5/18/2023 0 Comments Goldie hawn mindup curriculumIt's an honor to have her as our guest today to discuss her leadership and considerable accomplishments. While Goldie can look back at a star studded and incredibly prolific career in both Hollywood and public service, she has no intention of slowing down anytime soon. Mind Up, the Goldie Hawn Foundation, now serves over 6 million children in more than a dozen countries with their innovative classroom programming. She'd been a dancer, singer, producer, and, for the past decades, she has run a leading global nonprofit dedicated to creating healthier minds for a healthier world. Though most know her as an Academy Award winning actress with a decades long career, Goldie Hawn is so much more. Goldie Hawn also has become an established activist and global leader at the intersection of mental health and education. Having made her name as one of Hollywood's most iconic stars. Our guest today is an incredible leader who has spent her career leveraging her public platform to do good. I'm here with my good friend, Goldie Hawn. You're listening to Leadership Matters on Sirius XM. Goldie Hawn explains why being of service and helping children is her "greatest joy" Goldie Hawn on the importance of mental health awareness for kids, and why technology can be a danger Goldie Hawn speaks about the importance of her family life, and the "boomerang effect" of joy in raising a good family Goldie Hawn explains why she entered a depressive state when she first became an actress Goldie Hawn describes the scientific research that went into her MindUp program for children Hawn believes “children light the path to joy” and dedicated much of her life’s work to creating innovative solutions to help children thrive. They have also been blessed with six grandchildren. Goldie has lived with her partner Kurt Russell for over 30 years and has four grown children, Oliver and Kate Hudson, Wyatt Russell and stepson Boston Russell. In 2015, Hawn released “10 Mindful Minutes: A Journal”, a practical application to her last book, offering prompts and exercises to enhance the reader’s daily life through mindfulness practice. Hawn authored two best-selling books, a memoir “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, in 2005 and in 2011, “10 Mindful Minutes”, offering guidance on raising healthy, joyful and resilient children. The skills and mindfulness practices that are being taught have helped children improve learning and academic performance and learn valuable social and emotional skills that build personal resilience for a lifetime. MindUP ™ is the signature program of The Hawn Foundation which is serving over six million children in the US, Canada, UK, Finland, Ireland, Venezuela, Uganda, Portugal, Serbia, Jordan, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand. Working with leading neuroscientists, educators, psychologists and researchers, the Foundation developed MindUP ™ an evidence-based curriculum and teaching model for grades K-12 that provide tools to help children self-regulate and understand their own emotions, moods and behaviors reduce stress and anxiety sharpen concentration increase empathy and improve academic performance. She created The Hawn Foundation, a public charity with a mission to equip children with the social and emotional skills they need to lead smarter, healthier, happier and ultimately more productive lives.Īlarmed by increases in school violence, youth depression and suicide, and the persistent failure of the education system to help children cope with increasingly stressful lives, Hawn started her Foundation in 2003, applying cutting edge scientific research to create education programs that support the social and emotional development of children. Goldie Hawn is an Academy Award winning actress, producer, director, best-selling author and true children’s advocate. And as a nonprofit leader, she is actively working to create healthier minds for a healthier world. As an actress, Goldie has brought laughter and smiles to countless families. In the twenty years since its launch, MindUp has provided innovative classroom experiences to over six million children around the world. ![]() In 2003, she created her foundation to join this personal focus with her passion for children and education. Over the years, Goldie has been especially forthright in publicly discussing her own therapeutic journey and the heavy weight of stardom. Alan and Goldie dive into the Academy Award-winning actress’s fascinating career and her complex journey to Hollywood. Though she is now a world-renowned, Academy Award-winning actress, Goldie’s path towards fame was hardly planned out. In this episode of Leadership Matters, Alan is joined by Goldie Hawn, the esteemed actress, dancer, and producer who serves as the founder and CEO of MindUp, the Goldie Hawn Foundation. And if we don't prepare them, we're not preparing the greatest resource we have. Our children are going to inherit this world and aren’t prepared.
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