PROUDLY PRESENTED THE ISRAEL PREMIERE OF
MY YEAR OF LIVING MINDFULLY
(MAY 27 – JUNE 03, 2020)
FEATURING THE WORLD’S LEADING MINDFULNESS EXPERTS
Overwhelmed with insomnia and an incurable autoimmune disease, Shannon Harvey needed to make a change. But while the award-winning health journalist found plenty of recommendations on diet, sleep and exercise, when she looked for the equivalent of a 30-minute workout for her mental wellbeing, there was nothing.
Worried for the future mental health of her kids who were growing up amidst epidemics of stress, anxiety, depression and addiction, in a world-first experiment, Shannon recruited a team of scientists to put mindful meditation to the test. But after a 30,000 kilometre journey from the bright lights of Manhattan to the dusty refugee camps of the Middle East, what begins as a self-experiment, transforms into a life-changing experience.
My Year of Living Mindfully is filled with compelling stories, interviews with 18 leading scientists, and unexpected insights that go to the heart of what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.
THE ONLINE PREMIERE MIGHT BE OVER BUT YOU CAN STILL WATCH THE FIRST 15 MINUTES OF MY YEAR OF LIVING MINDFULLY FOR FREE
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We have spent the last three years making this film because we believe the world needs trustworthy, evidence-based health journalism and storytelling more than ever. We are dedicated to keeping our work independent from advertising and sponsored content. If you want to help us make more films like it, then support our work by buying a stream, download or DVD of the film to own, or for a friend.
– Shannon and Julian Harvey
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SUPPORT REFUGEES THROUGH MOMENTS OF REFUGE
Moments of Refuge is a global project to create and study the transformative impact of the Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees program (MBTR-R) featured in My Year of Living Mindfully. This first-of-its-kind mindfulness intervention program empowers refugees and asylum seekers to cultivate moments of inner refuge and safety from which healing may begin and hope may emerge.
You can help transform the lives and communities of refugees and asylum seekers around the world today by making a donation.
MORE ABOUT SHANNON HARVEY’S OTHER PROJECTS
Shannon Harvey is an award winning director and journalist. She spent many years working for leading news organisations such as the ABC and Fairfax and is the recipient of the National Press Club of Australia’s “Health Journalist of The Year” award. Her first film, The Connection is about the new science showing the link between our mind, body and health. Her book The Whole Health Life is about finding good health after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. She now produces a popular blog and free podcast, whilst balancing her health and being the mother of two adventurous boys.
MORE ABOUT THE MOMENTS OF REFUGE PROJECT
The inter-generational mental health crisis that has emerged from the global human rights crisis of forced displacement requires that we act now. To do our part, we have launched the Moments of Refuge Project – a global project to study the impact of Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees (MBTR-R) on the mental-, physical- and inter-generational health of refugees and asylum seekers around the world.
Although we believe that MBTR-R will be a transformative innovation in refugee mental health, our good intentions and initial randomized control clinical trial findings are not enough. We must now conduct ambitious, rigorous and compassionate scientific study of MBTR-R among diverse populations of forcibly displaced people in urban re-settlement and refugee camp settings around the world.
We believe that we can and will bring moments of refuge to the lives of millions of refugees and asylum seekers. To do so, we need your help, and in particular, funding to support this massive multi-site, multi-team effort over the next 5+ years. We are now working to raise an estimated $4-5 million to support our intervention and research teams in N. America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Together, we can work to transform the lives and communities of refugees and asylum seekers across the world, one moment at a time.
MORE ABOUT THE OBSERVING MINDS LAB
Through science and practice, our Observing Minds Laboratory is dedicated to helping those who struggle and suffer live better lives. Our lab’s research has focused on how mental health and illness are shaped by the ways in which we process, experience and respond to our internal states (e.g., thought, emotion, physical sensations). More specifically, our lab’s work has focused on (i) developing methods to optimally measure and study the psychological processes that characterize our internal mental lives; (ii) applying these methods to advance our understanding of these processes and mental health; and thereby (iii) developing novel and effective means to therapeutically target these processes so as to cultivate mental health.
MORE ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA
אוניברסיטת חיפה, המולטיברסיטה הראשונה של ישראל, נוסדה בשנת 1972 וייעודה המרכזי הוא לקיים מחקר והוראה אקדמית מצטיינים, מתוך תפיסה שפריצות דרך מדעיות מחייבות שבירה של הכללים הקיימים, תוך הסתמכות על חשיבה יצירתית וביקורתית. אוניברסיטת חיפה משקיעה משאבים עצומים במחקר חוצה תחומים ודיסציפלינות ויוצרת אגב כך "ענני" ידע חדשים, התואמים את הסביבה הדינאמית של המאה ה-21.
MORE ABOUT DR. ASAF FEDERMAN AND MINDFULNESS.CO.IL
Dr. Asaf Federman is an independent scholar, teacher and therapist. His recent book on mindfulness (in Hebrew) provides a thorough introduction and 8 lessons and recordings for self-practice. Asaf co-founded and headed the MBSR teacher training program at the Muda Institute, lectured at Haifa University and is teaching in Tovana. His blog provides more writing about mindfulness, art, psychology, meditation and Buddhism.
MUDA INSTITUTE FOR MINDFULNESS SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Muda Institute for Mindfulness Science and Society was founded in 2009 by Dr. Nava Levit Binnun with the purpose of integrating expertise in neuroscience and cognitive training in mindfulness.
Educators, psychologists and neuroscientists work together at the Institute to develop specialist programs for schools, health organizations and the general public. Within that, the Muda Institute offers MBSR courses, year-long deepening mindfulness courses, and MBSR teacher training diploma.
THE MIND BODY CENTER IN RAMAT HASHARON
The Mind Body Center in Ramat Hasharon was established in 1998 to provide a supportive space for studying and practicing a wide range of content, both for the general public and for care professionals. The curriculum provides tools for personal or professional application and is based on the worlds of Western psychology, Eastern psychology and innovative approaches that combine them. At the center, all workshops, courses and curricula are delivered by the best instructors in the country, in a warm, supportive, homely atmosphere.
THE MINDFULNESS-BASED THERAPY PROGRAM AT BAR-ILAN
TheMindfulness-Based therapy program at Bar-Ilan offers a three year, in-depth theoretical, clinical and experiential course of study, drawing upon cognitive, psychoanalytical and relational sources together with original Buddhist texts and western mindfulness studies.
MORE ABOUT TORVANA INSIGHT MEDITATION
Torvana Insight Meditation Insight Association is a supportive and organizing body for those who want to awaken through development and practice of attention in daily life through Insight (Vipassana) meditation that draws inspiration, understanding and knowledge from Buddhist tradition, philosophy and practice as a way of life.
