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The Space We Need to Grow
By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, guest contributor
When folks are considering Integral Coach training, they often bring very reasonable questions like:
- Can I leave early on the last day?
- Can I duck out for an hour to join a work meeting?
- Can I miss a day of Session Three to attend a socially distant wedding/company event/graduation?
These are all perfectly understandable scenarios, which is why it can be surprising to learn that our answer to each of these questions is “no.” We r…
Top 5 Mistakes People Make Guiding Meditation
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By Mo Edjlali, Mindful Leader Chief Community Organizer
Through our work, I’ve had the privilege to get to know a great many meditation teachers and facilitators. This includes from my own personal practice and mindfulness training, those who have spoken at our events, our adjunct MBSR certified instructors, and the 120+ Workplace Mindfulness Facilitators that we have certified. Of this group of teachers and facilitators, there are those who are world re…
The 3 Rs of the New Workplace: Responsive, Resilient, Ready
By Jay Forte, guest contributor
For many organizations, how they do business and how work is done has completely changed. Though many organizations feel compelled to return to the way things were before COVID-19, this isn’t possible. Many of the things that previously filled our days have been replaced with things we either never thought possible or thought we would get to someday, like workplaces with fully remote employees, touchless contact, effective video sales calls, home delivery of near…
Deconstructing Unconscious Bias Using Neuroscience & Mindfulness
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Due Quach at the 2018 Mindful Leadership Summit. See how neural mechanisms underlie unconscious bias and learn how to provide a framework for mindful and compassionate observation. Discover how to deconstruct your biases, and how to activate neural pathways that enable you to more effectively engage with people whose perspectives may be very different from your own.
How to Use R.O.A.M. Practice to Manage Emotions at Work
By Patrick Briody, guest contributor
If only I didn’t have this horrible feeling in my gut every time I think of updating the committee on this project. Why am I such a wimp?
Whether you’ve had exactly that thought or not, managing our emotions in professional life can be a significant source of difficulty. For some leaders, unregulated emotions are the main limitation on their upward trajectory.
The bad news is, of course, that eliminating difficult emotions is probably not going to happen…
Got Back to Work Stress? Try this Practice
By John J. Murphy, guest contributor
You turn on the daily news and hear about more businesses slowly reopening. You wonder when you will be going back to work. And then you wonder if you will be going back to work. After all, a lot of people are getting permanently furloughed these days. Or, maybe you are already back to work and you wonder how you will lead your team with poise and confidence when a lot of people are anxious and afraid, just like you. How can a fearful leader inspire anyone?…
Using Meditation to Explore Privilege and Anti-Racism
By Steven Cohen, guest contributor
Like many Americans, I have spent a great deal of time recently engaging with work colleagues, family, and friends in conversations regarding race and racial inequality. Doing a lot of listening. Doing a lot of reading about systemic racial injustice and potential remedies. I know that I have a lot more to learn. I have started to acknowledge my white privilege and the advantages that has afforded me. I have meditated.
As meditators, we learn to observe with fu…
Mindfulness and Transformative Education: Contemplative Teaching and Learning for Social Justice
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Rhonda Magee discusses mindfulness and transformative education and how to bridge contemplative teaching for learning social justice at @Work 2019. She shares how great social justice is possible when people have the tools of transformative and contemplate education, as methods to look within, challenge assumptions, examine the way people participate and shape the world and in having the reflexive space and creating community, to create change. When looki…
Quantum Mechanics and How We Shape Each Other
By Mo Edjlali, Mindful Leader Chief Community Organizer
Recently, we were invited to help share the premiere of a film - Infinite Potential, the story of David Bohm. It's a fascinating film, available free on YouTube here. It explores the life and work of physicist David Bohm, who Einstein called his spiritual son and the Dalia Lama his science guru. The film explores quantum mechanics and one experiment, in particular, continues to intrigue me - the double slit. Essentially, when you observe t…
The Necessity and Challenge of Being “Onto Ourselves”
By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, guest contributor
A couple of weeks ago I participated in the certification process for a cohort of students finishing the Professional Coaching Course. A phrase I heard used in celebration again and again was, “you are onto yourself.” It’s a concept that comes up a lot in Integral Coaching, as it is one of the biggest indicators of deepening development.
What does it mean to be onto ourselves?
Most fundamentally, it means just what it sounds like: seeing …