{"id":13657,"date":"2013-04-30T10:05:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=13657"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:05:02","slug":"intern-paid-immediate-start-mindfulnessmeditation-film-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2013\/04\/30\/intern-paid-immediate-start-mindfulnessmeditation-film-project\/","title":{"rendered":"[INTERN] Paid, Immediate Start \/ Mindfulness+Meditation Film Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Seeking Intern (with paid stipend) to work on research, web development\/marketing and promotion for film\u00a0about contemplation and neuroscience in an at-risk school. \u00a0Immediate Start!<\/p>\n<div>Seeking a motivated, ITP student or recent grad who is fascinated with mindfulness and mediation\u00a0to research, make a simple website, submit to festivals and help us achieve critical mass with social networks for a worthy film project.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>My film CHANGING MINDS AT CONCORD HIGH SCHOOL just premiered to a sold out house at the Rubin Museum \u00a0where it received a standing ovation. \u00a0During the talk-back , Congressman Tim Ryan, author of A MINDFUL NATION \u00a0invited me to screen the film in Washington \u00a0and discuss how to get the curriculum I designed into at-risk high schools.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an ITP graduate with an interest in using technology to inform and enhance mindfulness and social and emotional learning in school.\u00a0For the last decade, I&#8217;ve been working with at-risk kids integrating film production into school curriculum to make learning more real and relevant.\u00a0During that time, I became keenly aware of the challenges my students were facing: learning differences, attentional and emotional issues \u00a0and coping with chronic academic failure.<\/p>\n<p>I knew from personal experience that meditation could provide the students with a technique to work with their minds and I was keenly interested in the scientific research that was starting to confirm the benefits. \u00a0I reached out to scientists working in the field of contemplative research (from Harvard, Portland State and Hunter College)\u00a0and with their input, designed a program that integrated both the science and meditation into the school day. The science class studied the brain and the latest contemplative research.<br \/>\nInspired by their understanding of mindfulness and the concept of neuroplasticity, \u00a0the students in the science class assisted Tracy Dennis, Ph.D., our lead scientist, as research assistants<br \/>\nin a school-wide experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Partnering with award-winning filmmaker Peter Barton (former Tisch film professor) we filmed the entire process.<\/p>\n<p>Our goals: To get the film out to parents, students and educators. And to create replicable curriculum that&#8217;s proven effective and\u00a0integrate it into at-risk high schools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Apply to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:susanfinley@icloud.com\" target=\"_blank\">susanfinley@icloud.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Intern (with paid stipend) to work on research, web development\/marketing and promotion for film\u00a0about contemplation and neuroscience in an at-risk school. \u00a0Immediate Start! Seeking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intern","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}