Workshops

An evidence-based talk that clarifies the difference between stress and anxiety and teaches practical tools for regulating the body, reframing the mind, and responding with greater flexibility. Participants gain a deeper understanding of how stress responses work and learn skills for navigating everyday challenges with greater awareness and choice.

An evidence-based talk by a neuropsychologist specializing in memory and brain health, focused on keeping memory strong across the lifespan. This talk dispels common myths about memory and aging and explores how attention, meaning, lifestyle, and emotional health influence memory functioning. Emphasis is placed on memory fitness, prevention, and long-term brain wellness rather than quick fixes or cures.

This talk explores midlife and menopause through a neuropsychological lens, reframing common experiences such as anxiety, low mood, and cognitive changes as part of a significant brain-based transition rather than personal or psychological failure. Drawing on current neuroscience and clinical understanding, Dr. Goodman challenges deficit-based narratives of midlife and offers a more compassionate, meaningful framework for understanding mental health during this stage of life.

Lessons from The Golden Girls

Midlife is a period when many women experience profound shifts in relationships, roles, and sources of support—often alongside increased stress, caregiving demands, and hormonal change. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, and women’s mental health research, this talk explores why social connection is not a “nice to have,” but a biological and psychological necessity in midlife. Using The Golden Girls as a cultural lens, Dr. Goodman illustrates how shared connection, humor, and being known buffer stress, support emotional regulation, and protect mental health. The talk reframes connection as a form of preventive mental health care and invites a more intentional, compassionate approach to relationships during midlife.

Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, and research on aging, this talk explores how brain health is shaped over time by culture, connection, and everyday practices. Rather than focusing on intervention after decline begins, it reframes brain resilience as something built gradually across the lifespan through relationships, learning, meaning, rest, caregiving, and intergenerational engagement.

This talk presents Dor L’Dor—from generation to generation—as a Jewish cultural model of brain resilience. Integrating neuroscience with lived experience, Dr. Goodman explores how Jewish practices—learning, connection, meaning, rhythm, responsibility, and intergenerational transmission—support brain health long before illness or decline emerge. Dor L’Dor reframes resilience not as an individual response to crisis, but as a shared, intergenerational responsibility embedded in everyday Jewish life.