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What is it like to Meditate across 24 hours?
What is it like to meditate across 24 hours? Mindful Leader CEO Mo Edjlali is joined by Kim Jones, a member of the Meditate Together community, to discuss their experience at the 2022 24 hour Sit-a-thon that occurred on March 30th. The two of them were the only two people to participate in all 24 sessions, and they both came away with some interesting insights from the experience!
Over 600 participants joined the 2022 24 hour Sit-a-thon sessions and raised funds for UNICEF's fund for Ukra…
Micropractices That Give Me Pause
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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 …
5 Ways to Bring Your Whole Self to Hybrid Working
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…
Scientific Rigor at Scale: Applying the Science of Well-being
Peter Weng at the 2019 Mindful Leadership Summit
April Neuroscience Round-Up for Mindful Leaders
By the Mindful Leader Team
For this month’s Round-Up, we explore ways to combat doomscrolling and burnout, how to get healthier dopamine highs, tricks to enhance your wisdom, and the future of mindfulness intervention science. We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below with links to the full articles.
1. Ukraine Doomscrolling Can Harm Your Cognition As Well As Your Mood – Here’s What to do About it
Doomscrolling – spending excessive amounts of time reading and consuming negativ…
The Ethics of Mindfulness
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By Ted Meissner, Mindful Leader MBSR Instructor
When I first joined a meditative community, they were in the midst of a schism. Past inappropriate behaviors from leadership had recently surfaced, and the group was deeply divided by hurt and different ideas about how to continue. Over time they recovered, but it was a long and winding road to mend the fractures. Those events left a mark on everyone involved, and I was no exception. Though there were no painful m…
Workplace Mindfulness: What are the actual benefits according to the latest science?
Darren Good and Christopher Lyddy at the At Work 2018
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How to Find Ground Where There is None
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.
In the fall of 2017, New Ventures West founder James Flaherty wrote this invitation.
"As I write, another category five hurricane is bearing down upon the Caribbean, President Donald Trump has just threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea, the U…
Why is a Mindful Workplace Essential to Thrive in the New Era?
By Peter Calin, Mindful Leader MBSR Instructor
The level of stress we’ve experienced in the past two years has increased significantly due to an environment full of uncertainty created by the pandemic, climate change, social unrest, inclusivity and diversity issues, a heightened awareness or concern for work-life balance, and a myriad of other factors. As a result, the workplace is a fast-paced and stressful environment. How do leaders now lead their organizations in a global market that has c…
From McMindfulness to Integral Social Mindfulness: Taking a Stand for Both Personal and Social Transformation
David Forbes at the 2019 Mindful Leadership Summit.