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By John J. Murphy, Guest Contributor

“What are you feeling right now?” asked the executive coach. “Good,” responded Bob without a second thought. “Hmmm,” the coach pondered. Then she reminded Bob of what he had been learning about emotional self-awareness and added, “Bob, tell me what you are feeling – the emotion - because good is not a feeling.”

How often have we been asked how we are feeling or doing, and we replied in this way?  A friend asks how we are doing, and we say mindlessly, “Fine,…

How Can Mindfulness Workplace Programs Avoid Legal & Ethical Challenges?

Professor Candy Guenther Brown, PhD at the 2019 At Work Summit.

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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. 

“To be purposeful is not to be goal oriented, but to seek to reconnect to the source of one's life.”

― Michael Meade 

The organic nature of growth

In a recent video, New Ventures West faculty member Adam Klein draws a distinction between self-im…

As a pioneer in workplace mindfulness, we're always looking for new perspectives on our field. So, when we came across Work Pray Code by Carolyn Chen which was published last month, we decided to do a series of articles exploring this work with you. Our hopes are to encourage conversation and critical thinking. This excerpt is the second article in our Work Pray Code series. Check out the first article in the series here!

By Carolyn Chen

[Various consultants] and coaches teach Buddhist meditat…

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 The Mindful Leader Team

As a pioneer in workplace mindfulness, we're always looking for new perspectives on our field. So, when we came across Work Pray Code by Carolyn Chen which was published last month, we decided to do a series of articles exploring this work with you. Our hopes are to encourage conversation and critical thinking. This review is the first article in our Work Pray Code series. Check out the second article in the series here!

What Happens When Work is the Place Where Amer…

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By Mary Beth Stern, Mindful Leader MBSR Instructor

One of the important tenets of a mindfulness program is not only to teach the experiential practice of formal meditation, but to impart practical tools for incorporating awareness into the unfolding of everyday life. In MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), these two pillars of practice are what distinguish mindfulness, not as a means to an end or a technique for achieving a desired outcome, but as a way of …

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