The Brain-Based Trigger Reset-Coach Edition
THE BRAIN-BASED TRIGGER RESET
Coach Practice Edition
✨ Created by MindContinuum by Dr. David MacIntyre Consulting
Help coaching clients understand what happens inside the brain and nervous system when they feel triggered—and give them a practical method for moving from automatic reaction toward regulation, reflection, and intentional choice.
This professionally designed three-page digital resource translates brain-based concepts into accessible language and practical, coaching-friendly exercises. Use it during coaching sessions or provide it to clients for continued reflection between meetings.
✅ WHAT’S INCLUDED
🧠 A client-friendly explanation of the brain’s protective response
⏱️ The five-step, 90-second RESET regulation exercise
🔄 Fight, flight, freeze, collapse, appease, and connection responses
📝 A reusable Personal Trigger Map reflection worksheet
🌱 A personalized nervous-system reset plan
🔐 A single-coach practice license for use with individual coaching clients
📥 Immediate PDF access following purchase
🌿 THE RESET METHOD
🔹 Recognize
🔹 Exhale
🔹 Scan and Orient
🔹 Expand Awareness
🔹 Take One Choice
The RESET method helps clients slow an automatic protective response, reconnect with the present moment, and identify a small, values-based next step.
👥 WHO THIS RESOURCE IS FOR
This resource may be especially helpful for:
• Life and personal-development coaches
• Wellness and health coaches
• Relationship and communication coaches
• ADHD and executive-function coaches
• Grief and recovery coaches
• Career and leadership coaches
• LGBTQIA+ coaches
• Coaches who teach emotional regulation, boundaries, self-awareness, or intentional decision-making
📄 PRODUCT DETAILS
• Three-page printable PDF
• US Letter size
• Digital product—no physical item will be shipped
• Immediate download following purchase
• Designed for adult educational and coaching use
• Includes a single-coach practice license
🔐 COACH PRACTICE LICENSE
Purchase grants one coach permission to print or digitally provide this resource to their own individual coaching clients for educational, reflective, and coaching use.
The resource may not be shared with colleagues, uploaded to shared drives or resource libraries, modified, redistributed, sublicensed, or resold. Coaching teams, training programs, organizations, and other multi-user settings require a separate license.
⚠️ IMPORTANT SCOPE STATEMENT
This resource is intended for education, self-awareness, reflection, values clarification, goal development, and everyday self-regulation within an appropriate coaching relationship.
It is not psychotherapy, diagnosis, trauma treatment, crisis intervention, or medical care. Coaches are responsible for practicing within their training, credentials, applicable laws, and professional scope and for referring clients to an appropriate licensed professional when a client’s needs extend beyond coaching.
👨⚕️ ABOUT THE CREATOR
Dr. David MacIntyre, Psy.D., LPC, is a licensed professional counselor, consultant, author, educator, and Director of Training & Development with more than 30 years of experience in mental health.
Through MindContinuum by Dr. David MacIntyre Consulting, he creates practical, professionally designed resources that make complex brain, nervous-system, emotional, and behavioral concepts easier to understand and use.
🌱 Give your coaching clients a clear way to understand activation, reconnect with the present moment, and choose what comes next.
Download The Brain-Based Trigger Reset: Coach Practice Edition today.
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