Palo Alto Institute for Systemic Coaching US

Coaching Mastery for Colleagues Who Don’t Need Another Method —
Just The Missing Link That Upgrades Them All

As a coach, therapist, or sports psychologist, you’re in this profession to see people grow, perform, and reach what truly matters to them.

And yet, sometimes it goes like this:

Your client leaves a dynamic session with sharp insight and a solid strategy.

Everything aligns — except the follow-through.

Or they hit the same wall on repeat (fully aware their old approach no longer works).

Or things simply don’t move.

I’ve been there — and felt that frustration.

Until I realized the issue wasn’t the client's effort or the quality of my questions.

It was the floor of the brain I was working on.

Because real progress rarely happens through cognition alone.

Let’s face it — if logic and insight were enough, every client would already be living their plans.

And New Year’s resolutions would be a one-time thing.

What truly drives behavior lies deeper — in the limbic system, where stress, motivation, and decisions originate.

The catch? You can’t reach the emotional brain through logic, analysis, or language.

That’s why reasoning our way into action is like trying to put out a first-floor fire with an extinguisher on the third — effort without access.

We’re simply working on the wrong floor.

To reach the right floor — where real movement begins — we need a different kind of approach.

Drawn to what genuinely ignites momentum, I tested and refined a wide range of coaching and therapeutic methods in my own client work.

Over time, I distilled the most effective elements into LIMBIC COACHING® — a curated “best-of” method for brief, high-impact support.

In short: it’s coaching on the right floor of the brain.

How the LIMBIC COACHING® Certification Upgrades Your Practice

Step by step, you’ll master an approach that works directly with the client’s emotional brain — the source of stress responses, motivation, and behavioral patterns.

You’ll learn how to

• Access and engage limbic responses
• Turn those into powerful allies for your client’s goals.

As a result, you will:

• Deepen your expertise and enrich your current methods — turning even more sessions into genuine breakthroughs
• Navigate a wider range of client challenges with clarity, intuitive accuracy, and grounded confidence
• Develop a presence and effectiveness that quietly sets you apart.

And yes — parts of the method work brilliantly for self-coaching.

Because why should only your clients get the upgrade?

Beyond Insight: What Becomes Possible with LIMBIC COACHING®

Grounded in cutting-edge brain-science, LIMBIC COACHING® gives you more ways to get things moving when logic has done all it can.

You’ll have a powerful tool to guide clients in

• Closing the gap between knowing and doing — and translating intentions into tangible results
• Staying flexible between trigger and response — even under pressure
• Uncovering the hidden logic behind their “immunity to change” — and restoring choices.

This gives you the range to work even more effectively with

1. High performers who habitually lean on logic, grit, and willpower — and have hit a wall they can’t out-think
   
   
2. Those aiming to:
   

• Navigate turning points or emotional turbulence
• Recover from personal or professional setbacks or disappointments
• Move past stuck patterns or self-sabotage
• Build durable habits
• Boost their creativity, emotional resilience, and overall well-being
• Perform at their peak when it counts — in pitches, interviews, negotiations, competitions, and beyond.

In short, you’ll walk into sessions with far more options — and the skill to work where lasting progress actually begins.

What You’ll Be Able to Do (That Most Can’t)

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. Precisely crafted power statements to distill the session and spark the next move.

You’ll master coaching with the emotional brain — gaining the key that unlocks it.

For shifts your clients notice, others recognize, and new patterns that hold.

What You Invest — and What You Gain

The program fee is $3,280. Early registration (8 weeks before start) reduces your fee by $400.

Save an additional $200 per person with the Bring-a-peer 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 (after certification)
• Ongoing guidance as you apply the method.

So you’ll experience that quiet thrill again and again — when your clients’ lightbulbs switch on and stay illuminated.

Who Thrives in This Program

This advanced training is reserved for experienced life and executive coaches, therapists, and sport psychologists who seek to refine their craft at the highest level.

Applicants without a psychology degree are expected to have completed at least 100 hours of professional training in coaching or a comparable discipline.

LIMBIC COACHING® amplifies your existing methods — adding direct access to the emotional brain, the gateway to ease and forward movement.

Earn the ICF CCEU Credits. Gain the Edge.

This training has been approved by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for 30 Continuing Coach Education Units (CCEUs).

Complete the training and receive full renewal credit — and a level of mastery clients will notice long before any credential does.

Curious to Experience It Firsthand?

If something in this approach strikes a chord, consider experiencing it for yourself.

You can book an individual session at sylvia@paifsc.com — and if you decide to join the training, the fee will be applied toward your tuition.

If you’d like to talk it through first, I’d be happy to connect personally.