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Hello Mindful Leaders, How can "good change" be implemented in your organization? What does the latest Neuroscience have to say about the relationship between grit and executive function, how mindfulness may make you less guilty, and how travel boosts mental health? How can cultivating our own inner peace lead us to create greater world peace? 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 c… |
How Mindfulness Creates a Thriving Positive Organization: The 3 Key Psychological Factors to Success
With increased global volatility, companies rely on a strong positive organizational culture and a resilient workforce to thrive. Learn how to use the science of Positive Psychology to build your team's creative, social, mental and emotional capital. And discover how mindfulness practices can drive the psychological factors which lead to success.
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In What Ways Can Mindfulness Help Create a More Peaceful World?
By Brian Pappas, guest contributor
From the nightly news to the neighborhood barbeque, conflict and disagreement are all around us. A quick survey of the day’s news details the ongoing war in Ukraine and continued strife over immigration, gun control, abortion, the 2020 election, and COVID. Our national unity has been declining for nearly three decades. It seems anything can and does become contested and politicized -- even professional golf is now embroiled in conflict.
As a mediator and a …
July Neuroscience Round-Up for Mindful Leaders
by the Mindful Leader Team
For this month’s Round-Up, we explore the link between executive function and grit, how meditation can reduce guilt and diminish prosocial reparation behavior, the benefits of travel for dementia and other mental health conditions, the relationship among MBIs, depression, and cancer survival, and the impact of hindrance stressors on emotional exhaustion in healthcare workers. We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below with links to the full articles.
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The Many Ways to Fight
by Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, guest contributor
“I think being a poet is fighting. I think gardening is fighting. Feeding people is fighting. Being a street medic is fighting. Creating beauty and art is fighting. Teaching people to feel despair and not collapse is fighting. A sustainable revolution needs raised fists in the streets, and it needs so much more than that.” —Jessica Phillips, NVW Enrollment Director
A few days ago my friend Kirsten drove me to a medical appointment. While in…
3 Ways to Shift from Bullying Employees to Leading with Empathy
By Jay Forte, guest contributor
You have likely heard, “people quit people before they quit companies.” Employees want to work for managers and leaders who respect, value, and support them, not for those who bully and bark at them. So, if this is true, why are so many of today’s leaders and managers bullying and barking?
One word: stress.
Our bodies and minds were built to handle short-term bouts of stress. In those moments, our reactive, or limbic, brain rushes in, helping us to identify an…
7 Keys to Resolve Conflict Consciously
As individual leaders and their teams become more mindful, communication and conflict are still issues in relationships and organizations. Discover a mindful approach to communication and conflict, including a very practical tool called The Clearing Model that hundreds of teams are using to practice conscious communication and conflict resolution.
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Kaizen: How to Create a Culture of Innovation and Fearlessness
By John J. Murphy, guest contributor
In 2013 I wrote a book titled, Zentrepreneur: Get Out of the Way and Lead; Create A Culture of Innovation and Fearlessness. Originally, the book was intended to help aspiring leaders and entrepreneurs “do good” for the world. In other words, turn “healthy, positive thinking” (Zen) into constructive actions and results (Entrepreneurship).
You can probably tell by the title that this is not one of your more typical leadership books. Who writes about Zen in th…
Mindful Attention: 5 Ways to Create Focus & Manage Distractions
by Brian Lowell French, guest contributor
Leaders are consistently challenged by all of the distractions faced through the day, taking focus away from leading the team and managing the important work. These distractions cause leaders to become scattered, making it difficult to be mindful and intentional as they lead their teams.
When I wrote my recently published book, Harmonic Leadership – Leading with Inclusive, Mindful Caring, the intent was to provide leaders with practical and pragmatic …
How ‘free’ is our free time?
By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, guest contributor
Recently, as part of an organizational retreat—one that was centered on asking questions and being in a space of unknown, of emergence, of creation—we were invited to engage in a 24-hour media fast: no articles, books, TV, podcasts, social media. Essentially cleansing our minds and bodies of the incessant bombardment of other people’s words.
When the invitation was first issued I felt myself go white with terror. My panicked mind started pr…