Take an active role in your brain health.
Practical, evidence-based ways to strengthen your memory skills and support your brain, starting today.
Your brain is involved in everything you do: how you think, learn, remember, adapt and connect with the world around you.
And while you can’t control everything that happens to your brain, there’s a lot you can do to support it.
Brainfit® To Thrive is our flagship online brain and memory programme, designed to turn the science of brain health into practical actions you can use in everyday life.
Across eight self-paced modules, you’ll learn how your memory works, strengthen the six essential memory skills you rely on every day, practise proven memory techniques, and build brain-healthy habits that can support you now and into the future.
Because looking after your brain isn’t just about knowing what’s good for it. It’s about knowing what to do.
NZ$229
8 modules | Approx. 6 hours | 100% online & self-paced | Practical exercises throughout | Certificate of Completion
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You can do more for your brain than you might think
Most of us know we’re supposed to look after our physical health – We exercise. We think about what we eat. We try to get enough sleep. But how often do we actively think about looking after the brain that makes everything else possible?
There is plenty of brain-health advice out there: Get enough sleep. Exercise. Eat well. Stay socially connected. Keep your brain active.
All useful advice. But knowing what’s good for your brain is only the beginning.
- How do you actually strengthen your memory skills?
- How can you help information stick?
- What can you do when names won’t stay in your memory?
- How can you improve your focus when the world seems determined to distract you?
- How can you make it easier to remember what you need to do later?
- And what practical habits can you build now to support your brain over the years ahead?
That’s where Brainfit® To Thrive comes in.
Don’t just learn about your brain. Learn what you can do for it.
Brainfit® To Thrive takes evidence-based brain and memory research and turns it into practical techniques, exercises and everyday actions.
You’ll learn the science, but you won’t stop there.
- You’ll practise what you’re learning.
- You’ll apply techniques to everyday memory challenges.
- You’ll strengthen different memory skills.
- And you’ll identify practical changes you can make to support your brain health.
So rather than finishing the course with a list of things you should be doing, you’ll have a toolkit of things you know how to do.
Learn it. Practise it. Use it.
LEARN
Understand how your brain and memory work, why different memory skills matter and what research tells us about supporting brain health.
PRACTISE
Put that knowledge to work through practical exercises and techniques designed to challenge and strengthen the six essential memory skills.
USE
Take your new strategies into everyday life, helping you focus, remember, organise information and build better brain-health habits.
The result?
Greater knowledge. Stronger skills. More confidence.
And most importantly, a more proactive approach to looking after your brain.
NZ$229
8 modules | Approx. 6 hours | 100% online & self-paced | Practical exercises throughout | Certificate of Completion
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What could Brainfit® To Thrive help you do?
By the end of the programme, you’ll have practical strategies to help you:
- Strengthen your everyday memory skills
Practise the six essential skills involved in remembering and learn how to keep challenging them. - Improve your focus and attention
Learn techniques that help you pay better attention to information in the first place, because remembering starts with noticing. - Make information easier to remember
Discover practical ways to connect, organise and rehearse information so your brain has a better chance of finding it again later. - Get better at remembering names and faces
Practise specific techniques you can use in social and professional situations. - Strengthen working memory
Challenge your ability to hold and work with information and learn practical strategies for remembering lists and larger amounts of information. - Reduce unnecessary load on your memory
Discover how simple organisation strategies can free your brain from trying to hold onto everything at once. - Build brain-supporting lifestyle habits
Explore practical actions around sleep, exercise, nutrition and social connection and understand why they matter. - Feel more confident using your memory
Replace some of the guesswork with practical strategies you can call on when you need them.
Most importantly:
You’ll know what you can start doing TODAY.
Your memory is more than one skill
We often talk about having a “good memory” or a “bad memory”, as though memory were one single ability. It isn’t.
Memory relies on a collection of different skills that work together.
At the heart of Brainfit® To Thrive are six essential memory skills. Throughout the programme, you’ll learn what those skills are, how you use them in everyday life and, crucially, how to practise and strengthen them.
Because memory isn’t simply something you either have or lose. It’s something you can actively work with.
Inside BRAINFIT® TO THRIVE
8 modules designed to turn knowledge into action
Each module combines accessible brain and memory science with practical exercises, strategies and activities you can start putting into practice straight away.
MODULE 1 – Introduction to Brainfit® To Thrive
Build the foundations for better brain health.
Discover how memory works and explore important concepts including memory traces and cognitive reserve.
You’ll begin looking differently at how your brain learns and remembers, laying the foundation for the practical work ahead.
MODULE 2 – The Big 6
Meet the six memory skills you’re going to train.
Discover the six critical memory skills at the heart of the Brainfit® approach and start putting them to work.
You’ll begin by practising three of them: short-term, verbal and non-verbal memory.
This is where learning about your memory starts becoming memory training.
MODULE 3 – Use It or Lose It
Challenge your brain and strengthen your skills.
Discover why actively using different memory skills matters and practise techniques designed to strengthen your non-verbal memory.
You’ll also explore the first Brainfit® Lifestyle Focus: the power of being organised, with practical ways to reduce unnecessary demands on your memory.
MODULE 4 – Activate Both Sides of Your Brain
Give your memory more than one way to work.
Practise techniques that engage both verbal and non-verbal memory and learn strategies that can help with those frustrating “tip-of-the-tongue” moments.
You’ll also explore your second Lifestyle Focus: quality sleep and the role it plays in supporting your brain and memory.
MODULE 5 – Focus & Attention
Train your attention so your memory has something to work with.
Practise the Brainfit® FOCUS–CONNECT–REHEARSE technique to help information stick and strengthen prospective memory, your ability to remember something you need to do later.
You’ll also explore your third Lifestyle Focus: regular exercise and its role in supporting brain health.
MODULE 6 – Faces & Names
Turn “I’m terrible with names” into something you can actually work on.
Practise recalling names and recognising faces and learn practical techniques for remembering larger amounts of information.
You’ll also explore Lifestyle Focus #4: social connection and why staying connected matters for your brain.
MODULE 7 – Trick Your Brain to Remember More
Give your brain smarter ways to hold onto information.
Strengthen your working memory and practise practical techniques for remembering lists and other information.
You’ll also explore Lifestyle Focus #5: good nutrition and its role in supporting long-term brain health.
MODULE 8 – Recap & Next Steps
Turn what you’ve learned into something that lasts.
Bring together the skills, strategies and lifestyle learning from the previous seven modules.
You’ll review what works for you and create a plan for continuing your new brain-boosting and memory-building habits beyond the course.
Because the real value of Brainfit® To Thrive isn’t simply completing eight modules. It’s what you keep doing afterwards.
NZ$229
8 modules | Approx. 6 hours | 100% online & self-paced | Practical exercises throughout | Certificate of Completion
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This isn’t passive learning
You won’t simply sit and watch six hours of video.
Throughout Brainfit® To Thrive you’ll be encouraged to test yourself, practise techniques, challenge different memory skills and apply what you’re learning to your own life.
Each module includes practical exercises and activities designed to help you put the learning into action. You’ll also complete a short multiple-choice quiz at the end of each module to consolidate what you’ve learned. And because the programme is self-paced, you can pause, practise, repeat and revisit the material in the way that works best for you.
Little changes. Regular practice. Skills you can keep using.
Why Brainfit®?
Evidence-based. Practical. Made for real life.
Brainfit® has been helping people better understand and support their brains and memories since 2008.
Our approach is grounded in brain and memory research, but we’ve never believed that good science should stay trapped in academic papers.
Our job is to make it useful.
Brainfit® programmes translate the research into practical strategies, exercises and everyday actions people can understand and use.
Since 2008, Brainfit® has helped more than 18,000 people through our courses, classes and programmes.
Brainfit® To Thrive brings that experience together in our flagship online programme.
Science made practical.
Strategies made doable.
Brain health made part of everyday life.
Everything you get with Brainfit® To Thrive
Your NZ$229 enrolment gives you access to a comprehensive programme designed to help you move from knowing to doing.
- The complete 8-module Brainfit® To Thrive programme
Approximately six hours of structured learning taking you from understanding your memory to actively strengthening and supporting it. - The Brainfit® Big 6 memory framework
Learn about the six memory skills at the heart of the Brainfit® approach and practise strengthening them. - Practical memory exercises and challenges
Activities designed to help you put what you’re learning into practice as you progress. - Everyday memory techniques
Strategies for attention, names and faces, working memory, prospective memory, information recall and more. - The FOCUS–CONNECT–REHEARSE technique
A practical Brainfit® strategy you can use to help information stick. - Brain-health lifestyle strategies
Explore practical actions around organisation, sleep, exercise, social connection and nutrition. - End-of-module quizzes
Reinforce and consolidate what you’ve learned along the way. - Certificate of Completion
Receive your Brainfit® To Thrive Certificate of Completion when you finish the programme.
Your investment: NZ$229
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Who is Brainfit® To Thrive for?
Brainfit® To Thrive is for adults who want to take a proactive role in supporting their brain and memory.
- You might want to improve your everyday memory.
- You might be interested in healthy ageing and want to start supporting your brain now rather than waiting until later.
- You might want practical techniques to improve your focus, attention and ability to remember information.
- Or perhaps you’ve simply realised that you spend plenty of time looking after other areas of your health and would like to start doing more for your brain.
You don’t need any previous knowledge of neuroscience. You don’t need to consider yourself “good at memory.” And you certainly don’t need to wait until you’re worried about it.
Looking after your brain is relevant at every stage of adult life.
What Brainfit® learners are saying
“A most enjoyable and enlightening course – I would thoroughly recommend it.”
Barry, Queenstown
“I believe my memory is better than it was, and one thing leads to another, so I do a bit more physical exercise now too.”
Anonymous, Wellington
“It is an extremely stimulating and useful course at any age or stage. I use the follow-up emails which remind me to keep up the things I’ve learnt.”
Angela, Auckland
Your brain health isn’t something you have to leave entirely to chance.
You can’t control everything that happens to your brain.
But there’s a lot you can do to support it.
Brainfit® To Thrive gives you the knowledge to understand your brain, the skills to challenge your memory and the practical strategies to turn that knowledge into action.
You don’t need to change everything overnight.
You simply need to start.
Learn it. Practise it. Use it.
And start doing something positive for your brain today.
BRAINFIT® TO THRIVE
NZ$229
8 self-paced modules
Approx. 6 hours of learning
Practical exercises and memory training
Evidence-based brain-health strategies
Online access
Certificate of Completion
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does Brainfit® To Thrive work?
Brainfit® To Thrive is delivered completely online across eight engaging, self-paced video modules. Each module combines accessible learning with practical exercises and activities designed to help you challenge your memory and put what you’re learning into practice.
At the end of each module, you’ll complete a short multiple-choice quiz to consolidate your learning and once you’ve completed the programme, you’ll receive your Brainfit® To Thrive Certificate of Completion by email.
How long does the course take?
The complete programme contains approximately six hours of video learning across eight modules. Because it’s self-paced, you can work through it in the way that suits you: complete modules relatively quickly or give yourself more time between modules to practise what you’ve learned.
Who is Brainfit® To Thrive for?
Brainfit® To Thrive is designed for adults who want practical, evidence-based strategies to strengthen their memory skills and proactively support their brain health. It’s suitable whether you’re interested in improving everyday memory, healthy ageing, maintaining cognitive resilience or simply learning more about what you can do to support your brain.
When can I start?
Anytime. Brainfit® To Thrive is 100% online and self-paced, so you can begin whenever you’re ready and work through the modules at your own speed.
What do I need to access the course?
You’ll need a computer, tablet or smartphone and an internet connection. Once enrolled, you’ll receive access to the course materials through the Brainfit Academy learning portal.
Will I receive a certificate?
Yes. Once you’ve completed the programme, you’ll receive a Brainfit® To Thrive Certificate of Completion.
Can Brainfit® To Thrive count towards Accredited Brainfit® Coach Training?
No. Brainfit® To Thrive is our flagship online programme for the general public and is separate from the Accredited Brainfit® Coach Training pathway.
How is Brainfit® To Thrive different from your other online courses?
Brainfit® To Thrive is our flagship online programme for the general public, combining memory training, practical brain-health strategies and lifestyle learning across eight comprehensive modules. Our other online courses have different purposes and audiences, including professional development and the Accredited Brainfit® Coach pathway.
One final thought before you go…
You already use your brain every single day.
To remember.
To work.
To learn.
To solve problems.
To connect with other people.
To navigate change.
To enjoy life.
Why not learn how to support it?
Brainfit® To Thrive gives you practical, evidence-based things you can start doing today to strengthen your memory skills and proactively support the brain you’ll rely on for the rest of your life.
