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Coming Soon

What's your favorite film? The one you keep going back to? I'll do a weekly poll for you to vote on. I'll also list a few other personal favorites that may be curriculum classes in our Cinema Therapy program very soon. You can vote for your favorite or email me to suggest another for us to consider. 

 

While Yes, And...eXercise! is a 501(c)3 nonprofit serving the Parkinson's disease (PD) community, this program is designed for and open to everyone, regardless of affiliation to PD.

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What is Cinema Therapy?

Cinema Therapy works like this: We connect with certain films on a deep level because they reflect pieces of our own lives or deepest emotions back to us. We identify with the hero on the journey because we all wish we could save Christmas, win the love of our lives, and see the bad guys get what they deserve. More than just passively watch a film, we take it apart scene by scene and put it up against Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey to identify the innately human patterns. Seeing these things in others can help us understand our own longings and create a narrative where we, or a character that comes from us, learns how to write, rewrite and win. Come explore with us.

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This new, evidence-based, clinically-tested writing program is open to everyone. While Yes, And...eXercise! is a 501(c)3 nonprofit serving the Parkinson's disease community, these classes are designed for all. We meet online for 90 minutes, once per week over the course of 16 weeks. Participants will write one page per week about their experience and share it on a password-protected Google Drive with classmates. Each participant is also expected to read and leave feedback on two of their fellow classmates pages as this is an ensemble-based program. We will start each session by moving to music that is themed to the stage of the Hero's Journey, then play improvisation games that support our growth, understanding and connection to one another. We will also watch clips from a film that demonstrates the Hero's Journey. All sessions will be recorded so that students who have to miss a session at its scheduled time can catch up at their convenience. 

A few of my other favorite films...

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