The Mindcap Center

10/14/2026

The MINDCAP Center is excited to announce our new status as a Thrivent Choice Organization.

The Thrivent Choice program offers two ways that people can donate to MINDCAP’s important mission on MINDCAP’s Thrivent Choice portal:

1. Thrivent members can choose to allocate their Choice dollars to MINDCAP

2. Anyone, whether a Thrivent investor or not, can make a donation to MINDCAP via MINDCAP’s Thrivent Choice portal page.

When you donate today through Thrivent’s giving platform, Thrivent will pass 100% of your gift on to MINDCAP to help support our work with clients who find it difficult to afford the cost of mediated learning sessions.

Thrivent can help you live generously and be part of something bigger. Make a personal donation or direct some of Thrivent’s charitable funds to a favorite nonprofit organization or cause. The choice is yours!

10/07/2026

The MINDCAP Center is excited to announce our involvement as a founding partner in The EmpowerED Parents Forum. We are thrilled to partner with Fort Wayne Center for Learning and Kainos Microschool in offering monthly workshops and support to parents to get the best educational outcome for students.

Join us the second Tuesday of every month from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM at the Allen County Public Library, Meeting Room C.

On the 13th of this month, we will discuss Choosing the Right School for Your Child. Join us!

09/18/2026

From our Executive Director, Greta:
While AI can give thinkers, learners, and problem-solvers of all ages access to nearly limitless facts, the need remains for all of us to be competent logical thinkers ourselves and to foster competent logical thinking in those who happen to fall within our sphere of influence. The ability to think logically in order to process the wealth of content that AI makes available is what will give individuals an edge in society going forward.

A recent HuffPost article states: ““AI is designed to solve puzzles through formulating a “scalable algorithm using recursion or stacks, not brute force.” These models rely on finding familiar patterns from training data, and when they can’t, according to Chowdhury, “their accuracy collapses.” Chowdhury added, “This is not hallucination or cognitive decline; the models were never reasoning in the first place.”
Turns out AI can memorize and pattern-match, but what it still can’t do is reason like the human mind. ”

Excerpt From
“No, AI Isn't Having 'Hallucinations' — Turns Out, It's Worse Than That”
Emily Bond
HuffPost
https://apple.news/ADVSOddgySEmptg480hmrIA
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Amid claims of "digital dementia," experts explain that AI isn't declining. It's just stupid in the first place.

08/31/2026

Save the Date for MINDCAP's Tactile Training, coming the week of June 21st, 2027!

08/27/2026

MINDCAP is so appreciative of the five-star rating! Thank you for your confidence in our mediators and our program!
Want to discuss how MINDCAP can help your friends or family? Call 260.271.4650 or email [email protected] for more info.

08/26/2026

Are you looking for a little Back to School boost? The MINDCAP Center has limited spots available for after school sessions with our Feuerstein-trained mediators. Email [email protected] or call 260.271.4650 for more information!

08/13/2026

This science cited in this Substack post by Dr. Caroline Leaf helps MINDCAP beautifully explain the efficacy of one of the Feuerstein tools we use with some clients: Identify Emotions.

Forced positivity prolongs the very feeling it's trying to bury. Putting the emotion into words measurably settles the alarm, here's the exact move.

08/11/2026

The Feuerstein method of mediated learning that our team uses at The MINDCAP Center can be applied to the learning and mastery of any content.

That fact explains why our director, Greta, just agreed to tackle an MIT open courseware class on Differential Equations with one of our adult clients.

Mediators don't need to know all of the answers to mediate well;
they just need to understand what cognitive processes they must help their clients learn to employ. 😅

Anything can be mediated.

Well trained mediators understand how to use any task to teach the art of self-mediation.

08/10/2026

If you’ve struggled to understand what MINDCAP mediators mean when they talk about projecting virtual relationships, here’s an example of that cognitive function applied in real life:

A 13 year old sibling of one of MINDCAP’s mediatees had fun this weekend as he realized he could assign unique binary labels to pieces from the Quarto game his family had checked out of MINDCAP’s lending library.

At first glance it wouldn’t seem obvious that wooden game pieces would bring to mind the idea of binary code. At the conceptual level, though, binary relationships can be projected as an individual discovers that there are four characteristics for each game piece that have only two options each:
1. Color- light or dark
2. Height- tall or short
3. Shape- square or circular
4. Fill- solid or hole

Life definitely becomes richer when people have the ability to project virtual relationships, doesn’t it! Individuals who are strong in their ability to project virtual relationships become our world’s inventors and entrepreneurs.

Reach out to us at MINDCAP if you or your loved one needs help in developing this important skill.