Brain-Based Skills Consulting for College Students & Adults

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We offer brain-based consulting to support the development of core and applied life skills. This type of consulting integrates neuroscience to optimize mental capabilities and foster deeper cognitive engagement, while traditional consulting or coaching typically focuses on goal achievement without leveraging scientific insights into brain function. Learn more here.

Consulting is for adults and college students who are looking for a highly tailored approach to developing core life skills (planning, focus, flexibility, self-control, awareness) through mind-brain methods. The life application areas we work on are: learning, organizing, communication, and self-care.

Our personalized approach is particularly well suited to neurodiverse minds who are looking for a guide on their unique pathway.

1. Complete an assessment to see if our services meet your needs. 

2. Complete a complimentary discovery call (10-15 minutes).

3. Schedule an initial 90 minute meeting to discuss a personalized plan.

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Consulting based in brain science differs significantly from traditional coaching methods in its approach, focus, and underlying principles. Here are the key distinctions:

1. Focus on Brain Optimization

• Abel Pathways Consulting: Centers on optimizing brain function itself, using neuroscience principles like neuroplasticity to enhance mental capabilities, improve focus, manage stress, and develop healthier habits.
• Traditional Coaching: Typically focuses on achieving external life or career goals without directly addressing the brain's mechanisms or cognitive processes.

2. Science-Based Framework

• Abel Pathways Consulting: Utilizes insights from neuroscience to create structured, personalized plans that align with the brain's natural learning and adaptation processes. This includes leveraging the brain’s preference for hardwiring behaviors and embedding new habits.
• Traditional Coaching: Relies more on general psychological or motivational techniques without necessarily incorporating scientific understanding of brain function.

3. Self-Directed Learning

• Abel Pathways Consulting: Encourages clients to make their own connections and insights, fostering self-directed learning and deeper cognitive engagement. Consultants act as facilitators rather than advisors.
• Traditional Coaching: Often involves providing advice or guidance to help clients achieve their goals, which may not always emphasize independent cognitive discovery.

4. Solution-Oriented Approach

• Abel Pathways Consulting: Focuses on solutions rather than problems, aiming to rewire negative neural pathways by emphasizing desired outcomes and reverse-engineering the process to achieve them.
• Traditional Coaching: May spend more time addressing obstacles or challenges upfront, which can reinforce negative thought patterns.

5. Emphasis on Long-Term Change

• Abel Pathways Consulting: Aims to create lasting changes in thinking and behavior by working with neuroplasticity to establish new neural connections and habits.
• Traditional Coaching: Often focuses on immediate goals or challenges without explicitly addressing long-term cognitive restructuring.

6. Tailored Cognitive Engagement

• Abel Pathways Consulting: Adapts sessions to individual strengths and support needs, ensuring alignment with each client’s unique brain functioning.
• Traditional Coaching: May use standardized approaches that do not account for individual cognitive differences.

In summary, brain-based consulting integrates neuroscience to optimize mental capabilities and foster deeper cognitive engagement, while traditional coaching typically focuses on goal achievement without leveraging scientific insights into brain function.