Promoting Cognitive Health
Bridge for Brain Health promotes cognitive health through the game of bridge. We are a non-profit organization focused on helping senior improve their mental well being by offering bridge lessons and bridge play with a growth mindset.
We apply Professor Carol Dweck's research on growth mindsets to the teaching and the play of bridge to provide tangible examples of how new skills can be developed with effort. Bridge is a social mindsport. Playing bridge and developing relationships with your partners is a joy. Teaching bridge with a growth mindset accelerates learning and increases resiliency. Improving bridge skills with effort helps seniors recognize they can apply a growth mindset to build skills in many areas of their life.
Meet the Founders
David and Maureen Loeb are directors, teachers, and expert players. In their high-tech management careers, David and Maureen mentored colleagues to help them achieve their career goals. As bridge club manageers, David and Maureen's teaching style helped bridge inculcate a growth mindset. David and Maureen reinforced that bridge skill, like any life skill, can be increased with effort. Players can improve at their own pace and enjoy playing bridge all along the process. The growth mindset of the players positioned them to see errors as learning opportunites. Players asked themselves what could I have done differently? What clues were available to suggest a better option? Mentors focused their praise on the process rather than the result as Professor Carol Dweck advises. Focusing on the process helps promote a growth mindset, accerates learning, and increases resiliency.
The progress players see at the bridge table encourages them to apply a growth mindset to other life skills.