Older adults participating in a lively facilitated BrainingUP™ activity
Engaging in-person programs for adults 65+

Having fun while your brain gets a workout.

BrainingUP™ brings fully facilitated cognitive engagement programs to senior centers, residential communities, active-adult communities, and private groups across Connecticut.

Live facilitationGroup participationTailored in real time
01. Our programs

Four ways to bring minds—and people—into the room.

Every program is live, facilitated, social, and built around active participation. The difference is where each experience begins.

Illustration of ideas and puzzles taking shape
Program 01

BrainBoosters

Curious about how the mind works?

Participants discover how attention, memory, habits, and behavior work, then put those ideas into action through lively team challenges.

A visual path of curiosity, learning, and discovery
Program 02

BrainStretches

Enjoy discovering a new subject each week?

Presentations, conversation, and Q&A lead into games that reinforce what participants have just learned.

Adults learning and exchanging ideas together
Program 03

ActiveLearning

Have participants who love choosing topics?

Participants bring their interests into the room. BrainingUP™ shapes what they contribute into the next discussion, challenges, and games.

A group participating in a tabletop challenge
Program 04

BrainFlex

Looking for immediate energy and participation?

Fast-moving games put focus, sequencing, memory, language, imagination, and flexible thinking into action.

For activity directors and coordinators

We prepare the experience. You choose the date.

BrainingUP™ designs, prepares, and personally facilitates every session. Tell us about your participants, their interests, and your schedule—we’ll help identify the right fit.

Introduce BrainingUP™
A facilitator presenting to an engaged group
Designed for your group · Facilitated in person
02. The BrainingUP™ experience

Welcoming enough to join. Engaging enough to matter.

Programs are designed around the people in the room, with challenge, connection, and play working together.

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In person

Conversation and participation develop naturally when people share the experience together.

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Personally facilitated

We guide the session, invite participation, and keep the experience moving from beginning to end.

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Adaptive

Pacing, difficulty, and emphasis adjust to the people in the room—not a rigid script.

Adults exchanging ideas in a facilitated discussion
Learning disguised as fun.
BrainingUP™ participant
03. Explore BrainingUP™ for your community

Tell us about your participants. We’ll help you find the right program.

Start with a conversation.

You do not need to choose a program before contacting us.

203-380-2056