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In The Workplace

The workplace is a myriad of attitudes, personalities, and expectations - appreciating those differences is what Mindfulness teaches. It allows leaders and employees to respond rather than react, to keep an open and creative mind, and to focus on finding a solution rather then replaying the problem.

Mindfulness At Work 

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Trainings and presentations address basic concentration/attention and focusing practices of mindfulness as well as information on stress physiology. Participants will be introduced to and invited to engage in a variety of practices, to include individual as well as interpersonal mindfulness activities.  Length and number of sessions to meet the unique goals for your organization will be determined in consultation with your team.

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Session Objectives:

  • Recognize the relationship between mindfulness and stress recovery

  • Learn and practice mindfulness as a stillness practice as well as in motion

  • Learn about and practice using mindfulness to interrupt automatic habitual patterns

  • Interact with and connect with others through the practice of mindfulness

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Session Outcomes:

  • Develop skills for dealing effectively with stress, individually and within organizations

  • Experience more presence, access to improved mood, and decreased job burnout

  • Improve sense of resiliency and the capacity to recover from challenges

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Benefits of Mindfulness:

  • Improved employee health and well-being

  • Reduced sickness, absenteeism and employee turnover

  • Greater leadership and team effectiveness

  • Employee resilience

  • Higher levels of motivation and engagement​

  • Increased attention and concentration

  • Better decision making capabilities

  • Higher levels of creativity and innovation

  • Increased job satisfaction

  • Relationship and team building

MBSR 8-Week Program

This program is modeled after the original University of Massachusetts Medical School Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program, created by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979. I utilize the most current curriculum updates as available through the Mindfulness Center at Brown University School of Public Health.

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The course meets once/week for 2 1/2 hours. Additionally, there is an initial Orientation Meeting and an All-Day Retreat session on a Saturday or Sunday, according to needs of the organization. In the MBSR program, participants will learn to access and cultivate their natural capacity to actively engage in caring for themselves and find greater balance, ease, and peace of mind. The program requires purposeful dedication on participant’s part to develop and sustain a daily practice of meditation during the 8-week course.

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Current research is showing that participation in the 8-week program enhances the experience of self-efficacy and one’s view of the value of engaging in their own on-going health and well-being through meditation, yoga, and above all, the systematic cultivation of awareness, focusing and concentration practice.

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MBSR course participants receive:

  • Instruction in mindfulness meditation and mindful movement

  • Methods to enhance awareness in everyday life

  • Stress Management Techniques

  • Guided mindfulness recordings and worksheets for home practice

  • Support in a community of people learning and practicing together

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