From the Founder/Executive Director
Of the Foundation for Human Potential

Dear Website Readers,

I am delighted to welcome you to the website of The Foundation for Human Potential. We are now able to share our work with you, which began in 1990 and continues today with new and exciting direction - all in the interest of learning and the brain. Our focus has been on the education community, which has extended to the business community, with the primary goal of analyzing how we think and how we can do it better!

My personal vision in having established The Foundation for Human Potential, was to 1) publicly communicate accumulating knowledge of the brain’s role in learning and 2) present manners in which we may, thereby, influence the course of learning, both in the rehabilitation process and in the education system, in general. Through the passion and commitment to their respective and diverse fields, the advisors of The Foundation for Human Potential represent the value of trying to make the world a better place, via interdisciplinary education and learning. In so doing, the edifice of cultural values is preeminent.

Through many avenues, I have been fortunate to have connected with extraordinary people representing diverse professional disciplines, each equally passionate about his/her work. As I became associated with each, I invited him/her to join our Advisory Board to represent our mission, which began with trying to improve the potential of adult patients with brain damage and led to doing the same for all school children and adult learners. In so doing, the concept of lifelong learning has become a key focus.

Such a focus underscores the importance of the appreciation of individual differences, rather than assuming that information provided by “formal education” is learned by all in the same way. It challenges the value of an IQ score and, rather, emphasizes the importance of accepting the concept of Multiple Intelligences (Gardner, 1983), i.e. the strengths and weaknesses which represent the human condition. The end goal of this work is to develop reform in education which will provide a more individualized education, pursuing and identifying passionate interests of all learners, which can have a much greater potential of making each a more content, compassionate, productive member of society.

We have been most fortunate to have attracted an outstanding group of advisors, all of whom are the most creative thinkers from very diverse disciplines - the key to learning!

Enjoy our website and please communicate your thoughts about it with us. Thank you so much for sharing with us.



Most sincerely,


Andrea Gellin Shindler
Founder/Executive Director