NEW: BEST Creates New Educational Center in Second Life

  BEST’s virtual presence in Second Life just got better. BEST recently created the BEST PEER Center to offer in-world facilitator training, our acclaimed Moving On & Identity After TBI course, workshops, mindfulness retreats, and much more. We invite you to visit the BEST PEER Center at Etopia. A Landmark is available in our office (more…)

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month

The Brain Energy Support Team (BEST) was formed in 2008 with a straightforward mission: we want to empower ourselves and each other to take control of our treatments, our recoveries and our lives. We know BEST. The roots of that mission remain powerful and even more relevant, especially today. March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. (more…)

BEST Online Education Academy Opens

The Brain Energy Support Team (BEST) is pleased to announce that our online education academy is now open! Education is an integral part of what BEST is about. We’ve been providing quality learning opportunities since 2011. We offer a variety of classes, workshops and small group activities for individuals with brain injury, caregivers and professionals. (more…)

Fridays Are BEST At NPSL

I’ve been working with nonprofits for 30 years and every organization or team I’ve ever worked with held the dreaded weekly staff or executive meeting in some fashion. Often they were early in the day, filled with the same repeated updates as all the meetings that went before it, and it was all I could (more…)

Virtual BESTies

I think everyone who has ever spoken with me about virtual worlds has seen my eyes light up as I launch into lengthy descriptions of friends, activities, uses, and relevance of this platform for communication, education, and social engagement so when Kim asked me to write about BEST in Second Life (SL) I jumped at (more…)