Mindfulness North Canterbury

Local, professional, grounded in research and science, facilitated with heart.

Connecting modern day neuroscience with ancient wisdom

If you have missed out on tickets for this event please check back next week. If we go down to level 1 we can release another 43 tickets :) Kate

Mindfulness North Canterbury is excited to present a fundraising community event with a screening of "my year of living mindfully" all money from ticket sales goes to Community Wellbeing North Canterbury Trust and this will get us all ready for the start of Mental health awareness week.

ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY

My Year of Living Mindfully is filled with compelling stories, groundbreaking science, and unexpected insights that go to the heart of what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

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, Shannon enlisted a team of scientists to put meditation to the test. Could learning to quiet our busy minds be the simple solution the world so desperately needs?

Throughout her year of living mindfully Shannon is poked, prodded, scanned and screened as she travels the world to interview 18 of the world’s leading mindfulness scientists and pioneers. 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.For more about the documentary

For more information about mindfulness courses in North Canterbury including MBSR that is mentioned in the documentary visit here .

Schedule:

Be seated by 6.15 pm

Movie time! 6.30 pm (run time1hr 38min)

8.10 pm Mini guided mindfulness practice

Opportunity for Q&A

A quick hello from Mindfulness North Canterbury and our funds recipient Community Wellbeing North Canterbury Trust about what they do.

Tickets will be limited because of level 2 guidelines re social distancing.