In 2001, I met fellow Our2Brains co-founder, Dustin Flatt, when we served together in the U.S. Army in Germany. For four years, we adventured all across Europe and the Middle East. During our travels and combat deployments, we gained many new perspectives on the human experience. We witnessed some of the best, and worst, of humanity. Our lifelong friendship was built on a shared desire to do something to help our fellow humans do better. For ourselves. For our families. For our nation. For the future of our world. When we left the military, we committed ourselves to finding meaningful work that would allow us to make a difference in the cause of human progress. I held various leadership in both the private and public sectors and was most fulfilled by mentoring my team members to achieve their professional and personal goals. Dustin became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and provided mental health services to people in need. Along the way, we learned the best outcomes for people come when they figure out how to leverage the full power and potential of their whole mind. Balanced, synergistic, healthy minds are capable of positive change and action. So we're taking our experiences and embarking on a new adventure. We created Our2Brains as a personal development consulting service aimed at helping people understand and apply our concept of whole-mind thinking to meet their individual and organizational goals, make a positive impact within their professions, and advance the cause of collective human progress. Our concept of whole-mind thinking is based on lessons learned through our educational backgrounds and professional experiences in leadership, mental health services, and social advocacy. Here is a source document from Jonathan Rowson and Iain McGilchrist, two leading researchers in the relatively nascent field of hemispheric neuroscience. Their work is an inspiration for our concept of whole-mind thinking. They discuss our divided brains and how understanding the relationship between the brain's two hemispheres has practical applications for improving performance and mental health at the individual and societal levels. This website and company were created as part of a Spring 2021 project for COMSTRAT 563 Professional Digital Content Promotion in the Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, where I'm pursuing a Masters degree in Strategic Communication. Although the company is fictional, we're working to make Our2Brains become a reality. I hope you'll follow along as this project progresses throughout the semester. - T.J.
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AuthorT.J. Westphal is a co-founder of Our2Brains. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Strategic Communication from the Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. ArchivesCategories |