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Permission to Feel: How to Unlock the Power of Emotions

4 Ways ChatGPT Might Help With Mindfulness Facilitation
By Mo Edjlali, Mindful Leader Founder and CEO
I’ve been a bit obsessed with ChatGPT. It’s incredible. We all have heard about AI in the abstract, but this thing is live and you can use it now. At our last CWMF alumni event and in our CWMF course I’ve been talking about the potential impact of AI for the last three years and am thrilled with the advances and usefulness of ChatGPT. It's like having a super smart friend at your fingertips ready to help with almost anything. I have found it to b…
The Power of Love & Connection in a World of Noise & Fear

January Top 5 LinkedIn Recap
By The Mindful Leader Team
As we began the new year, with our shiny resolutions and predictions for 2023, we had the opportunity to read some truly insightful articles and share them with this community. And the community spoke—as we approach the end of the month, we want to share some of the most popular articles from the past three weeks with you. We based our picks on our LinkedIn engagement, which includes reactions, shares, clicks, and comments. If you want to join us on LinkedIn, click he…
January Neuroscience Round-Up for Mindful Leaders
By The Mindful Leader Team
This month, we look at what the science tells us about maximizing mindfulness in the workplace, the role of exercise and mindfulness in the cognition of older adults, and how psilocybin might increase trait mindfulness. Then, we’ll dive into the psychology of our love for villains and how blocking our automatic imitation behaviors can actually increase empathy and understanding of others. We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below with links to the full…
Law & Ethics Concerning Religion in Workplace Mindfulness Programs

Workplace Mindfulness & Gartner’s Top 2 2023 HR Trends
By The Mindful Leader Team
As we’re preparing for 2023 at Mindful Leader we’re trying to take a look at trends across HR, business, mindfulness, and mental health. In this article, we’ll take a look at the top two trends in a white paper put out by Gartner, 5 HR Trends and Priorities for 2023, and explore how these trends may affect our work.
“This annual report is derived from the Gartner HR Priorities Survey, which polls chief human resources officers (CHROs) and HR leaders on common challen…
3 Simple Ways to Create More Tech-Life Balance Today
By Meico Marquette Whitlock, the Mindful Techie, guest contributor
The pandemic has disrupted your life and blurred the lines between working at home and living at work. Your job role may have shifted as we grapple collectively with how to provide essential services with little to no human contact. The volume of emails, texts, tweets, and meetings has increased exponentially. And you’re emotionally spent from all the change, disruption, and uncertainty.
If you wish things could magically go b…
Most Popular Articles of 2022
By The Mindful Leader Team
It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of 2022. Here at Mindful Leader, we are both surprised by how quickly this year has come to an end, but also happy to see the beginning of a new year.
While we are looking back at 2022, we wanted to reshare the most popular articles we shared on social media. We based our picks on our LinkedIn engagement, which includes reactions, shares, clicks, and comments. If you want to join us on LinkedIn, click here. For each article, …
Our Craving Minds: Why We Get Hooked and How Mindfulness Helps Us Break Bad Habits

Judson Brewer at the 2018 At Work Summit
Judson Brewer presents the role of mindfulness in treating addiction from a research and neuroscience perspective. He identified a missing gap in the field of psychiatric research and foresaw the opportunity to procure research on the effects of mindfulness on reducing addictive behavior. According to the research, mindfulness practices produced outcomes up to 5x more effective than traditional approaches to res…






