shifting work culture with mindfulness

(3 Part Series)

This 3 part series focuses on how to use mindfulness to promote a work culture of more collaboration, efficiency, and creativity, to balance the shortage of resources, increase in the demands and chronic stress that most organizations are facing today.

Creating Inclusive Generative Spaces

This workshop will offer an experiential taste of what it is like to be immersed in a generative social field - where individuals, motivated by shared values, can become a single focused entity operating at a greater capacity. One in which the collaborative space fuels clarity, insights and creativity and where participants leave feeling nourished, inspired and transformed by the process.

Using Mindfulness to Foster Belonging

Join us in exploring how mindfulness can be used to foster a more connecting, inclusive and equitable workplace. Through a series of guided meditation and hands-on activities, this workshop will offer a safe space for participants to discover the root cause for “othering” and to see why this conditioning is so pervasive and hard to break. By investigating how the mind works, participants will witness how limiting beliefs are formed and how easy it can be to shift the view from differences being a problem to one where differences are a source of richness and strength.

From Scarcity to abundance

Where we place our attention affects our sense of reality! In this 2 hour workshop, participants will learn about the brain’s negativity bias and how to shift towards positivity to reconnect to abundance. The following themes will be explored:

·  increasing emotional resiliency during times of stress to avoid burn out

·  setting connecting boundaries to be of service without self-sacrifice

·  asking and receiving support from the larger work community

Part 1: Being with what is happening

This session will explore meditation as a safe place to deeply listen, witness and be with all experiences. Participants will practice techniques to break free from unhelpful thought patterns and to meet difficult emotions with more compassion and care.

Part 2: Restoring a more balanced view

One of the mind’s survival strategies is being able to quickly detect threats or problems. While this can be helpful in keeping us safe, it can also perpetuate a chronic state of stress and anxiety. In this session, participants will learn how to use heart practices such as gratitude, compassion, love, and generosity to restore a more balanced perspective on reality.

A Mindful Approach to Stress

Join us in this 90 minute workshop to learn more about the science of stress and how to use mindfulness as a tool to reduce its grip on your day to day. In this session, participants will: 

• learn how to discern between healthy and toxic stress

• understand the physical mechanism of stress and how this can lead to disease

• investigate what causes stress and how to create more supportive conditions to keep it from arising

• practice how to be with and attend to stress more mindfully when it does arise

• explore different meditation techniques to reduce anxiety and overwhelm

Meeting Challenging Emotions Mindfully

Join us in this 90 minute workshop to deepen your understanding of the importance of having challenging emotions and how they ultimately serve our well being. Come learn about the science behind emotions and how to use mindfulness to build your capacity for being with difficult feelings. In this session, we will: 

• become aware of the rich variety of emotions that make up experience

• understand the mechanism of how feelings arise and the effects that they have on the body and mind

• learn about the true value of challenging emotions and what we miss out on when we avoid them 

• experiment with different meditation techniques to offer supportive conditions to stay long enough in difficult emotions to discover the root need that is calling for attention

Creating Conditions for Connecting Conversations

This 2 hour workshop will focus on creating the conditions for increasing connection and understanding in conversations to foster a stronger sense of collaboration and trust within the work place.

Mindful Communication

(4-8 week Series)

Increase collaboration and creativity amongst your team by offering them a fun professional development! This 4 - 8 weeks series will use interactive exercises to apply the principles of both Mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication to explore the following themes: having attuned conversations, listening with empathy, asking for what you want, and communicating effectively during conflicts.

Bringing Mindfulness into making decisions

This 3 part series will use mindfulness to investigate how to approach decisions, where to place attention during the deciding process and how to create the conditions for effective problem solving.

Wise Use of Mind

(6 week series)

Our mind is an incredible feature and has allowed us to be one of the most successful species on this planet. Yet, evolution favors safety over accuracy… which creates an interesting dilemma for us: should the mind alone be the one calling the shots? What if we were asking it to do a job that is beyond its capacity? Have we placed too much emphasis on thinking and fallen out of balance with the other attributes that we have? How can we use the mind effectively and wisely?