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Why Gratitude is So Important to Success
By John J. Murphy, Guest Contributor
Every holiday has meaning. These mindful moments offer us the opportunity to step back, reflect, and honor an important time or pivotal point in history. In my mind, Thanksgiving is one of the most important holidays of all – for one simple reason. Gratitude elevates consciousness. When we are in a state of thanksgiving, we are temporarily letting go of anxiety, stress, criticism, and judgmental feelings about what is wrong in the world, and we are recognizi…
October Monthly Newsletter
Hello Mindful Leaders, How can leaders unite people and inspire them to work together for common good? What does the latest neuroscience have to say about mental exhaustion, the value of listening to silence, and the phenomenon of lucid dreaming? How can we address clinician burnout and promote healthy work environments? Curious what articles stood out over the last 30 days? Having a hard time keeping up with our content-packed weekly newsletters? We've got you covered. Enjoy, and if y… |
How the Human Brain Can Derail or Bolster DEI
By Due Quach, Guest Contributor
Companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives since the establishment of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1964, yet these efforts have been frequently met with resistance or inertia internally. The continued under-representation of women and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in senior management and board positions has led to widespread cynicism. Critics often ques…
Mindfulness @UVA School of Nursing: Compassionate Care Initiative
Self-unification in a divided world
By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, Guest Contributor
“In order to truly change, we have to let go of who we think we are. Early in life we had to form the ego, or the ‘little self,’ in order to protect our true self. Later in life, the way we originally protected ourselves begins to endanger the presence of our Self. What protected us from harm at the beginning will cause us great harm later in life if we don’t learn how to let go of it.“
—Michael Meade, from “The Captive Heart” (Episode 2…
October Neuroscience Round-Up for Mindful Leaders
By The Mindful Leader Team
For this month’s Round-Up, we look at the science behind mental exhaustion, what we can learn from the brains of seniors, the value of listening to silence, the relationship between a lost sense of time and mental distress, and finally, the phenomenon of lucid dreaming. We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below with links to the full articles.
Study Explains the Likely Cause of Mental Exhaustion
Why does mental labor make you feel as tired as physi…
Can Mindfulness Reboot Privilege? Contemplating Earned and Unearned Advantage
By Chris Altizer and Gloria Johnson-Cusack, Guest Contributors
In a time of increasing polarization and even legislation targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work, programs designed to increase diversity, inclusion, and equity are being castigated as divisive, exclusive, and unequal.
How did we get here? How do we move ahead?
In the standard curricula, few things are as hot as the concept of privilege. Those with it are at best uncomfortable if not in denial while those without i…
Deconstructing Unconscious Bias Using Neuroscience & Mindfulness
Due Quach at the 2018 Mindful Leadership Summit.
Due Quach (pronounced ‘Zway Kwok’) is the author of Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment and Joy, one of Fast Company’s best business books of 2018.
Through her social enterprise, Calm Clarity, she uses neuroscience and mindfulness to guide organizations and individuals to address unconscious bias, lead with authenticity, foster genuine inclusion, heal tr…
Pulling Together: 10 Rules for High Performance Teamwork
By John J. Murphy
In 1993 I wrote a book titled, Pulling Together: The Power of Teamwork. The book aimed primarily at helping leaders unite people and inspire them to work together for common good rather than separate and point fingers. It also helped team members see more value in one another and use this insight to boost synergy – the power of teamwork. Today, almost thirty years later, the lessons seem more relevant than ever.
In 2010 Simple Truths, now a publishing brand of Sourcebooks, r…
Learning to stay when all you want to do is run
By Chris Johnson, Guest Contributor
Saturated with Loss
We’ve been saturated with loss... for a long time. While loss is as much a part of our human condition as the deep connections we feel with loved ones, the expanse of loss over the past few years, well, has tried our patience and even our character.
We just hit a stunning one million lives lost to covid: sick patients, nurses and docs, front line health care workers, actors and musicians, public servants too. The loss made all the mor…