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What is Neurolanguage Coaching®?

Neurolanguage Coaching® incorporates the latest findings in neuroscience as well as principles and tools from coaching into the traditional process of language teaching.

Through neuroscience, we know that no two brains are the same, so neurolanguage coaching® is tailor-made learning to clients´ needs, without books, but with clear and structured targets to achieve in defined periods of time.

This method and approach create the perfect learning conditions for the brain leading to faster, more efficient, sustainable and cost-effective results. Our Language Coaches are the FIRST in the WORLD to be certified as INTERNATIONALLY ACCREDITED LANGUAGE COACHES (accredited by the ICF – International Coach Federation).

”Neurolanguage Coaching® is the efficient and fast transfer of language knowledge and skills from the Language Coach to the Language Coachee with sustainable effects facilitated by brain-based coaching and coaching principles and neuroscience.” © 2012 Rachel M. Paling

21st Century learners are different. We’ve all changed. Adults, teenagers, children. We are actually learning in a totally different way. 

We have seen learners who are very frustrated, who are embarrassed and are almost afraid to speak another language. 

Neurolanguage Coaching is about bringing coaching, science and neuroscience into the language learning process. 

It is about having coaches located worldwide who have trained to understand how the brain learns functions, how the brain learns, how we associate and connect those languages, and how embarrassment and fear can actually shut the brain down.

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What our clients have to say

Wonderful and Highly-Professional

Liz has been a wonderful and highly-professional teacher, leading our English lessons efficiently and proficiently. Her tailored approach has proved to be successful, and we really got along during our conversations. I’ve really enjoyed practising English with her, trying to stay on top of things and following her tips on how to improve my vocabulary and my knowledge of idiomatic expressions and phrasal verbs. I take the rap for any mistake in this review and I presume it will be hard for me to find another teacher like Liz!!

Francesco Masci (Liz Bufton’s coachee)
UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A - Italy

Dynamic, motivating and committed

Helen coached me in English when I was preparing to take an international job. She was instrumental in building my confidence to move into working in English. Dynamic, motivating and committed, Helen is a wonderful coach.

Magali Pretin - France (Helen Gournay’s coachee)
Responsable Ressources Humaines et Finance chez Enfants d'Asie

Informative, practical, and fun

I was new to Portuguese, and did not consider myself a natural language learner. Marília’s love of language and teaching, and her dedication to her passion, made lessons with her a delight. Every lesson with her just flew, the lessons were informative, practical, and fun. I never wanted the classes to end. Every class was designed to build on the last lesson, and Marília was open and happy to discuss learning challenges. After 5 weeks and almost daily lessons, I was amazed at what I had learned, and (2 months) later back in Australia, what I have retained. She is an outstanding teacher, outcome and detail focused. Marília often talked about the teacher / student relationship being a flexible partnership, that both contribute to for a common outcome, and to the individual goals also. I could not agree more. If you are lucky enough to have Marília as your teacher, it will be an experience you will never forget. I hope to be able to engage her again when I return to Brazil. She is simply the best you will find. (Christopher Bayliss, Australia – Marília Araujo Schmitz’s coachee)

Christopher Bayliss, Australia – (Marília Araujo Schmitz’s coachee)

Wonderful ideas to carry out in class

I´ve had the opportunity of taking Coaching sessions in Spanish with Catarina, and they proved to be really useful. Together we dived into the world of some of my high school students with entangled personal lives, which affect their process of learning at school. We got wonderful ideas to carry out in class, so the students could perceive different ways of learning as well as dealing with their attention and focus on their tasks and activities. (Catarina Mendes, Certified Professional Coach and Trainer, Portugal – Nora Vergara’s coachee)

Catarina Mendes, Certified Professional Coach and Trainer, Portugal – (Nora Vergara’s coachee)

Classes tailored perfectly according to your expectations

Struggling to find a course in Catalan that would meet my needs, I turned to Skype classes, and was lucky enough to get in touch with Mònica. She tailors the classes perfectly according to your expectations and previous knowledge, in a way that no course can match. With a great ability to create a learning environment that is encouraging and positive, Mònica’s enthusiasm and creativity turns learning into pleasure. Learning, and starting to speak, a new language has never been as easy, fun and fast. If you are looking to improve your Spanish or Catalan skills I can only urge you to contact Mònica. You will not regret it. 

Sanna Findahl, Urban Planner, Botkyrka Municipality, Sweden – (Monica Barnes’s coachee)

The Differences between Language Teaching and Neurolanguage Coaching ®

Language teaching classically places the learner in a passive role, in Neurolanguage Coaching ® the learner becomes much more active and takes much more responsibility for his/her own learning process. The notion of “ownership” becomes key, and the learner then finds him/herself empowered as his/her master/owner of the process. This in turn creates much more motivation and commitment to the whole process, as in the end, it boils down to the learner taking responsibility for the learning and the learning process.

Language teaching is much more directional, instructive and mandatory, language coaching assumes a more flexible, adaptable process, which is absolutely non-directive, but flows more through equal status conversations and dialogues, allowing the coachee to assimilate and then put the knowledge into practical use immediately. 

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How can we create brain-friendly compassionate communication?

A normal course of Neurolanguage Coaching ® lasts approximately three months. In the weekly sessions the coach will inspire and motivate the client in each phase of his/her development. In the first appointment, there is a short interview in which the coach identifies the client’s requirements. After this, the client will become aware of his/her own targets to be achieved in a predefined period of time. 

Each individual session normally lasts about one hour and the coach, using the Neurolanguage Coaching ® method, will move the client towards the achievement of his/her goals in a much faster time period compared to normal teaching and also effortlessly. After each meeting, the client decides if they would like to receive consolidation to work on autonomously, which will be discussed in the following session. Clients will always have the opportunity to contact our language coaches with any questions.

  • Face to face at location

  • Online face to face interactive through our online platforms or Zoom (24 hrs a day)

  • Blended learning – both face to face and online interactive

  • One/two-day intensive workshops

      *  One-to-one or Groups maximum of 4 persons recommended​

  • Face to face at location

  • Online face to face interactive through our online platforms or Zoom (24 hrs a day)

  • Blended learning – both face to face and online interactive

  • One/two-day intensive workshops

      *  One-to-one or Groups maximum of 4 persons recommended​

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The Impact of Neurolanguage Coaching ® on the Learner

Deeper understanding of the grammar and the language
Absolute awareness of mistakes as well as the development of the ability to self-correct
More awareness as to how the brain learns and how the learner him/herself learns best
Noticeable improvement leads to more inspiration and motivation to improve further

Internationally Recognised

Efficient Language Coaching is accredited by the ICF in the USA and have CPD Registered Provider status in the UK, so you can have complete confidence that our language coaches and trainers are qualified, accredited and follow internationally recognised coaching methods

Introducing rachel paling

MA, BA Hons, Cert. Tefl., Director of Efficient Language Coaching®, Professional Certified Coach (ICF), Corporate & Private Language Coach, Creator of Neurolanguage Coaching® and Neuroscientist

About Rachel

Rachel Paling

Founder and Director of Efficient Language Coaching®, Professional Certified Coach (ICF), Corporate & Private Language Coach, Creator of Neurolanguage Coaching® and Neuroscientist
About Rachel

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Neurolanguage Coaching: Brain Friendly Language Learning 

It seems that every day an exciting new discovery is made about the human brain. Neurolanguage Coaching® is a model that brings together crucial findings in the fields of neuroscience and integrates these into a coaching process to revolutionise language learning as we know it. 

Discover:

  • why the brain blocks when learning a language
  • which coaching and teaching methods are brain-friendly - and which are the brain zappers
  • how to harness principles of coaching and neuroscience to give your learner fantastic results, every time
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The Differences between Language Teaching and Neurolanguage Coaching

Language teaching classically places the learner in a passive role, in Neurolanguage Coaching the learner becomes much more active and takes much more responsibility for his/her own learning process. The notion of “ownership” becomes key, and the learner then finds him/herself empowered as his/her master/owner of the process. This in turn creates much more motivation and commitment to the whole process, as in the end, it boils down to the learner taking responsibility for the learning and the learning process.

Language teaching is much more directional, instructive and mandatory, language coaching assumes a more flexible, adaptable process, which is absolutely non-directive, but flows more through equal status conversations and dialogues, allowing the coachee to assimilate and then put the knowledge into practical use immediately.

Language Teaching traditionally is book-related, however, language coaching veers more to the freestyle of no books and no order of book topics, but more suited to the requirements of the coachee and the best possible way for the coachee to learn such requirements quickly and easily through whatever conversations/ actions are best suited to that coachee. It may be that some specific material can be utilized or parts of a book may be referred to, for consolidation or demonstration; this again depends on the specific needs and preference of the coachee or coach to enable the established goals to be reached.

The teacher is very much in the role of an expert within the language teaching process, often denoting a superior status, whereas the language coach acts as an absolute equal, who is also fully aware of his/her limitations and is not afraid to voice these if necessary. The language coach in addition is conscious of ethics and confidentiality and creates a trustful environment for the coachee to be able to approach sensitive topics and areas with the knowledge that all information remains within the session. This is extremely important for corporate clients and professionals, who are maybe taking language coaching sessions to improve their professional vocabulary and language in practice.

Language Coaching also creates the environment for an experiential, realistic and personalized approach whereas teaching often does not take into account the social context or cultural aspects of the coachee or how the coachee potentially interacts in these socio-cultural contexts. As already mentioned language coaching is geared towards tailor-making and adapting to the coachee him/herself and definitely veers towards a much more individualized and personalized process.

Finally, Neurolanguage Coaching also brings a code of ethics and principles which are well suited to the corporate and business world, bringing trust, intimacy and confidentiality into sessions.