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Embodied Leadership

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How can leaders in our fast-paced and complex work environments produce new outcomes that are aligned with our values and create cohesive teams, even under pressure?

Explore the possibilities that embodied leadership and somatic practices can open for leaders and teams at companies like EnPro Industries in this session featuring Richard Strozzi - Heckler and Marvin Riley. 

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Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D. is founder and Co-director of Methodology at Strozzi I…

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Taking a Tough Look in the Mirror

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By Dr. Karlyn Borysenko, guest contributor

There's not a leader out there who would tell you their goal is to create less productive employees, and yet data shows us that is precisely what many of them end up doing. About two-thirds of employees in the United States and Canada self-report that they are unengaged at work, 79% of employees do not see professional growth opportunities in their current organization, and 79% of employees who quit their job credit a "lack of appreciation" as their re…

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Seven Steps To Mindful Leadership

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By Fleet Maull, PhD, CMT-P, guest contributor

No matter what type of leadership role you are in, you need to be able to connect with others while also staying connected with yourself, so that you can be a driving force for positivity.

Mindful leadership is an approach and set of skills and practices that can be developed and mastered in order to effectively lead, manage, and influence in today’s world, ensuring that you optimize your abilities as a leader within a business, a non-profit organi…

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Why Choose Stress?

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By John J. Murphy, guest contributor

You are a business leader about to give a keynote address. You are a student about to take an exam. You are a job seeker about to go into an interview. You are a basketball player about to shoot a game winning free throw. You are a mother caring for a sick child or elderly parent. How do you feel? Poised and confident? Relaxed and at ease? Or, nervous, anxious and stressed?

It doesn’t matter which scenario you find yourself in. We all face challenges in lif…

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Cultivating Racial Awareness

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Racism remains one of the most rooted and painful impasses of our time. In this session featuring Ruth King, we explore how mindful awareness supports racial wellbeing and leadership transformation.

With the Racial Awareness Rubik™ — an understanding of our individual and collective racial conditioning and their systemic proliferation. 

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Ruth King is an international teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition and founder of Mindful Members Insight Meditat…

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Pushing Into Fear with Devotion & Purpose

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Happy New Year!

We want to kick 2019 off with this insightful session with Leo Babauta, creator of Zen Habits, on pushing past discomfort and fear when setting new habits and goals.

He talks about how developing a system of control in our life can help us confront our fears and overcome them. Opening up our minds lends a hand in helping us push our discomforts to the side so that we can reach the reward of conquering them.

Leo leaves this session with a 30-day challenge to notice your discomforts a…

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The Four Insights of Gift Ecology

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With the spirit of the holidays, what better than a talk about spreading love and generosity.

In this session, Nipun Mehta, founder of Service Space, shares the four insights of Gift Ecology, how anyone can be a great giver, and how giving connects us. He beautifully illustrates how generosity is the bridge to kindness and connectivity to not just everyone but everything. 

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Nipun Mehta is the founder of ServiceSpace, an incubator of projects that works at …

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Mindfulness for Emerging Adults

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Tis the season for connecting with loved ones including our young adults as they head home for the holidays. We thought this would be a great time to share this session with Yael Shy, the founder of the MindfulNYU, who helps bring the practice of mindfulness to those emerging into adulthood.

She shares her story on how she learned to help young adults shift their thinking about traditional mindfulness and meditation to simply learning how to take on the world from a heart-center place.

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A Beautiful Offering

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As the holiday season arrives, we wanted to share with you this inspiring, heartfelt talk from Vinny Ferraro a nationally recognized meditation leader for at-risk-youth. In this talk, Vinny encourages us to give love, be kind, and to love yourself no matter where you are at in life. 

He reminds us to not get caught up in appearances, to always go back, basics to and remember why we are here. To see the beauty in our desire to help and to not be afraid to connect with others. 

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Like the Wild Geese

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By Wendy Saunders, guest contributor

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
–Excerpt of “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

It can feel rather lonely sometimes when leading mindfulness programs or endeavoring to gather the support needed to start, sustain, or expand these programs in the workplace. This has been my experience at points during the …

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