Rewiring the Muse to Restore Creative Flow

About this episode

Dennis McKenna interviews filmmaker Greg Hemmings about storytelling's impact on social and environmental change and his personal journey with long COVID.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Dennis McKenna

Guest: Greg Hemmings

Topics covered

• storytelling
• creativity
• neuroscience
• social change
• environmental change
• long COVID

Keywords

• storytelling
• creativity
• neuroscience
• long COVID
• environmental change
• Wachuma
• film projects

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hemmings House Pictures

Books & works: Revival, What We Dreamed of Then, The Berg

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