Question 1

Who created the Multi-Perspective Brain?

Accepted Answer

Margaret Moore — founder of Wellcoaches and co-founder of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate — in collaboration with Dr. Edward Phillips of Harvard Medical School. The model was first published in their 2016 book Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life, and was developed across two decades of Moore's executive and wellness coaching practice.

Question 2

What are the nine parts?

Accepted Answer

The Autonomy Seeker, Confident Self, Meaning Maker, Body Regulator, Curious Adventurer, Executive Manager, Standard Setter, Relational Self, and Creative Self. Each is described as a biological voice that evolved to meet a specific developmental need. The Creative Self is the integrating ninth voice that synthesises the other eight into emergent direction.

Question 3

How is MPB different from Internal Family Systems?

Accepted Answer

IFS, developed by Richard Schwartz for psychotherapy, treats parts as an open-ended field — clients discover whatever parts emerge in session. MPB is a specified nine-part model designed for coaching contexts: it gives coaches a structured vocabulary rather than asking them to navigate an open internal landscape. The two share intellectual heritage but operate in different scopes of practice — therapy in the case of IFS, coaching in the case of MPB.

Question 4

Is MPB evidence-based?

Accepted Answer

MPB sits on the empirical base of its component traditions — IFS, Positive Psychology, Self-Determination Theory, and the neuroscience of self-regulation — rather than on isolated experimental tests of the integrated nine-part model. It also operates within the broader Wellcoaches Protocol, which has been validated across more than twenty peer-reviewed studies. Direct experimental work on the integrated MPB model is an active research line at the Institute of Coaching.

Question 5

Where can I learn to coach using MPB?

Accepted Answer

The primary training is the Wellcoaches Core Coach Training and Certification, where MPB is integrated throughout the curriculum. Continuing education for experienced coaches is delivered through the Institute of Coaching's Harvard Masterclass series. A self-paced introduction is also available on Mindvalley's Evercoach platform as Margaret Moore's Holistic Coaching with Coach Meg.

Question 6

What is MPAI, and how does it relate?

Accepted Answer

MPAI — Multi-Perspective AI — is the 2024 platform extension that implements the nine-part methodology in software. It allows clients to take inventory of which parts are active between sessions, run internal roll calls, and arrive at coaching with structured self-awareness. It is designed as an extension of human coaching, not a replacement for it.

Question 7

How is MPB related to the Wellcoaches Protocol?

Accepted Answer

The Wellcoaches Protocol is the broader science- and neuroscience-based coaching model at the centre of all Wellcoaches programs; MPB is the parts-based architecture of personality that operates within it. In practice, MPB describes who is in the room — the nine voices of the client — while the Protocol describes how the conversation moves: the four positive forces of change, the generative moment, and the session shape.

Question 8

Can I use MPB on myself between coaching sessions?

Accepted Answer

Yes — that is one of the design intentions of the model. The MPAI platform exists specifically to make the nine-part inquiry available between sessions: tracking which parts are active, surfacing disagreements, and convening the Creative Self for integration. Many coaches also teach the model to clients explicitly so they can run a self-roll-call between sessions and arrive better prepared.

Question 9

How does MPB pair with GROW?

Accepted Answer

The two are commonly stacked. GROW (Whitmore) supplies the four-stage conversational structure — Goal, Reality, Options, Will — while MPB operates beneath it as the parts work that surfaces during the Reality stage. When a client has internal disagreement, MPB lets each voice finish a sentence; when alignment emerges, GROW carries the next step forward. Practitioners frequently use MPB to find the goal and GROW to commit to it.

Question 10

Who is MPB best suited for as a coaching client?

Accepted Answer

Clients in transition — career crossroads, leadership identity shifts, burnout recovery, midlife re-evaluation — and clients whose presenting issue is internal conflict more than external obstacle. MPB is most effective when the client cannot easily name what they want, or when two contradictory wants are both real. Pure performance contexts with a clear goal usually call for a more execution-oriented framework like GROW.

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