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Rewiring the Muse to Restore Creative Flow
In this episode of Brainforest Café, Dennis McKenna sits down with
award-winning filmmaker Greg Hemmings to discuss the transformative
power of storytelling and its ability to catalyze social and
environmental change. Greg reveals his personal battle with long COVID
and how it led to his Rewiring the Muse project, which uses
neuroscience and EEG data to track his recovery.
The conversation also explores Greg’s diverse film projects, including
the sci-fi series Revival, the scripted feature on homelessness What
We Dreamed of Then, and the climate documentary The Berg. It further
delves into his profound experience using Wachuma in Peru to reorganize
his brainwaves and restore the creative energy lost during his struggle
with long COVID.
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Greg Hemmings is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker whose work examines how storytelling can catalyze positive social and environmental change. He is the founder of Hemmings House Pictures, a certified B Corporation that produces documentary, factual, and scripted works for international audiences.
Greg’s recent projects explore the intersections of neuroscience, creativity, ecology, and consciousness, with particular interest in how human relationships to nature, including traditional and contemporary research into plant-based knowledge systems, can inform wellbeing and collective resilience. In 2023, he received an honorary doctorate for contributions to the arts and social change. Greg is also a mentor, speaker, musician, and lifelong student of what helps humans—and the planet—thrive.
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In this episode of Brainforest Café, Dennis McKenna sits down with
award-winning filmmaker Greg Hemmings to discuss the transformative
power of storytelling and its ability to catalyze social and
environmental change. Greg reveals his personal battle with long COVID
and how it led to his Rewiring the Muse project, which uses
neuroscience and EEG data to track his recovery.
The conversation also explores Greg’s diverse film projects, including
the sci-fi series Revival, the scripted feature on homelessness What
We Dreamed of Then, and the climate documentary The Berg. It further
delves into his profound experience using Wachuma in Peru to reorganize
his brainwaves and restore the creative energy lost during his struggle
with long COVID.
- - -
Greg Hemmings is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker whose work examines how storytelling can catalyze positive social and environmental change. He is the founder of Hemmings House Pictures, a certified B Corporation that produces documentary, factual, and scripted works for international audiences.
Greg’s recent projects explore the intersections of neuroscience, creativity, ecology, and consciousness, with particular interest in how human relationships to nature, including traditional and contemporary research into plant-based knowledge systems, can inform wellbeing and collective resilience. In 2023, he received an honorary doctorate for contributions to the arts and social change. Greg is also a mentor, speaker, musician, and lifelong student of what helps humans—and the planet—thrive.
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