Training
Mindfulness Training Purpose
The purpose of mindfulness training is to teach executives and corporate leaders working in stressful, high-performance environments how to use mindfulness practices to provide access to an immediate sense of calm and centeredness in the midst of difficult situations. Clients feel a greater self-awareness, improve their concentration and focus, and learn how to work with interfering negative, distracted forms of thinking and reactivity.
This training utilizes the practical skills of mindfulness – the essential ability to be present, self aware and cognizant of one’s environment or situation, as a core learning principle. Though we all have the capacity to be aware, normally our attention is scattered, distracted, or simply unfocused due to the business and complexity of demands at work and in our personal lives. By training the mind, we can cultivate and develop this capacity so we can sustain focus and attention and sharpen our clarity and perception.
Mindfulness Transformational Practices will help you:
- Sustain peak performance
- Access clarity, presence and centeredness in times of pressure
- Refine your focus and mental clarity
- Be less affected by habitual and negative patterns of thought
- Cultivate work / life balance
- Develop profound self-awareness personally and professionally
- Develop responsive, purposeful thinking
- Connect with creative "out of the box" solutions
- Learn empathic listening
- Cultivate intuitive discernment – thinking from the gut
- Develop inner resiliency and flexibility
- Increase self-awareness about stress and how to prevent it
- Have greater clarity about oneself, others
and your environment
What is involved in a Mindfulness Training
Learning mindfulness as a core competency, participants will be taught specific tools and practices that develop and enhance skills development in these key areas:
- Principles and practice of Mindfulness
- Instant centering techniques
- Calming practices
- Concentration skills
- Body awareness & relaxation methods
- Thinking from the gut to guide decision-making
- Knowing how to work with distracted and unwanted thinking
- Handling difficult emotions
- Developing purposeful thinking
Training Structure
There are many possible training formats to present the material including:
- Weekly courses
- Half-day – multi day presentations
Presentations will be in a practical and experiential workshop format. The time will be divided between presentations, exercises, discussion and contemplative practices. Work and home assignments practices, reflections and assignments aid integration of this modality. Given the practical and experiential nature of this work, the program includes a 2-hour follow up consultation after the initial training. Ongoing executive mindfulness coaching facilitates deeper integration of the material.
Course size: Mindfulness trainings can be taught to groups of any size and can be taught to executives on an individual basis.