Barnet Bain is a Canadian film-maker, author and educator.  Select film credits include Milton’s Secret (director, writer), Oscar-winner What Dreams May Come (producer), Emmy-Award nominee, Outstanding TV Movie, Homeless to Harvard (executive producer), and The Celestine Prophecy (writer, producer).

Barnet consults and trains business leaders and private clients who are committed to high performance. Through his creativity workshops, Barnet guides people of all ages and walks of life to expand their vision of what is possible, and develop their gifts and talents with passion.

Barnet is a faculty member of Columbia University, Spirituality Mind Body Institute, and Esalen Institute.   He is the author of The Book of Doing and Being: Rediscovering Creativity in Life, Love and Work, (Atria, 2015) and The Third Story: Awakening the Love That Transforms,(Spindrift, 2013).

Barnet is an official partner with ‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Foundation’ which enjoys participation of millions of community, corporate, and educational leaders annually, including the White House, who are using Barnet’s creativity content in their 2016-2017 curriculum for communities, schools and corporations.

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THE BOOK OF DOING AND BEING:

REDISCOVERING CREATIVITY IN LIFE, LOVE AND WORK.

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PRAISE ABOUT THE BOOK:

“Barnet Bain has devoted his life and career to manifesting his creativity in a way that not only gives his life purpose but brings meaning and hope to the lives of others.  With this book, he reveals to us how we can do the very same thing.  Put simply, if you want your life to count in ways you’ve previously only dreamed of you owe it to yourself to read this book!”

Ivan Misner, Ph.D.

NY Times Bestselling Author and Founder of BNI®

“No need to wait any longer for inspiration to strike or for the Muse to arrive in order to be creative. The Book of Doing and Being eloquently presents a treasury of creativity methods that you can use at any time.”

Zhena Muzyka

Founder Gypsy Tea Company,  author of Life by the Cup

“In this ode to the power of being, creativity, flow and essence, Barnet Bain teaches us how to access our forgotten self so that we may live to our highest potential. Insightful, practical and deeply compelling!”

Dr. Shefali Tsabary

Author of NYT Bestseller, The Conscious Parent

“A glorious guide into our own possibility, into and past our blocks, to our true liberated being.   Barnet Bain gives us reason to believe in ourselves, and with some helpful steps, to realize our true nature, our calling!”

Lisa Miller, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology. Columbia University, Author, The Spiritual Child: The New Science of Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving

“Barnet has found the most eloquent and experiential way of awakening in us, and drawing from our souls the very energy required to illuminate and electrify this planet with an unparalled creative force, definitely a book of the year!”

Lisa Nichols

author of New York Times best selling book, No Matter What, featured teacher in The Secret

“With brilliant clarity, delightful humor and deep insight, Barnet Bain reveals in The Book of Doing and Being how everyone can unlock their inner potential for creativity and make their dreams come true. I highly recommend it.”

John Gray, PhD

Best-selling author Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“Barnet Bain’s book gracefully conveys the thrill and discipline of the creative process. It will stretch you in unexpected ways that can unlock your creative heart.”

Geneen Roth

author, NYT bestseller Women Food and God and Lost and Found

“Barnet is one of the most creative people I have ever met.  In this book he brilliantly shares how you, too, can release your creativity to consciously create the life you dream of.  I highly recommend it.”

Jack Canfield

co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series

This is quite simply the best book on creativity I’ve ever read. It is, at once, an eloquent theory of where the creative spark ‘lives’ and how best to access it, a complete toolkit for igniting your own creative potential, and a masterclass in the power of living life without a discernible compass.

Lynne McTaggart

international bestselling author of The Field, The Intention Experiment and The Bond

“In The Book of Doing and Being, Barnet Bain affirms that creativity and real work are for the inner life what exercise is for the body. There’s no getting around it, and immersing ourselves in it brings us alive. This book offers aerobics for the heart.”

Mark Nepo

author of The Endless Practice and Inside the Miracle

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