Unlock the Brain’s Built-In Pathway for Lasting Change

Counselors, Executive Coaches, Pastors, Leaders or other helping professionals:

Few models reach the emotional roots driving someone’s struggles. Learn how to harness relational experiences and cutting-edge affective neuroscience to create breakthroughs that are effortless, sustainable, and life-giving.

Unlock the Brain’s Built-In Pathway for Lasting Change

Counselors, Executive Coaches, Pastors, or Helping Professionals:

Few models reach the emotional roots driving their struggles. Learn how to harness relational experiences and cutting-edge affective neuroscience to create breakthroughs that are effortless, sustainable, and life-giving.

A Cutting-Edge Map for Deep, Lasting Change

The NeuroChange Pathway gives you a clear, neuroscience-informed way to make your current approach more powerful, precise, and transformational:

8 NeuroChange Strategies™

Move beyond symptom management by engaging the brain’s built-in mechanisms of Memory Reconsolidation to update old, limiting emotional learning.

8 NeuroRelational Skills™

Cultivate the kind of presence, curiosity, and empathy using Dyadic Affect Regulation that people’s nervous systems experience as safe, seen, and deeply understood.

4 NeuroAssessment Techniques™

Cut through complexity to see where change is blocked, and design interventions that fit each person’s unique wiring using Response Specificity.

Supercharge Your Change Engine and Stand Out as a Professional!

Hi, I’m Scott Makin.

Are you ready to take the transformation you bring to others to an entirely new level?

At the Makin Institute for NeuroChange, we are revolutionizing the way helping professionals approach growth and transformation.

We’ve created an innovative, science-backed approach integrating insights from over 90 academic disciplines and research domains with central biblical principles. It’s called the NeuroChange Pathway to Transformation™, built on the revolutionary Relational Brain Change Model™.

This model isn’t just about helping people make adjustments—it’s about achieving profound, lasting breakthroughs in areas once thought unreachable.

Questions about the NeuroChange Pathway in your context?

Schedule a 15-minute discovery call to explore how we can help.

How Jesus Used These Neuroscience Strategies and Techniques

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Discover the Relational Brain Change Model™

4 Easy Ways to Get Started

Ready for deeper self-understanding? Take the Makin Institute Personality Profile (MIPP) to identify your strengths, growth needs, and the patterns that shape your life—and discover where real transformation begins.

These 75-minute experiential workshops explore key elements of the NeuroChange Pathway. The Makin Institute is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7487).

With minimal time and financial commitment, gain one of our two certifications and start creating lasting transformation. Join the top 5% of professionals applying cutting-edge neuroscience in their practice.

Find the rare space where you are truly seen, accepted, and supported. Our Process Growth Groups offer emotionally safe relationships and skilled facilitation to help you move from surviving to flourishing.

Unlock Your Potential as a Certified NeuroChange Professional

Launching January 5, 2026, the NeuroChange Professional Certification is your path to deeper, more consistent client breakthroughs.

Using the Relational Brain Change Model, you’ll master neuroscience-driven tools that address underlying emotional structures—not just surface behaviors. Rooted in biblical principles and designed for modern helping professionals, this certification will transform your practice and amplify your impact.

Seats are limited for this career-defining training.

Where Neuroscience Meets Transformational Coaching

Elevate your coaching with a neuroscience-powered approach that goes far beyond goals and behavior change.

The NeuroChange Coach Certification trains you to work at the emotional and neural core—rewiring patterns, not just managing them—so clients experience deep, sustainable transformation.

Ideal for new and experienced coaches ready to integrate cutting-edge brain science with powerful, relational presence.

What others are saying

“As I've implemented the NeuroChange Strategies I learned at the Makin Institute, my clients have been coming to a place of personal discovery and more profound healing faster than I thought possible. I’ve been in awe of the significant life changes I've witnessed in those I've worked with since earning my NeuroChange Professional Certification.”

“This immersive experience is similar in my mind to those changes in life that have you knowing that something is profoundly, holistically different but somehow unable to capture its full scope immediately. However, in time, the dynamic impact becomes clearer.”

“The Immersive Training Program is a stroke of genius. It combines practical training and personal/professional growth. I would not hesitate to recommend this program to anyone who wants to be a better leader and a better person."

“The NeuroChange Professional Certification has been nothing shy of fantastic! It has helped me grow personally and professionally. As a counselor, it has helped me deepen my understanding, connection, and interventions with my clients.”

“This course exceeded my expectations! Readings, role-plays, and interactions with classmates allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of my clients. The course goes beyond understanding, though, teaching how to put that understanding into action to facilitate client growth.”

“I personally experienced how powerful the right-brain-to-right-brain attunement was for facilitating transformational change. I also saw myself grow in areas I didn’t realize I needed so much. My cohort was the best. They provided such a safe space, and I learned from each of them in our virtual classroom and through their posting online.”

“The NeuroChange Professional Certification was one of the best investments I've ever made in my personal and professional development. This is cutting-edge relational science made simple and accessible. It’s a little bit of genius.”

New Workshop! The Kind of Friend We are Secretly Craving, January 20, 7-8:15 pm EST

Unlock the Brain’s Built-In Pathway for Lasting Change

Counselors, Executive Coaches, Pastors, Leaders or other helping professionals:

Few models reach the emotional roots driving someone’s struggles. Learn how to harness relational experiences and cutting-edge affective neuroscience to create breakthroughs that are effortless, sustainable, and life-giving.