BrainWorks

Schedule of Events

The Importance of Caring for Your Brain
The term “Brain Health” is popping up everywhere yet often times is misunderstood. Join us for this presentation to learn the basics of a brain healthy lifestyle and what makes this an important part of
staying young and keeping you and your family healthy.

January 13 and March 31, 2009, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., lunch is provided, $25

Positive Aging Conference
This conference is designed to create meaning and expanded vitality in the second half of life. This day long re-broadcasted web-conference brings some nationally known authors and speakers together to share tools, resources, and their perspective on meaning, aging, purpose, and vitality through the years. Call and ask if you are eligible for CE credits.

Thursday, January 22, 2009, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., lunch is provided, $50

Forgiveness
We all have experienced pain, disappointment, conflict in life and in love. Many of us long for peace and closure around the unresolved hurts that we have been subject to, or may even have caused. 

Better understand the power of forgiveness, the important role it has in our lives, and the three steps you can take toward forgiveness.

Facilitator: Rosemary Cox, LCSW

January 29, 2009, 7 – 9:30 p.m., $45

Brain Gymnastics
Exercise your brain through a routine of skill building, positive attitude development, and expanded mental flexibility, confidence, optimism and humor. Join the ranks of the world’s greatest thinkers – enrich your mind.

Classes are a combination of presentations and the opportunity to try some brain building strategies.

Instructor: Rosemary Cox, LCSW

Classes are held every Tuesday from February 10 to March 31, 2009, 6 – 8:30 p.m., $149

Exploring Spirituality
Spirituality has many meanings to many people.  We believe spitituality is your personal sense of how you see yourself in the context of a larger belief and value system, perhaps a philosophy of living, and an outlook and perspective on your relationship and fit in a context larger than just our physical bodies. 

This program is designed as a starting point to explore spirituality and what it may mean to you, and how to begin to bring spirituality into your life.

Presenter: Barbara A. Wilson, MDiv, MA, BCC  Director, Spiritual Care Services, Memorial Hospital

Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 10 – 11:30 a.m., $15

Is It All In Your Head?
Forgetting names?
Can’t find your car?
Forgot what you wanted from the other room?

You can train your mind at any age to enhance your memory. Lean how information is stored, the relationship between sleep and stress on forgetfulness, and strategies you can use to improve the formation and retrieval of memories.

If you want to remember it, we’ll show you how.

Instructor: Rosemary Cox, LCSW

Held every Tuesday from February 10 to March 24, 2009 from 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., $149

Circuits Overloaded: Watt's Right for You?
Stress is similar to electricity. When you find your correct voltage you are illuminated and filled with energy. Too much stress overloads your circuits and negatively impacts different systems throughout your body, including your brain.

This series will provide you with a series of stress management techniques to help you find the one for you. Burn brightly without burning out!

Instructor: Rosemary Cox, LCSW

Held every Wednesday from February 25 to April 1, 2009 from 5:30 – 8 p.m., $149

Life Mapping: Designing Vibrant Lives
Are you...

• in the midst of transitions?
• overwhelmed by the many roles, expectations, and demands for your time?
• ready to take control and create the future you've always wanted.

If yes, Life Mapping can help you:

• Identify where you are in an understandable and predictable cycle of change
• Gain clarity and detail on next steps
• Take home tips and tools to keep you focused.
• Have fun and benefit from the journey of others.

Friday, April 17, 2009, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., $225

Meditation: Developing a Meaningful Practice
Meditation is has a positive impact on stress management, quality sleep, overall performance, and can help with achieving inner peace.

This program is developed to help you create a meaningful meditation practice. Designed for for the beginner or intermediate meditator, learn about research on meditation and its connection to brain health. And, experience different meditation methods to help you choose the meditation style that is right for you.

Facilitator: Don Gentner, LCSW

This is a four-session series meeting on April 21, May 6, May 19 and June 2 at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $85. Sessions are held at the Holy Cross Village Andre House.

Tai Chi
Tai Chi is an ideal exercise for lifelong well-being and brain health. The movement patterns and a simplified form of  the traditional Yang Style Tai Chi is offered.

This approach builds from simple to complex patterns of functional movement while preserving the essence of Tai Chi. Tai Chi enhances physical alignment, balance, relaxation shills, and mental focus.

Held every Tuesday from October 16 through December 18, from 6 – 7 p.m., $45

HeartMath© Solution
We each may experience stress differently. Yet, in our bodies, stress is a chemical reaction that has the ability to interfere with our general health, happiness, cognitive abilities, performance, and relationships.

HeartMath is a solution that focuses on the communication occurring between your brain and heart during stress. It provides the research, techniques, and an optional personal device to help you both understand the dynamics of stress and to learn concrete ways to impact the reaction occurring in your body.

Instructor: Deborah Drendall, Certified HeartMath Instructor.

Two-part program – March 23 and March 30, 4 – 6 p.m., $149

Monthly Book Club
Read and discuss a wide variety of books, many available at your local library. Meet new people! 

1/7/09 -  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
 
2/4/09 - Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

3/4/09 - Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein

4/1/09 - Aging With Grace by David Snowdon, PhD