BrainWorks: A Toolbox for the Mind
Class: Repeats in Spring | This course is completed
BrainWorks is a 7-week, interactive workshop that introduces a journalistic version of neural plasticity--the fact that we grow brain and we guide and direct that brain growth throughout our whole lives. Participants will receive a copy of the BrainWorks Toolbox and an opportunity to choose ways to apply the toolbox including, but not limited to, topics like: Slowing and Reversing Aging; Improving Memory, Focus and Concentration; Creating Wellness; Weight Loss; Recovery from Stroke, TBI, Cancer; Improving Communication and Finding Common Ground.
Jill Wilks
After 35 years teaching and writing neural plasticity at Southern Utah University, Jill retired early to allow travel time to present her book, Your Expanding Intelligence, to leaders in medicine, mental health, education and government. But instead, she was a passenger in a high-speed accident and spent 13 years using neural plasticity and the BrainWorks Toolbox to recover from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The course that Jill designed and implemented at SUU included new students, faculty, and staff from across campus. When student success rates soared, the administration made the course required for graduation and faculty/staff training. Jill is now back from the TBI, recovering from recovery and rewriting BrainWorks for the unlimited applications of plasticity beyond school, work and wellness.