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📚 PULSE Method · PULSE Self-Coaching — Dimension: Intellectual

What if you kept
growing intellectually
throughout your life?

An Intellectual Project means deciding to keep learning, questioning, creating and sharing — and refusing intellectual obsolescence. Intellectual Self-Coaching gives you a structured method to organise your intellectual development, at your own pace, over 6 months.

✅ 100% self-paced — no individual or live sessions included
🔒 Secure payment (Stripe or PayPal)
🌍 Available in English and French
6
MONTH PROGRAMME
Intellectual Self-Coaching
What you'll build:
✦ Your multiple intelligences profile
✦ A growth mindset
✦ Methods for learning how to learn
✦ A reading plan
✦ Organised intellectual monitoring
✦ Sharing your knowledge
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Weeks of pathway

Do you recognise yourself
in any of these situations?

You love learning. But daily life has taken over and your curiosity is running in slow motion.

📵

You're no longer really learning

Training feels far away, books are left unfinished: your learning stopped with your studies.

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"I'm not cut out for this"

Some beliefs about your abilities keep you from exploring new subjects.

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Lots of information, little knowledge

You consume plenty of content without retaining or connecting it.

📚

Your reading has no direction

You read at random, with no plan or goal.

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Your curiosity is fading

The questions that used to drive you are becoming rare.

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Your knowledge stays with you

You'd like to pass on what you know, without knowing how.

Intellectual Self-Coaching is
your learning compass

Built on the PULSE method — the proprietary 8-dimension framework of human excellence — this 6-month, fully self-paced pathway helps you make learning a lifelong practice, with no webinars and no groups.

01

Discover your profile

The 8 forms of intelligence (Howard Gardner) and the growth mindset (Carol Dweck).

02

Learn how to learn

Learning methods and neuroscience, a learning journal and a reading plan.

03

Cultivate curiosity and critical thinking

Curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, intellectual monitoring and sharing knowledge.

04

Organise your development

Audit, 4-quadrant portrait, 3-horizon vision, SMART goals, development plan and dashboard.

6 months. 6 chapters. 5 steps.
A complete pathway.

Part 1 (months 1 and 2): 6 training chapters to understand and analyse. Part 2 (months 3 to 6): 5 self-coaching steps to assess, decide and act. Programme taken from the PULSE Self-Coaching pathway — Intellectual dimension.

M1
Intellectual foundations
Month 1 · Foundations
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  • ▸ Chapter 1 — Intelligence in 2025: the 8 forms (Howard Gardner)
  • ▸ Exercise 1 — Your multiple intelligences profile
  • ▸ Chapter 2 — The growth mindset (Carol Dweck)
  • ▸ Exercise 2 — Fixed or growth mindset?
M2
Methods and practices
Month 2 · Practice
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  • ▸ Chapter 3 — Learning how to learn: methods and neuroscience (learning journal, reading plan)
  • ▸ Chapter 4 — Curiosity, creativity and critical thinking
  • ▸ Chapter 5 — Intellectual monitoring and information management (Exercise 5)
  • ▸ Chapter 6 — Sharing your knowledge: teaching in order to learn (Exercises 6 to 9)
M3
Audit and portrait
Month 3 · Clarity
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  • ▸ Step 1 — Audit of your current intellectual life
  • ▸ Exercise 10 — My intellectual wheel
  • ▸ Step 2 — Intellectual portrait in 4 quadrants
  • ▸ Exercise 11 — My intellectual commitment statement (start)
M4
Assessment and vision
Month 4 · Direction
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  • ▸ Step 3 — Assessment: 7 dimensions of intellectual health
  • ▸ Step 4 — 3-horizon vision and 5 SMART goals
M5
Plan and commitment
Month 5 · Action
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  • ▸ Step 5 — My intellectual development plan
  • ▸ The 6 golden rules of the intellectual developer
  • ▸ Intellectual dashboard — 7 indicators over 6 months
  • ▸ Exercise 12 — Quarterly review
M6
Review and projection
Month 6 · Anchoring
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  • ▸ Adjustments and celebration
  • ▸ Exercise 13 — Final review and looking ahead

Beyond the chapters,
you also get:

INCLUDED 1

🧭 Starting diagnostic

The self-coaching guide for this dimension and a self-assessment to establish your starting point.

✅ Included
INCLUDED 2

📖 In-depth reading

The reference text for this dimension, to read at the start of the programme.

✅ Included
INCLUDED 3

📅 6-month dashboard

Your tracking tool to measure your progress month after month.

✅ Included
INCLUDED 4

🏁 Final review and looking ahead

A final self-assessment to measure the distance travelled and prepare what comes next.

✅ Included

Before and after
Intellectual Self-Coaching

✗ Before
  • ✗ Learning on hold
  • ✗ Limiting beliefs about your abilities
  • ✗ Lots of information, little knowledge
  • ✗ Reading with no direction
  • ✗ Dormant curiosity
  • ✗ Knowledge kept to yourself
  • ✗ No development plan
✓ What you build
  • ✓ A known intelligence profile
  • ✓ A growth mindset you work on
  • ✓ Proven learning methods
  • ✓ A reading plan
  • ✓ Organised monitoring
  • ✓ Knowledge you share
  • ✓ A development plan you follow
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PULSE DIMENSIONS
Bertin Tchinda
Executive coach · Creator of the PULSE method · Author

Born in Mbouda, Cameroon, Bertin Tchinda has built a career across three continents.

Executive coach, creator of the PULSE method (the proprietary 8-dimension framework of human excellence), author of books translated into several languages, international speaker.

Intellectual Self-Coaching is the Intellectual dimension of the PULSE Self-Coaching Programme — 6 months of structured self-coaching designed by Bertin Tchinda. You follow it independently: no individual sessions are included.

24
weeks of structured pathway

Everything you need
to keep growing

COMPLETE PROGRAMME · PULSE METHOD
Intellectual Self-Coaching — 6 months
$297
One-time payment · No monthly fees · 6-month access
  • ✅ 6 months · 24 weeks of structured programme
  • ✅ 6 training chapters (Part 1)
  • ✅ 5 self-coaching steps (Part 2)
  • ✅ Practical exercises and reflection questions
  • ✅ Starting diagnostic and final review
  • ✅ 6-month progress dashboard
  • ✅ Available in English and French
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Self-paced · non-certifying · no individual sessions included

Questions?
Here are the answers.

Is this a group programme or does it include individual sessions?+
No. Intellectual Self-Coaching is 100% self-paced. No webinars, no groups, no individual or live sessions are included: you progress independently with the chapters, exercises and tools of the programme.
How is the programme organised?+
Over 6 months (24 weeks): Part 1 with 6 training chapters (months 1 and 2), then Part 2, self-coaching in 5 steps (months 3 to 6), from the starting diagnostic to the final review.
Does this programme lead to a certification or a diploma?+
No. Intellectual Self-Coaching is a non-certifying personal development programme. It helps you organise your own learning.
Is it suitable for parents supporting their children?+
The programme focuses on your own intellectual development. Chapter 6, on sharing knowledge, can enrich the way you pass knowledge on to those around you.
In which language is the content?+
The programme is available in English and French.
How do I access the programme?+
The programme is available now: click “Get the programme” for a secure one-time payment of USD 297 (card or PayPal) and 6 months of online access.
Are other Self-Coaching dimensions available?+
Yes. PULSE Self-Coaching covers 8 dimensions: Family, Finances, Health, Professional Life, Social Relationships, Spirituality, Intellectual and Leisure. Discover them on the Self-Coaching page.

Your mind never stops
being able to grow.

Don't let your curiosity fade for lack of method. This programme helps you make learning a lifelong habit.

✓ Immediate access after payment

$297 one-time payment · 6-month access