THREE DISTINCT PARTS
The Mindfulness Movie explores answers to the basic questions: What is mindlessness? What is mindfulness?
Part 1: Decoding Mindfulness
Defines what mindlessness and mindfulness is and how the neuroscience and concept of neuroplasticity play into the practice.
Part 2: Journey to Mindfulness
Leading world experts discuss eight essential aspects of mindfulness, supported by easy to understand studies showing why we function at a more highly effective level when we change our default mindless mode to a mindful mode.
Part 3: Stories of Mindfulness
Discover how the practice is being used by the military and teen groups to overcome stress, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. These real-life examples of personal initiative and success truly inspire the viewer to engage the world in a new way.
THE EXPERTS
Over 35 of the world’s leading medical and mental health experts, in the fields of psychiatry, family counseling, sports psychology, psychology, quantum physics and neuroscience as well as best-selling authors, weigh in on the topic of mindfulness in this ground-breaking documentary. They are a distinguished and diverse group, hailing from places far and wide….like Sri Lanka to London; Malaysia to Harvard Square; and Appleton, WI to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. Most of these experts have been exclusively interviewed for the film (in alphabetical order).
psychotherapist, leadership coach for Fortune 500 companies, author of Wise Mind, Open Mind
psychotherapist, former Buddhist monk, Emmy award-winning writer, author of The Mindfulness Code
neuroscientist, recently received Templeton Positive Neuroscience Award for investigating the effect of mindful attention on sensory information processing using fMRI.
Thorsten Barnhofer, Ph.D.
worked in Prof Mark Williams’ group at the Oxford Department of Psychiatry for eight years, researching the effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in suicidal and chronic depression.
Jo Anne Bishop, Ph.D., MPA
internationally renowned psychotherapist, books include Success Is A State of Mind with Deepak Chopra and Mark Victor Hansen and Roadmap to Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard
Richard Burnett
co-founder of the Mindfulness in Schools Project, starting the first UK school to include mindfulness in its curriculum for all 13-14 year olds.
Guy Claxton, D.Phil.
Cambridge and Oxford-trained psychologist, author of the bestseller Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University, founding Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research Center, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.
clinical psychologist, author of The Now Effect: How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life