MIND FOOD FILM Series: Mindwalk

For the passionate thinker... come along to our screening of Mindwalk - a rich tapestry of ideas, weaving together philosophy, science, and art in a captivating narrative that will challenge our perspectives and inspire profound insights.

As we follow a poet, a politican and a scientist on their philosophical journey through Mont Saint-Michel, we are invited to contemplate the nature of reality, the power of systems thinking, and the potential for perception transformation.

Whether you're a seeker of knowledge, a lover of deep conversation, or simply someone who enjoys a cinematic experience that leaves a lasting impression, Mindwalk promises to feed your mind and nourish your soul.

WHAT IS MIND FOOD FILMS?

Mind Food Films is a series of film screenings from the Permaculture Education Institute. All films screened have been picked to be food for thought - expanding your ideas of the world we know is possible and delving into the various aspects of systems thinking.

Films in this series:

• Symbiotic Earth - the life and ideas of radical ecological scientist, Lynn Margulis
  • 1 May 9am AEST (America time-friendly)
  • 1 May 7pm AEST (Europe/Asia/Africa time-friendly)

• Regenerating Life - how to cool the planet, feed the world, and live happily ever after!
  
  • 8 May 9am AEST (America time-friendly)
  • 8 May 7pm AEST (Europe/Asia/Africa time-friendly)

ABOUT THE FILM

Patterned after Galileo Galilei’s classic Dialogue Concerning the Two Principal World Systems, the film features a physicist (Liv Ullmann), a politician (Sam Waterston), and a poet (John Heard) who meet on the tidal island of Mont Saint Michel in France and spend a day in scientific, philosophical, and political discussions. The implications of the profound change of paradigms from a mechanistic to a systemic and ecological worldview, which lies at the heart of Mindwalk, are even more relevant today than they were thirty years ago when we made the film.

Since its release in 1991, Mindwalk has become a cult classic, showing not only in theaters, but in college courses and business seminars. Written by Bernt Capra, it turns his brother's, Fritjof Capra, book The Turning Point into a narrative dialogue. Social and environmental concerns are at the heart of the film, which proposes alternative solutions based on Systems Theory, along with insights into Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics.

ABOUT FRITJOF CAPRA

Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., is a scientist, educator, activist, and author of many international bestsellers that connect conceptual changes in science with broader changes in worldview and values in society.

A Vienna-born physicist and systems theorist, Capra first became popularly known for his book, The Tao of Physics, which explored the ways in which modern physics was changing our worldview from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological one. Published in 1975, it is still in print in more than 40 editions worldwide and is referenced with the statue of Shiva in the courtyard of one of the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research: CERN, the Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva.

Over the past 30 years, Capra has been engaged in a systematic exploration of how other sciences and society are ushering in a similar shift in worldview, or paradigms, leading to a new vision of reality and a new understanding of the social implications of this cultural transformation.

His textbook, The Systems View of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2014), presents a grand new synthesis of this work—integrating the biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions of life into one unified vision. Several critics have suggested that The Systems View of Life, which Capra coauthored with Pier Luigi Luisi, Professor of Biology at the University of Rome, is destined to become another classic.

Capra was a founding director (1995–2020) of the Berkeley-based Center for Ecoliteracy, which is dedicated to advancing ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education, and serves on the faculty of the Amana-Key executive education program in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a Fellow of Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in the UK, and serves on the Council of Earth Charter International.

He is the author of The Turning Point (1982), The Web of Life (1996), The Hidden Connections (2002), The Science of Leonardo (2007), Learning from Leonardo (2013), and Patterns of Connection (2021). He coauthored Green Politics (1984), Belonging to the Universe (1991), EcoManagement (1993), and The Ecology of Law (2015), and coedited Steering Business Toward Sustainability (1995). He also cowrote the screenplay for Mindwalk (1990), a film starring Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, and John Heard, created and directed by Bernt Capra.

The main focus of Capra’s environmental education and activism has been to help build and nurture sustainable communities. He believes that to do so, we can learn valuable lessons from the study of ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms.

THIS IS A ‘PAY WHAT YOU CAN’ EVENT - WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MONEY?

Whilst our events are free, we do warmly welcome your generous donation. We always send 100% of all donations received via our registered charity, Ethos Foundation. Any donation received from this event will go towards permaculture food forest nurseries and planting in East African refugee camps and locally-led classes to show youth how to set up and maintain a perennial food forest. People have been living in these camps for decades - perennial food systems are so much more reliable, robust, and abundant, and help to fight the hunger and poverty experienced every day.

HOST:  MORAG GAMBLE, PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE

ABOUT MORAG GAMBLE

Morag Gamble is the founder of the Permaculture Education Institute teaching permaculture educators and designers on six continents. She has lived for a quarter of a century in an award-winning ecovillage and has taught at leading ecological learning centres such as Schumacher College. She is also the creator of the

Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast, and the Our Permaculture LifeBLOG and YouTube collectively viewed over 10 million times. Morag also hosts the Ethos Fellowship - a 12-month youth leadership program, Ethos Foundation - a registered charity offering free permaculture education for refugees, and mentors and hosts the award-winning global Permayouth.

SPONSOR:  PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE

ABOUT THE SPONSOR

Permaculture Education Institute, based at Crystal Waters Ecovillage on Gubbi Gubbi country, offers programs to support people worldwide to become teachers of permaculture and to activate permaculture communities. The Institute hosts regular global conversations exploring one-planet living and earth restoration - through film, podcasts, masterclasses, discussion forums and many courses.

• The all-inclusive Permaculture Educators Program is an in-depth online course and global learning community combining the Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) and Permaculture Teacher Certificate, plus permaculture business modules. Start anytime. 
• Our foundational yearlong online Permaculture Design Course - will help you to create an amazing design for a place of your choice. Start anytime.
• The Incredible Edible Garden is our self-paced 6-module online permaculture gardening course