Lifelines: The Brain Injury Wellness and Recovery Group
meeting at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas.
The January meeting is scheduled for Monday, the 10th, from 6:30 – 8:00 PM.
Happy New Year and welcome to the future! It's a new decade and our 10th anniversary season. WOW. To celebrate, we'll re-visit some of our most popular topics and speakers. In addition, Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic, will be here in the fall. (If you'd like to make a contribution towards his travel costs, please contact me).
Let’s start 2011 off with a BANG by asking the following question…
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN YOU THINK?
Doing well on IQ tests is no real determinant of how successful you will be or even of how smart you actually are. There is more to intellect than logical, verbal, numerical, and spatial ability. Other, more “hidden” types of intelligence, which are difficult to quantify or qualify, are no less essential to our being able to solve problems and otherwise negotiate the challenges life throws at us.
What is intelligence? In its purest sense, intelligence is understood to be the cognitive ability to understand events or information, then process this information rationally in order to respond appropriately to what is happening around us.
Text from Clare Gordon’s Are You Smarter Than You Think?
Join Lifelines: The Brain Injury Wellness and Recovery Group on January 10th to find out if you ARE smarter than you think. We will be testing our abilities (with some tests similar to standard neuropsychological ones, so if you are curious as to what these tests look like, here’s your chance to experience them) and then exploring ways to improve our mental functioning. We’ll look at Conceptual Intelligence, Personal Intelligence and Creative Intelligence.
Please send a reply email to Kimberly Aikman (aikmank@gmail.com) or call 214 289 0286 so we know to expect you.
Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas is located on Walnut Hill Lane, just east of U.S. 75 (Central Expressway). The meetings are in the
*note room change back to Classroom A
When turning into the campus from Walnut Hill, the best route of entry may be the driveway prior to the light. The Fogelson Building is to the right when facing the main hospital entrance, and is next to the Margot Perot Center. Using the underground parking is the easiest way to reach the meeting location; if entering from the main floor, cross the foyer (past the stairs) and take the elevators to the ground floor. Classroom A is to the left off the elevators.
Remember that parking is now free! Be sure to get your validation sticker at the start of the meeting.
Neither Lifelines: The Brain Injury Wellness and Recovery Group nor Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas support, endorse or recommend any method, treatment, or a program for persons with a brain injury. The intent of the group is to provide support and make information available. Attendance in the group is not a substitute for an informed discussion between a patient and his/her health care provider. No endorsement is intended nor implied.
