An Evening with Goldie Hawn: Inside MindUP

Join us for an Art & Wellness Festival keynote with Goldie Hawn—award-winning actor, producer, and philanthropist—centered on MindUP, the signature program of The Goldie Hawn Foundation.

Built on neuroscience and social-emotional learning, MindUP offers simple, practical tools that help children, families, and educators strengthen attention, manage stress, and cultivate optimism in everyday life.

In this candid, uplifting conversation, Goldie shares what sparked MindUP, why well-being skills matter now more than ever, and how small habits—from mindful breathing to gratitude practices—can create calmer classrooms, stronger families, and more connected communities.

Tickets are $25 ($20 for members), reserve your spot online or with Guest Experience at (479) 657-2335 today.

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn is an Academy Award-winning actress, producer, director, best-selling author, and true children’s advocate. She is the Founder of The Goldie Hawn Foundation, a public charity with a mission to equip children with the social and emotional skills they need to lead smarter, healthier, happier, and ultimately more productive lives.

Alarmed by increases in school violence, youth depression, and suicide, and the persistent failure of the education system to help children cope with increasingly stressful lives, Hawn started her Foundation in 2003, applying cutting-edge scientific research to create education programs that support the social and emotional development of children. Working with leading neuroscientists, educators, psychologists, and researchers, the Foundation developed MindUP™, an evidence-based curriculum and teaching model for grades K–12 that provides tools to help children self-regulate and understand their own emotions, moods, and behaviors; reduce stress and anxiety; sharpen concentration; increase empathy; and improve academic performance.

MindUP™ is the signature program of The Goldie Hawn Foundation, which is serving over six million children in the US, Canada, UK, Finland, Ireland, Greece, Venezuela, Uganda, Portugal, Serbia, Jordan, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand. The skills and mindfulness practices that are being taught have helped children improve learning and academic performance and learn valuable social and emotional skills that build personal resilience for a lifetime.

Hawn authored two best-selling books, a memoir A Lotus Grows in the Mud (2005), and in 2011, 10 Mindful Minutes, offering guidance on raising healthy, joyful and resilient children. In 2015, Hawn released 10 Mindful Minutes: A Journal, a practical application to her last book, offering prompts and exercises to enhance the reader’s daily life through mindfulness practice.

Goldie has lived with her partner Kurt Russell for over 30 years and has four grown children: Oliver and Kate Hudson, Wyatt Russell, and stepson Boston Russell. They have also been blessed with six grandchildren. Hawn believes “children light the path to joy” and has dedicated much of her life’s work to creating innovative solutions to help children thrive.