Mindbridge Institute 2024 Courses

Bridging Divides: Supporting Loved Ones Against Extremist Ideologies

Bridging Divides: Supporting Loved Ones
Against Extremist Ideologies

Join us for Bridging Divides: Supporting Loved Ones Against Harmful Ideologies, a live online course designed to help community members understand the dangers of extremist thinking and offer strategies for engaging in respectful, constructive conversations. We’ll explore how extremist beliefs spread, how to identify early warning signs, and how to offer support to loved ones while also challenging harmful ideas.

Sign up today to protect your advocacy work and the people who power it.

Cost: $45

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MindMatters: Harnessing Neuroscience for Human Rights Advocacy

Course Overview

MindMatters is a 6-week interactive seminar series designed to cross the threshold between neuroscience, psychology, and human rights. Throughout this course, HRDs will:

  • Learn the fundamental mechanisms underlying human behavior, providing insight as to how programming and media can be reimagined using neuropsychological applied science- all delivered week by week.

  • Engage in hands-on exercises designed to allow participants to integrate key insights directly into their work.

  • Receive the MindMatters Workbook containing a summary of all modules and a collection of exercises and handouts to share with your organization.

  • Become a MindMatters Fellow and access the MindMatters Community Group - a community platform providing ongoing support and resources following completion of the course.

Cost: $495 for 6-week course

Week by Week Overview

  • Participants will be introduced to the neuropsychology of implicit processes and how these processes are actualized on a day-to-day basis.

  • Empathy is not always what it seems. Understanding empathic processes, how we have been engaging with empathy incorrectly, empathic opportunities, and the path to better programming.

  • Explore the fundamental mechanisms of psychology and neuroscience associated with authoritarianism and extremist ideology.

  • It’s not about the facts. Neuropsych concepts and strategies for understanding and counteracting misinformation.

  • Fellow’s Choice! Participants will have the opportunity to choose between community-based outreach, media, and communication development, or program design and implementation as their focus for the week as they integrate foundational concepts into the applied realm.

  • In the final week, participants will redesign their initial project through a step-by-step process, applying neuropsychological concepts from weeks 1-5. They will reflect on their initial understanding and incorporate their "ah-ha moments" to enhance their project for better outcomes and positive change.