the negative impact of stress on the brain.
Multiple Coaching Tools on Above Topics
Tools for using this knowledge directly in your coaching practice:
- Help your clients shift more easily in ways that stick
- Understand how each of the core skills and tools of a professional coach are working in your client’s brain, so that you can use them even more effectively
Review and Practice
Quarter Two:
The Power of Integration
The Role of Integration in Effectiveness
How multiple areas of integration increase effectiveness — and how to help your clients become more integrated.
The Right and Left Hemisphere
The classic polarities of our brain, how to move clients from chaos and rigidity to freedom and structure.
The Neuroscience of Values
The Default Mode and Task Positive Networks
Why it’s so hard to be and do at the same time, tools for incorporating both more effectively.
Multiple Coaching Tools on Above Topics
Tools for using this knowledge directly in your coaching practice:
- Help your clients shift more easily in ways that stick
- Understand how each of the core skills and tools of a professional coach are working in your client’s brain, so that you can use them even more effectively
Coaching Supervision
Each quarter members of the class will coach and receive feedback. Each class member will be supervised a minimum of 2 times during the course.
Quarter Three:
Connection and Intuition
How Emotions are Made
The role of bias, prediction, and expectation, how we construct emotions, helping our clients disrupt negative prediction processes.
The Power of Prediction
Cutting-edge science on how emotions are constructed in the brain.
Images and Embodiment
Why working with images and the body-brain is so effective in coaching; new tools for bringing this to clients of all types.
Metaphors and the Brain
Multiple Coaching Tools on Above Topics
Tools for using this knowledge directly in your coaching practice:
- Help your clients shift more easily in ways that stick
- Understand how each of the core skills and tools of a professional coach are working in your client’s brain, so that you can use them even more effectively
Review and Practice
Quarter Four:
Energy and Presence
The Human Intention System
The nine aspects of how intuitive knowing comes to us; how to notice and develop your entire intuition system.
Energy and Coaching
The impact of the coach’s energy field on the coaching relationship.
Seven Levels Mirroring
How to use the power of the Seven Levels to help our clients integrate their internal dialogue, heal stuck places, and develop self-compassion.
The Neuroscience of Presence
The profound impact we have on each other; how our own authenticity and transparency shape the world around us.
Multiple Coaching Tools on Above Topics
Tools for using this knowledge directly in your coaching practice:
- Help your clients shift more easily in ways that stick
- Understand how each of the core skills and tools of a professional coach are working in your client’s brain, so that you can use them even more effectively
Coaching Supervision
Each quarter members of the class will coach and receive feedback. Each class member will be supervised a minimum of 2 times during the course.
80 ICF CCEUs
designation of Certified NeuroTransformational Coach
Why Take This Class?
Is it right for you?
Pushing Boundaries of Virtual Learning
We are committed to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in a virtual class. The program is as experiential as humanly possible for active, engaged learning.
Rigor and Fun
Because you want to learn about neuroscience in a fun, playful and integrated way, AND you want to learn more about coaching in a rigorous, clear, scientifically grounded way
Individual Attention
Groups are limited to 12 participants so you will receive personal attention and really get to know each other.
Certification is Included
You’ll complete this class with the designation of Certified NeuroTransformational Coach.
Scientific Grounding
Because you would love to have a scientifically grounded understanding of human development and transformation
Brain-based Understanding
Because you would love to be able to demystify coaching and have scientific proof for its effectiveness based on the impact on the brain
Coaching's Critical Elements
Because you’d like to know more about what is critical in coaching and what is not based on the brain’s response and the client’s level of consciousness
Client Awareness
Because you’d like to know how to coach clients at every level of awareness, including those who have grown out of coaching
Lifelong Learning
Because you’re already a great coach, and because you’re a coach, you always want to learn more!
Transformation
Because you believe that coaching is fundamentally about creating more than change, it’s about transformation
Frequently Asked Questions
Curious?
Can I take part in this program if I am NOT a coach? How many calls can I miss during the 40-week virtual program? Do I have to sign up for the whole program?… and more!
What Our Students Say
Reviews
Ann and Ursula, of BeAbove Leadership, have integrated consciousness and coaching with the latest findings in the field of neuroscience to create a powerful and accessible roadmap and guidebook. As a corporate coach, I use their resources with all my managers to help them excel in leadership — in their life and work and for the sake of those they lead. The BEabove Advanced Coaching Series is a must for the experienced coach.
I have learned a lot from this program. My primary objective of learning more about neuroscience was definitely met, but I did not expect to learn so much about how to apply the learnings to myself and my life as well as to my clients.
The models I learned in this course have given me the language to explain why we react in certain ways, and why things in life sometime feel like they’re flowing while other times we feel stuck. Most importantly, this program has provided me with a way of explaining what is possible. Surprisingly, I don’t have to dig to0 much into explanation and everyone that I’ve shared this with gets it, because it is part of our human experience. The understanding of how the brain works is fabulous!
Join Us!
We have a new pods starting soon and we’d love to see you there.
Have more questions? Sign-up for our free program information call with Ann and Ursula.
September 2025 – March 2026
Hosta Pod
Thursdays 11 am – 3 pm ET
1st Quarter: September 25 to October 23, 2025
2nd Quarter: November 13 to December 18, 2025 (no call on 27th Thanksgiving)
3rd Quarter: January 8 to February 5, 2026
4th Quarter: February 26 – March 26, 2026
Location: fully virtual
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Payment Options:
Full payment: $5295
Payment plan is a 1,000 deposit plus $435 tuition, then $435/month for 9 months