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Anil Seth, Ph.D. at the 2019 Mindful Leadership Summit. Explore how neuroscience, AI, and philosophy are shaping a powerful new view of perception and self-awareness. Understand the implications of this perspective on consciousness for medicine, technology, and the role of humans in the natural world.

By John J. Murphy

Let’s face it. 2020 was an unprecedented year of disruption, challenge, and stress. We have all felt it one way or another – and so have the people we work with. Take a moment right now to reflect on this. Contemplate it without judgment. Let go of analysis and how you think things should or should not be. Just feel it. Empathize with the suffering surrounding you. Listen to your intuition and let your heart speak to you. What is it saying?

This is just one technique I use to…

Apparently, You're Never Really Living in the Present — A Neuroscientist Explains
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5 Things You Should Do First Thing In The Morning To Be Happier All Day
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Employers, Here Are 4 Ways You Can Begin To Effectively Tackle Employee Burnout
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These 5 steps can help protect you from burnout
Fast Company
Netflix's New Headspace Series Explains Why We Can't Hack Sleep (and Why Eight Hours Is a Myth)
Esquire
Why we may be measuring burnout all wrong
BBC
The 2 emotional states that ca…

NOTE: Diana Winston will be hosting a Mindful Leader Expert Workshop, Refine and Expand your Meditation Practice: Practicing Mindfulness Across the Spectrum of Awareness, on June 4th. Click here to learn more. 

By Diana Winston

Awareness is a capacity of the human mind. Awareness is the ability to directly know and to perceive, sense, feel, or be cognizant of experience. We might think of awareness simply as the state of being conscious of something.

Every living being is aware. We usually do…

This is your brain on Zoom
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What Psychological Safety Looks Like in a Hybrid Workplace
Harvard Business Review
The Fine Art Of Failing
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What Is Guided Meditation? Here Are the Benefits and How to Get Started
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Happiness Is Good For Business: 6 Ways To Create It For Employees
Forbes
The Key To Being A Great Virtual Leader Is Empathy
Forbes
10 Types of Meditation: What to Know About Each One and How to Get Started
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Coping with COVID: Mindfulness and Self-Care
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By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West

Zoomed Out

Yes, we are all “Zoomed out.” As connected as this wonderful platform has allowed us to remain over the past year of anxiety, separation, and loss, it carries with it a certain fatigue. For one thing, we are usually sitting down, hemmed in by a rectangle, perceiving ourselves, our colleagues, and our loved ones as only head and shoulders. For many it has become numbing, and we’re ready to be together again if only to remember we are human.

As much…

Dr. Elisha Goldstein discusses ways people can overcome anxiety and overwhelm in their professional and personal lives. He suggests using a four-part inquiry process to determine and clarify intentions and goals. For people who want to get into a regular practice of mindful meditation, Elisha shares a 3 part process of Forgive, Investigate, and Invite, to build a regular meditation practice. He explains how individuals need to pay attention to where their focus and energy are going, in orde…

By Clif Smith

It’s clear to anyone who has picked up a magazine or newspaper or has perused any social media feed in the last 5 years that mindfulness is hot right now, and I must admit, it is one of the reasons why I got the deal to write this book [which launches April 20th]. Just searching the term “mindfulness” on Google yields 264 million results! Unfortunately, many of the items the search results point to aren’t actually mindfulness related practices. Many results are the outcome of savv…

Why Self-Leadership Is The Most Important Leadership
Forbes
6 Easy Ways Into Mindfulness That Aren’t Meditation
Lifehacker
Mindfulness can make you selfish, A pioneering new study examines the social effects of mindfulness
Science Daily
How to avoid burnout in the workplace
People Management
Combating Manager Burnout
HR News
4 Breathwork Exercises That Experts Say Ease Stress & Anxiety
The Zoe Report
Follow These Mindfulness Accounts For Your Daily Dose Of Well-Being & Positivity
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4 Ways Sharon Sal…

NOTE: Beth Mulligan will be leading a Mindful Leader 5-day, live and online retreat, starting on June 22nd. Click here to learn more.

By Beth Mulligan

One year ago, I committed to teach one of several annual silent retreats, in South Florida, where I have led retreats and teacher trainings before. The dates were April 6th-11th, 2020. In March 2020, like all of you we began to really absorb the reality and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. At this point--like many of you, we’d switched our first…