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BrainWise and Facelessness: The Internet’s “Gyges Effect”

Individuals who have mastered the 10 Wise Ways recognize that lizard brain reactions drive the behaviors of individuals who attack others anonymously with hateful, bigoted, racist, and misogynist tweets and Internet posts. When police contact individuals who send these types...

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Matt Sena Joins the BrainWise Board of Directors!

Matt started teaching BrainWise as an undergraduate at the University of Northern Colorado, and wrote his Masters Thesis on BrainWise and Young Fatherhood. He earned a second Masters degree in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of Alaska, and currently is...

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BrainWise Trainings Add 400 Instructors in Three Weeks

[caption id="attachment_693" align="alignnone" width="300"] "Teachers Get Trained in BrainWise[/caption] [caption id="attachment_695" align="alignnone" width="300"] Example of BrainWise Training Small Group Activity[/caption] [caption id="attachment_696" align="alignnone" width="300"] Brain Activity with Teachers[/caption] BrainWise founder Pat Gorman Barry and trainers Christine Cerbana and Matt Sena...

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Tactile Brain Helps Blind Students Learn BrainWise

[wr_row][wr_column span="span12"][wr_text]Karyn Singley Blair, Master BrainWise instructor and school psychologist at Aurora Central High School in Aurora, Colorado, uses a tactile brain developed by Tina Pratt, vision specialist, to teach BrainWise to blind students. Different textures of yarn represent 1)...

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BrainWise Instructors Provide Feedback

Marty MacDonald, a market research consultant in Leipzig, Germany, visited Denver and interviewed BrainWise Instructors to find out what they think about ways to expand the program, strategies to use social media to promote it, and designs for a one-page...

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