Free Interactive Webinar
...to support and mobilize Democratic-leaning voters (especially in swing states)
...to vote and to mobilize people in their circles to vote in November.

Designed with a neuroscience lens, the hour-long webinar includes a combination of connecting with the other participants (limited to 15 per session), planning small personal actions, learning information about how your brain is activated by the Trump campaign’s tactics, and concrete strategies to inoculate against that activation, and to help you move ahead with your actions to elect Democrats this November.

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What participants have said:

  • “[I] loved the [small break-out] groups, meeting new people and exchanging ideas. And the brain info helped with the sense of less anxiety.”
  • “This is great work! I’m so glad you are doing it! It did get me thinking about the small but consistent things I can do.”
  • “I enjoyed it and [it] helped me to feel that I am somehow engaged in making a difference in the future of our country.”
  • “Putting ourselves into a hopeful and positive mind space felt very empowering.”
  • “It was really powerful to be ‘live’ in a community with people over zoom, it created energy.”

Our Mission

(You’ve Got) Brains for Voting’s mission is: To hold interactive webinars to mobilize Dem-leaning voters to vote in the 2020 November election. The webinar session is based on affective neuroscience, the study of how our minds work. It is designed to help us guard against the "dirty tricks" and the really Fake News that are flooding the airwaves and our inboxes more and more as the campaign advances. By learning brain-aligned things you can do, participants will be better prepared to navigate this negative political environment. Building on shared values, people will connect with each other and commit to personal actions toward electing Democratic candidates.

Our Group

We are the Praxis Tank, an independent, self-organizing small group of educators and consultants in the San Francisco Bay Area. We formed in 2004, after Kerry lost to Bush, out of our passion to support more robust democratic engagement—in both how citizens engage, and how many. Our work is fostering the rapid evolution of a more sustainable and just democracy in our country. Without regime change in 2020, that work is highly unlikely to go forward. Therefore, our focus between now and November 3 is defeating the president and his enablers. Day by day, we keep discovering that the stakes of ousting the Lier-in Chief could not be higher—we must elect Joe Biden as our President on November 3, as well as Democrats “down ballot,” city-, county-, state-, and nation-wide.  From our specific skillsets, we are eager to offer an original design “virtual house gathering” to do our part in this effort, in complement to the work of established political advocacy groups and the Democratic Party.

Webinar Facilitators

Kathleen Taylor, Ph.D.,

is Professor in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership, Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research, presentations, and writing focus on intersections between adult development, adult learning, and the brain. She co-authored Facilitating Learning with the Adult Brain in Mind, which describes recent discoveries in affective and cognitive science that inform new “best practices” for teaching and learning. Dr. Taylor consults internationally and presents professional development workshops and keynotes on learning and the brain in various educational and organizational settings. She received a Fulbright Scholar grant to work in Athens, Greece, in 2013.

Paul Loper, Ph.D.,

facilitates the Interpersonal Dynamics course at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and the Interpersonal Skills and Embodied Leadership course at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He is faculty in the Master’s in Leadership program at Saint Mary’s College of California, and has consulted for leadership/organizational culture change in Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Canada, South Korea, and Mexico, as well as the U.S. Prior to his doctoral studies he spent two decades working professionally onstage.

Contact

Paul Loper, Ph.D.,

Email: Paul@brainsforvoting.org

Kathleen Taylor, Ph.D.,

Email: Kathleen.brainsforvoting@gmail.com