Guardian MasterclassesThe Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well with renowned neuroscientist Daniel Levitin
Learn what you can do to maintain a strong body, mind and spirit throughout your life, with the expert guidance of Dr Daniel Levitin
Online workshop
Date: Friday 21 August 2020
Times: 6.30pm-8.30pm (BST)
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This online workshop is part of our new, exciting range of digital masterclasses that we are offering. In this live online workshop, you will have the opportunity to engage in real time with our brilliant course tutors, as well as other participants – with additional pre and post-course support from our learning team. To celebrate the launch, we are offering a very limited supply of introductory early bird tickets for each event, discounted up to 25% – once they’re gone, they’re gone!
We all want to age healthily, in mind and body, but the world is hardly built for peace and gentleness. Our careers and personal lives are fast and competitive; we spend much of our time stressed or distracted. So how can we ensure we’re on track to a healthy, strong later life?
In this online lecture-style masterclass with neuroscientist and cognitive psychologist Dr Daniel Levitin, you will be given the realistic guidelines for the best cognitive enhancing tricks that work for everyone.
Daniel’s Sunday Times bestselling book, The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Ageing Well, draws on thousands of recent papers on how the brain changes at different ages, and in this class he will challenge the beliefs that surround the ageing process, including our assumptions around memory loss and our focus on lifespan over “healthspan”.
What can we do to maintain strength of body, mind and spirit throughout our lives? What can we learn from those who age joyously? This is an essential masterclass for anyone looking to base the quality of their future on science.
The Changing Mind is available to purchase with your ticket if you live in the UK.
Course content
What - and when - to eat to live healthier
Why retirement may not be good for you
Why having lots of friends is critical to happiness
How practical intelligence increases with age
Why people who regularly practice gratitude seldom experience negative emotions
How the creative arts can help to keep our brains flexible and active
You will be sent a link to the online workshop 1hr before the start time of 6.30pm (BST).
Tutor profile
Dr Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, is a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bestselling author. He is Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco, and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University. He is the bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, and A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics.
You will be sent a link to the online workshop 1hr before the start time of 6.30pm (BST).
Details
This course has now passed, but you can be the first to know about the next one - and other workshops like this - by signing up to our newsletter here.
Date: Friday 21 August 2020
Times: 6.30pm-8.30pm (BST)
Price: Early bird ticket price of £28.80 (plus £1.91 booking fee), or £43.80 with a copy of The Changing Mind (plus 2.59 booking fee); standard ticket price of £36 (plus £2.24 booking fee), or £51 with a copy of The Changing Mind (plus £2.93 booking fee)*
Event capacity: 100
*(Book plus ticket prices include P&P. Please note that we only deliver to UK addresses. The Changing Mind RRP is £18.99.)
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