Discovery

By Raj Sisodia & Michael Gelb

What if there was a company whose CEO said, "Let's pay our people as much as possible"? What if that same company showed up to help communities in distress before FEMA and the Red Cross when there was a disaster? What if your company treated your spouse, your children, your parents, and even your pets, as stakeholders, and made it a priority to ensure that you can be present for them? What if there was a company that not only reduced its environmental footprint to …

By Dan Nixon, guest contributor

Between the busyness of our work lives and shifts towards flexible and hybrid working patterns, the ability to remain grounded, and to be fully present, becomes ever more challenging. Add to this the bottomless newsfeeds on our phones and the blurring of home/work boundaries, and it can easily feel as though our lives become a series of “to-do list” tasks and back-to-back meetings, with any spaces in between quickly filled with emails and other updates.

All of t…

Peter Weng at the 2019 Mindful Leadership Summit

By the Mindful Leader Team

For this month’s Round-Up, we explore ways to combat doomscrolling and burnout, how to get healthier dopamine highs, tricks to enhance your wisdom, and the future of mindfulness intervention science. We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below with links to the full articles.

1. Ukraine Doomscrolling Can Harm Your Cognition As Well As Your Mood – Here’s What to do About it

Doomscrolling – spending excessive amounts of time reading and consuming negativ…

 

Darren Good and Christopher Lyddy at the At Work 2018 

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By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, guest contributor 

This article has several questions for reflection in blue italics. In these places, you’re invited to pause, feel into your response, and perhaps explore a bit with some notes or journaling. 

In the fall of 2017, New Ventures West founder James Flaherty wrote this invitation.

"As I write, another category five hurricane is bearing down upon the Caribbean, President Donald Trump has just threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea, the U…

By Peter Calin, Mindful Leader MBSR Instructor

The level of stress we’ve experienced in the past two years has increased significantly due to an environment full of uncertainty created by the pandemic, climate change, social unrest, inclusivity and diversity issues, a heightened awareness or concern for work-life balance, and a myriad of other factors.  As a result, the workplace is a fast-paced and stressful environment. How do leaders now lead their organizations in a global market that has c…

David Forbes at the 2019 Mindful Leadership Summit.

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Raj Sisodia at the 2018 At Work Summit.