Run for your Mental Health

Take a Break, Run for your Mental Health

Brain Changes Initiative (BCI) is collaborating with RUNCO to encourage our wolfpack to stay brain healthy and continue running throughout the winter months.

FUNDRAISE

CREATE NEW BRAIN CELLS | MAKE NEW CONNECTIONS

Winter is here - a time associated with rising mental health concerns. Help us support brain health 1 step at a time! Starting January 1 2022 until March 31 2022, join us in a Run for your Mental Health led by RUNCO! Register & donate to help promote a healthy lifestyle and raise awareness for the positive effects of aerobic exercise for the brain.

BCI in partnership with Branch Out Neurological Foundation (BONF) is raising funds for non-pharmacological research for Brain Injury recovery.

How to Participate & Win a Prize

To be entered into the raffle draw to win a challenge prize, you must complete ALL steps below:

1. Register & Donate to the Brain Changes Initiative on this page! Registration is free but you must Donate through your registration to be entered into the prize draw.

Click 'Register' anywhere on this page, to sign up as an individual under the Winter Run Registration. You also have the option to create or join a team! Net proceeds from all registrations will be directed through BCI to fund non-pharmacological research for Brain Injury recovery.
Additional donations may be made by clicking 'Donate Now' anywhere on this page.

2. Run any distance!

3. Take a picture of yourself or your result

4. Follow @brainchanges, @runcomove, & @mounibrealfoodonly on Instagram

• Share your picture or create a story, tagging @brainchanges, @runcomove, and @mounibrealfoodonly for your progress to be featured!
• #RunforyourMentalHealth

The Prize

The monthly prizes are generously sponsored by Mounib Real Foods Only.

These healthy nut-based chocolate spreads are made with only 3 ingredients, no palm oils, no refined sugars, dairy-free and gluten-free! Winners will receive the Go Nuts Trio that includes one hazelnut chocolate spread, one peanut chocolate spread, and one vegan hazelnut chocolate spread.

Sponsor

https://mounibrealfoodonly.ca/

@mounibrealfoodonly

Participating in this run requires following the COVID-19 restrictions of your location.

About BCI & Dr. Matthew Galati

The mission BCI is to improve the standard of care for traumatic brain injury (TBI) through education, awareness, support and research around non-pharmacological approaches to healing the brain. With your help we hope to continue building a movement of brain ambassadors to spread the word that the brain reroutes, the brain heals and the brain changes!

In 2013, Brain Changes Founder, Dr. Matthew Galati sustained a life-threatening Traumatic Brain Injury. He used a lifestyle-change approach to heal his brain that against all odds allowed him to fully recover, complete his medical training, and become a physician. Through his recovery, he learned about aerobic exercise and its ability to create new brain cells (neurogenesis), improve cognitive processing, and stimulate new learning. He began running 5km daily and never stopped!

About RUNCO & Hussein Hashi

Hussein Hashi’s interest in understanding people’ mindsets, attitudes, and behaviours stems from his days studying sociology and psychology at the University of Toronto. Hussein uses his ingenuity, curiousity, and persistence to push boundaries and disrupt conventional thinking in order to overcome challenges. As a 2 time Canadian national champion and Olympic hopeful in 2024, Hussein utilizes his expertise and grit to help other runners break mental obstacles on his running platform Runco as well as to introduce running as a way to promote mental health and well-being. Running has helped him during times of disconnection such as the COVID-19 pandemic and he hopes others can find the mind-body connection and clarity it offers him.