Last year, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr launched
the David Lynch Foundation’s “Change Begins Within”
global outreach to teach one million at-risk
adolescents and teens stress-reducing meditation at
an historic concert at Radio City Music Hall. Since
then, nearly 150,000 inner-city students have begun
utilizing these techniques to eliminate traumatic
stress that undermines academic achievement and
short-circuits lives. These students have
dramatically better test scores, grades, and
graduation rates while drop out rates, suspensions,
and expulsions have greatly decreased. The program
has the full-hearted support of superintendents,
principals, faculty, students, and parents.
More groups of people from all walks of life have
come to embrace our program, including veterans
suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and
their families; homeless adults; children from the
streets of Harlem and East LA; American Indians
subsisting on impoverished reservations; and
incarcerated men and women locked away in maximum
security penitentiaries. And the demand has never
been greater in New York City; in particular among
local schools, veterans groups, and homeless shelter
re-entry programs.
I am proud to invite you to the second “Change
Begins Within” benefit on Monday December
13, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York City. Russell Brand, Clint Eastwood, Mehmet
Oz, Katy Perry, Russell Simmons, myself, and other
very special guests will be part of a very different
and exciting evening which lays out as follows:
• 6:30 p.m. — Great Hall
Cocktail reception
• 7:30 p.m. — The Grace
Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Find out directly from Dr. Oz how you can overcome
the build-up of stress (holiday and otherwise) in
your own life and hear from Russell, Clint, Katy,
and Russell how combat-frayed veterans, inner-city
students and New York’s homeless are overcoming the
traumatic stresses of their lives.
• 8:30 p.m. — The Temple of
Dendur in the Sackler Wing
in all its mystic beauty will be the setting for
dinner with amazing guest entertainment
I hope you will be part of this extraordinary event,
and discover firsthand why change begins within. Let
it begin with you.
I look forward to seeing you there.
David Lynch
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