The Good Wolf Project- Know Your Brain. Live Better.

This holiday season, consider donating to Good Wolf. Good Wolf teaches neuroscience to open people’s minds to self-reflection, growth, and living their best lives. We teach listening to one other and growing in positive prosocial ways. We teach neuroscience to help people transform their lives.

In 2022, several milestones elevated Good Wolf to a new level:

--We developed and launched a powerful new website (www.goodwolf.org).
--Our 18-month proof-of-concept demonstration project was a tremendous success. Click this link https://youtu.be/5frcrexBgR0to see a video about our work and its impact.
--Good Wolf’s mission and work were endorsed by neuroscientists worldwide at the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in San Diego in November.
--We have created a three-year strategic plan as a blueprint for the growth and sustainability of our work in our three areas of focus: (1) individuals, families, and communities, (2) organizations and institutions, and (3) public policy.

In 2023 we plan to:

--Leverage the engagement of neuroscientists worldwide to guide and grow our impact;
--Expand our reach through new programs targeting additional audiences, specifically at-risk adolescents;
--Build our online community with webinars and other educational offerings;
--Launch Good Wolf Public Policy Working Groups to bring neuroscience insights into public policies in critical areas, initially targeting poverty, homelessness, and climate change;
--Build the Good Wolf organization to support work in all areas, assuring sustainability and maximizing impact.

We hope you will consider including Good Wolf in your end-of-year giving. Your support will enable Good Wolf to move from potential and promise to implementation and impact.

We pledge to use all gifts to maximize the impact on people’s lives as we work to carry out the mission of Good Wolf.
Click here to give: https://good-wolf.snwbll.com/giving-portal

Alternatively, TEXT “good” to (914) 915-8060 or use the QR code at the end of this email. Thank you again for your generous support. We wish you and your loved ones a safe and healthy holiday season and a flourishing New Year.

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 – 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘂𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁.

Much of our brain's work – including many of our decisions – occur without our conscious awareness.

Our brainstem’s medulla controls respiration and modulates our heart rate, without needing conscious input. Coughing, sneezing, and blinking reflexes happen too quickly for conscious awareness.

Regulation of body temperature and blood pressure – as well as decisions about drinking, eating, and sexual behaviors – are initiated by our hypothalamus. Many social or group behaviors are initiated in our limbic system, including areas such as our amygdala, hippocampus, and cingulate gyrus.

All these decisions arise from our non-conscious brain, usually coming into our conscious awareness only when we need to take action.

Find out more: https://goodwolf.org/web/brain-in-control/