Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness

Mindful Movie Discussion: The Magnitude of All Things
with Guest Instructor

August 30 (Thursday)
at 7:30 pm

Class length
90 minutes

The Midwest Alliance is organizing a special FREE screening of the award winning documentary "The Magnitude of All Things". Watch the movie on your own by midnight Friday April 22 using the link you will be provided via email shortly after registration. Then join us Sunday April 24th from 6-7:30 pm for a community discussion of the film.

Magnitude merges stories from the frontlines of climate change with recollections of the loss of the film maker's sister, drawing intimate parallels between personal and planetary grief.. This cinematic journey by the Sundance award-winning director (The Corporation) takes us around the world to witness a planet in crisis: from Australia’s catastrophic fires and dying Great Barrier Reef, to the island nation of Kiribati, drowned by rising sea levels. In Nunatsiavut, melting ice permanently alters the landscape, while in the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous people fight a desperate battle against oil and mining extraction.

For the people featured, climate change is not happening in the distant future; it is kicking down the front door, flooding homes, poisoning water and destroying communities. The connection between humanity and the environment is stated plainly by Australia’s Wonnarua Traditional Custodians: “If this land hurts, we hurt.”

Like ash from a distant fire, grief on this scale touches everything. But coming to terms with the brutal reality of climate breakdown requires more than empty words and gestures. When hope is lost, the real work begins. Members of Extinction Rebellion protest in the streets, risking arrest. Greta Thunberg’s school strike grows from a solitary vigil to a mass movement. The Sápara, Wonnarua and Nunatsiavut land defenders hold the line in a life and death struggle. Facing her own mortality, Jennifer’s sister offers another kind of answer: “Just a simple, quiet openness to all that is.” Battles waged, lamentations of loss, and raw testimony coalesce into an extraordinary tapestry, woven together with raw emotion and staggering beauty that transform darkness into light, grief into action.

If our discussion group doesn't work for your schedule, you can instead attend a live virtual climate grief circle facilitated by the Good Grief Network on April 21st at 1pm PT / 4pm ET https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/earth-day-guidance-to-climate-grief-resilience-tickets-307093865017


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