
Co-Founders, Zelle Nelson and Maureen McCarthy
BECOME WISER TOGETHER
Engage the Collaborative Brain Toolkit
CONNECTION AS MEDICINE
A 16-year migraine, allergy to all pain meds, 10% lung capacity...

Our co-founder, Maureen McCarthy, was told she would die young of a rare, genetic lung disease that kills by slow suffocation. With no cure in sight, Maureen couldn't change her body, so she set out to change her brain.
In partnership with co-founder, Zelle Nelson, her journey and her pioneering energy have birthed a new approach to collaboration, using the neural circuitry of social connection to harness physical and psychological pain.
One of the healthiest people you'll ever meet, Maureen teaches a radical, brain-based approach to being alive.
Turns out designing a healthy mind creates the conditions for meaningful interactions with other people, which ultimately keeps us alive as a species—both physically and socially.
Photo: Erica Mueller
WE ARE WIRED TO CONNECT
Designing healthy interactions begins by creating healthy minds.

The future is collaborative, and to thrive in all its complexity, it will take:
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our individual minds to be healthy together, shifting our main mode of interaction from the neural circuitry of Safety Brain to Connected Brain,
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an ability to mindfully design our relationships, to evolve at the speed of trust and clarity,
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and to move past seeing the world through the lens of problems and solutions to a new worldview of Desire-Innovation Thinking.
Def: COLLABORATIVE AWARENESS (n.)
The discovery and design of who we are together.
THE COLLABORATIVE BRAIN TOOLKIT
3 WAYS TO ENGAGE
You are a relationship pioneer. We get everyone on board with you.












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