Looking back, she realized that her young, innocent brain was not able to assimilate or make sense of the information in the film, and instead of processing it as practical advice for an unlikely situation (as ludicrous as those Cold War videos seem now), watching it had put her into such a state of fear that she became frightened of sirens and didn’t want to go to school to avoid the possibility of having air raid practice.įast forward to 2014, and Hawn’s MindUP program, a social and emotional literacy curriculum and training program, serves over 400,000 children in schools across the United States and internationally. The film put Hawn into a complete state of anxiety, and she ran home to tell her mother she was convinced that everybody was going to die. (“They told us to hide under our desks when the Russians came - what would that do?” Hawn said, to audience laughter.)
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Instead, blaring sirens and an ominous countdown led into an instructional movie about what to do in case of an enemy attack. It was a terrifying experience with a school drill on enemy attacks that was the inadvertent precursor to Goldie Hawn’s MindUP program, the actress told an Aspen audience at a Murdock Mind, Body, Spirit Series event recently.Ī self-described happy and carefree child who decided from an early age that her “job in this life was to be happy,” Hawn was traumatized at age 11, when her sixth-grade class went to the school’s A/V room to watch what she assumed would be an agriculture film.
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