We looked at clips from 12 different movies aligned with the Hero’s Journey:
Ordinary World: Home Alone
Call to Adventure: Daddy’s Home 2
Refusal of the Call: The Holiday
Meeting the Mentor: Scrooged
Crossing the Threshold: Miracle on 34th St.
Tests, Allies & Enemies: A Christmas Story
Approach to the Inmost Cave: Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
The Ordeal: Elf
The Reward: It’s a Wonderful Life
The Road Back: Love Actually
Resurrection: Christmas Vacation
Return with Elixir: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
We shared what we noticed and felt, identifying themes and bringing ourselves to the journey. We heard how many people struggle with the holidays and the different ways we, sometimes miraculously, get through them.
Please join us for the next Christmas Movie Hero’s Journey on Friday, Dec. 13th. You can find out more and register here: https://www.yesandexercise.org/christmas
Dr. Robert Cochrane is a graduate of UNLV's Integrated Health Sciences department. He's researching the effect of improvisation and storytelling on Parkinson’s disease. He received grants from the Parkinson's Foundation and support from the Davis Phinney Foundation along the way. He is a popular, unique and high energy Keynote speaker, bringing joy, optimism and practical tools for people in the PD community to thrive today.
He has a background in filmmaking, with the Artisan Entertainment release, The Playaz Court, and two Stephen King-based short films among his credits. His father, Dan, was diagnosed with PD in 2001, which shifted Robert’s artistic lens to health. He made his first documentary, the award-winning Boys of Summer in 2004. There are two follow up films in the series with the fourth film coming in 2023.
He moved his family back to Walnut Creek, CA, where he grew up. He lives there with his beautiful wife, two teenagers who are, indeed, "all that" and is a proud care partner for his amazing parents.
