Welcome to mindfulness @ work !
Mindfulness is a mental state of increased focus, heightened awareness and openness. It receives more and more attention within Psychology as a means for reducing stress, improving well-being, and the ability to flow with a given situation, enabling to react with an appropriate emotional response.
Our bespoke training programmes enable the integration of mindfulness practices into corporate leadership and the workplace.
- focused in the reality of the present moment
- enhanced awareness of moment-to-moment experience
- acknowledging without getting caught up in emotional reactions
- reduced negative affect and improved vitality
- flexibility in coping with a given situation
Benefits of being mindful
Mindfulness @ work provides participants with training in meditation techniques to develop their quality of “mindfulness”. Participants learn to approach potentially stressful situations mindfully enabling them to choose how to respond instead of automatically reacting to it.
The ability to notice what is going on as it arises and to pause before we respond is an important skill in coping with potentially stressful demands at work and at home. Mindfulness meditation training has been shown to foster the ability to recognise very quick emotional impulses and provide the inner freedom to let them go.
A plethora of research has meanwhile shown positive effects of mindfulness training in various patient groups, including patients suffering from chronic pain, cancer, anxiety disorders, depression and the stresses of contexts as diverse as medical school and prison life. In non-clinical populations it has also been shown to induce positive affect and appears to improve the responsiveness of the immune system.
Within the corporate environment mindfulness training may be offered as proactive/preventive approach for improving the ability of employees to develop or maintain healthy attitudes and responses to potentially stressful situations.
Although the primary responsibility to reduce external stressors is with the employer, every employee will perceive and deal with situations in a different way. Accordingly, empowering employees to cope with demanding and potentially stressful situations more effectively will benefit their health and well-being as well as the company as a whole.
The programmes
A typical mindfulness training course will consist of a series of 90 minute sessions (usually 7 or 8), taking place once a week. In addition, participants will be encouraged to engage in short self-directed activities to establish mindfulness on a daily basis.
We offer bespoke programmes ajusted to your needs and requirements. read more »»
