Description
🧠 3-Hour Workshop
Equipping and Engaging Aging Minds
“Your mind still matters. Your growth still matters. Your contribution still matters.”
Purpose:
To strengthen memory, processing, and confidence while affirming that mental engagement is stewardship, not fear-driven prevention.
Encouragement: Faith + Brain Health (10 min)
Key messages:
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Aging is not decline-only—it’s growth with wisdom
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God designed the brain to adapt and learn
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Practicing mental skills honors the gifts we’ve been given
Brain Warm-Ups (Equipping Minds) (15 min)
Use easy-entry games: Deck of Playing Cards
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Visual attention
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Pattern recognition
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Simple recall
Memory in Scripture and Music (10 min)
Connect memory to music
Memory Games with Meaning (30 min)
Use Equipping Minds memory-based games:
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Visual recall
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Sequencing
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Association
After each game, connect to life:
Break (10 minutes)
Processing Speed, Focus & Cognitive Flexibility (45 minutes)
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Task-switching
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Timed decision-making
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Attention control games
Mind, Body & Spirit Connection (30 minutes)
Movement + Cognition Activities
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Movement + memory
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Directional or sequencing games
Practical Faith Habits for Brain Health
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Prayer as focus training
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Scripture reading as memory exercise
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Worship and singing as cognitive engagement
5️⃣ Reflection, Purpose & Application (30 minutes)
A. Small Group Discussion
Prompt questions:
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“What challenged you today?”
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“What gave you confidence?”
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“How can mental strength help you serve others?”
Take-Home Faith-Based Brain Practices
Provide a handout:
“Daily Mind Renewal Plan”
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30 minutes Equipping Minds games
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5 minutes Scripture reading
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5 minutes reflection or prayer
- Music
- Battling Dementia PDF
- Equipping Congregations to Support Children, Adults, and Families with Disabilities
- LivingWell50+
- Donna Williams-Dissertation : Piloting a Biblically Based Curriculum for Improving Working Memory as a Resource for Spiritual Formation of Older Adults
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMxmEDXDCNU
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