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Dr. Kelly E. Knight, Ph.D. & Dr. Colter Ellis, Ph.D. at the 2022 Mindful Leader Summit.

Secondary trauma is an occupational hazard for those employed in trauma-intensive and high-stress occupations. Learn how to recognize and mitigate the effects of secondary trauma by increasing awareness, practicing mindfulness, and building social support. We will showcase a freely available toolkit, discuss our research, and highlight case studies of our work with …

By Mo Edjlali, Mindful Leader Founder and CEO

For those of you who have a close connection to Mindful Leader, you probably know that one of the things that really makes us different is our embracing of critical thought. I grew up with a critical mindset, and joke with folks that if I was a character in the X-Files, I'd be Scully. I’m no Mulder. I’m a skeptic and a critical thinker. As someone who has been involved in this field since 2009, I have witnessed the rise and fall of mindful celebriti…

By The Mindful Leader Team

This month, as we settled into 2023, we had the opportunity to read many thought-provoking articles about leadership and mindfulness in the workplace, and to then share those articles with our 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 jo…

By The Mindful Leader Team

This month, we look at political polarization from a neurological perspective, examine the benefits of breathing exercises for stress reduction, consider the surprising benefits of forgetting (but also tips for how to remember things!), look at how climate crisis trauma negatively impacts cognitive functioning, and lastly, explore how smells are linked to memory and behavior in mice. We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below with links to the full arti…

By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, Guest Contributor

Boundaries

If you are on a developmental path of any kind it’s likely that at some point you’ve had to look at boundaries: saying no to requests, putting a hard stop on the workday, not taking on other peoples’ “stuff.” 

Boundaries are an essential aspect of wellbeing in that they help us delineate where we end and the rest of the world begins, determine what is our business and what is others’, reserve our energy for what is important to …

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…

By John J. Murphy, Guest Contributor

In the book Miracle Minded Manager, I illustrate the concept of “Capital L Love,” a completely different perspective on love than the common ego interpretation. To begin with, capital L Love is unconditional. It is not a feeling we fall in and out of, as the ego understands it, or an attachment to someone or something external to us. Capital L Love is timeless, limitless, and eternal. It is all-encompassing. It is the very essence of life itself. It is a for…

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…