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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…
September Monthly Newsletter
FINAL DAYS TO REGISTER: 7th Mindful Leader Summit, October 6-9, 2022
Hello Mindful Leaders, What are five practices that we can use to center ourselves before engaging with the issues and people that trouble us? What does the latest neuroscience have to say about Vagus Nerve stimulation, Restoration Skills Training, and transcendent experiences in virtual reality? How will Mindful, Authentic Leadership serve you when you are called to lead? Curious what articles stood out over the … |
4 Tips on how to get buy-in to fund your mindfulness program
By Holly Duckworth, CWMF Alumnus
You have a vision, creating a successful mindfulness program! Sadly, other key influencers do not see it. Now what? No matter if you are a vendor to companies or an internal champion for mindfulness, we have one unexpected thing in common. Sales. Yes, you read that correctly. We both must sell the return on mindfulness to get buy-in and funding. Did you know, according to Fitt Insider, the business of mindfulness is fast becoming a pillar of the $4.5T wellness…
Becoming a Mindful Leader
The ongoing problems in business leadership have underscored the need for a new kind of leader in the twenty-first century: the Mindful Leader. Author Bill George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, will explore why mindfulness is essential to your performance as a leader, why organizations are focusing on developing authentic leadership, and how you can become a more mindful leader.
Bill George is a Senior…
How can inner work help with climate action?
By Jamie Bristow, guest contributor
We know that climate change affects mental health – but we’re just beginning to grasp the role of the mind in the crisis itself. A new report outlines the crucial relationship between climate breakdown and the human inner world, and explores capacities of mind and heart as a foundation for more effective action.
Feeling the Effects of Climate Change
Climate change is no longer an abstract, future problem – its effects are felt by all of us. Almost every cou…
September Neuroscience Roundup for Mindful Leaders
by The Mindful Leader Team
For this month’s Round-Up, we dive into the science behind TikTok’s #vagusnerve obsession and explore how VR can help us achieve a psychedelic-like trip. We also look at transformative experiences at secular mass gatherings, the newly proposed psychological diagnosis of “maladaptive daydreaming”, and why restoration skills training (ReST) might be a better option than conventional mindfulness training (CMT). We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below w…