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Lessons from the sunflower / written by Scot Morison ; directed and produced by Ava Karvonen.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Csorba, Steven.
- Artists--Biography.
- Artists.
- Cancer--Patients--Biography.
- Cancer.
- Sunflowers.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Biographical films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (81 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Stonington, CT : Green Planet Films, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- The beauty and resilience of the humble sunflower inspires an artist's life, work and commitment to helping others face their own challenges following a devastating cancer diagnosis. Lessons from the Sunflower is the inspiring story of one artist's determination to make the most of a second go at life. Steven Csorba uses his experience as a survivor of a devastating illness, and the example of resilience and beauty in the struggle that he draws from a simple, common garden plant to help others understand how they too can overcome enormous challenges to healing, improve their overall health, discover a deeper purpose in life and ultimately find the happiness all of us yearn for. At 38, Steven Csorba was a well-known visual artist, and highly-paid, award-winning brand strategist and corporate communications consultant living in Edmonton when his life was suddenly upended by a chilling diagnosis. Radical surgery saved him, but it also dramatically altered his appearance. He had to relearn how to speak and swallow. He endured numerous reconstructive procedures and years of recovery and rehab. Newly divorced, unable to find work, and with three young sons to support, Csorba felt himself rapidly sliding into despair. That's when he remembered something his late mother told him. Helping others is the key to finding true meaning in one's life. Taking his mother's advice to heart, Csorba resolved to use his own intimate experience with illness, the insights and knowledge he had absorbed as a professional communicator, and his brilliant creative gifts as a painter and graphic designer to support and mentor others going through difficult personal journeys. He has adopted the sunflower, that ungainly but hardy plant that just keeps climbing towards the light through stormy weather and drought alike, as an unlikely but powerful symbol of adaptability and resilience in the face of tremendous obstacles.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a documentary film in 2023.
- Title from resource description page (viewed April 09, 2025).
- OCLC:
- 1501448569
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