MINDful Living 6-Week Live Program

Begins Tuesday, April 14th, 2026 at 12pm CST

Join us for a live, 6-week interactive program where evidence-based brain health science meets practical, real-life strategies. Through engaging sessions and culinary demonstrations, you’ll explore how nutrition, movement, cognitive challenge, and social connection work together to protect the brain and reduce dementia risk.


Dates For the Upcoming 6-Week Program

Live sessions will be on Tuesdays at 12pm CST on the following dates:

April 14th, April 21st, April 28th, May 5th, May 12th, and May 19th

All sessions will be recorded and available to watch for those that cant attend live.

What is the MINDful Living program?

This comprehensive online program blends science-backed dietary strategies with lifestyle practices to support brain health and longevity.

This program expands far beyond the plate, offering a comprehensive exploration of the lifestyle habits proven to support long-term brain health. Jennifer Ventrelle and Laura Morris—co-founders of The Official MIND Diet and co-authors of its leading book—personally guide you through research-backed strategies for strengthening memory, improving cognitive resilience, and lowering dementia risk through everyday choices.

Across six structured weeks, you’ll uncover how nutrition, physical activity, cognitive challenge, social engagement, and sleep protect the brain—and how to build routines that make these habits achievable in real life. Throughout the program, you’ll be guided by SMART MIND habits—our evidence-based framework for sustainable lifestyle change:

  • Self-Monitoring

    Meal Planning

    Action Planning

    Reflection

    Trust & Support

    Each week, you’ll explore how these principles fit into your daily life practicing, experimenting, and discovering what works for you in real time, with expert support every step of the way.

    This is where science becomes actionable, motivation becomes momentum, and where a healthier future becomes something you can confidently shape for yourself.


MINDful Living 6-Week Live Program

MINDful Living 6-Week Live Program

Join our 6-week live MIND Diet program and learn the science of brain-healthy nutrition and lifestyle from the researchers and authors behind The Official MIND Diet. Explore the foods to choose and limit, practical strategies to make lasting changes, and our SMART framework for building habits that stick. Each week features culinary demonstrations bringing the science to life for real-world application. You’ll also learn key lifestyle pillars—exercise, sleep, social and cognitive engagement, stress management, and managing chronic conditions—giving you a complete blueprint to support lifelong cognitive health.

$699

What You Will Gain

✔ A deeper understanding of the science behind the MIND diet

Why certain foods protect the brain, how daily choices influence long-term cognitive health, and how lifestyle factors like movement, cognitive challenge, social engagement, and sleep all work together to reduce dementia risk.

✔ Real-world culinary skills

Live cooking instruction, simple recipe demonstrations, flavor-building techniques, and strategies for making brain-healthy meals doable—even on your busiest days.

✔ A full suite of planning tools

You’ll receive a program workbook filled with guided reflections, SMART MIND goal-setting exercises, weekly habit prompts, grocery lists, customizable meal-planning templates, and a tool to track your weekly MIND diet score.

✔ Habits that feel natural—not forced

You’ll learn how to build brain-protective routines that fit your life, adapt to challenges, and evolve with you over time.

This is more than an educational program. It’s an empowering pathway toward clarity, confidence, and a joyful lifelong way of MINDful Living.


FAQs

  • If you cant make it to all of the sessions, don’t worry! We will record each live session and provide recordings to all participants.

  • Yes! We encourage family members to join in the journey and be part of your support network.

  • Yes! We walk you through how to eat well and work around any dietary limitations you may have.

About the Program Leaders

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Jennifer Ventrelle, MS, RDN

Jennifer Ventrelle, MS, RDN is a registered dietitian nutritionist certified in adult weight management, a certified personal trainer, and a mindfulness meditation teacher with over 20 years of experience in the departments of Preventive Medicine and Clinical Nutrition at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. As the Lead Dietitian on Dr. Morris’ MIND Diet Trial to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease and co-director of the interventions for the U.S. POINTER Study, Jennifer has been at the forefront of the largest investigations exploring the impact of lifestyle on cognitive decline in the U.S. Jennifer is the founder of CHOICE Nutrition and Wellness, LLC, partnering with individuals and organizations interested in integrative wellness and mindful healthy living.

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Laura Morris, CPT

Laura Morris is a professionally trained chef, certified personal trainer, and certified nutrition consultant. She is co-author of two books on nutrition and brain health; Diet for the MIND written with Dr. Martha Clare Morris, and The Official MIND Diet, written with Jennifer Ventrelle. She coaches her clients on ways to incorporate healthy living through diet and exercise into their existing lifestyle and leads cooking classes on the MIND diet foods to inspire people to love not only cooking delicious food, but the process of all things nourishment.