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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…

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 …

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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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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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 …

Shared Resources and Tools

• How to Read Nature, book by Tristan Gooley

• Mindful Magazine

• Center for Mindfulness, UMass

• Hotline to Peace: 360-385-2200 x2238

• eNaropa: Mindful at Work, 8-week online course (also free 7-day course)

• Mindfulness-Based Emotional Intelligence Facilitator’s Guide

• Becoming a Resonant Leader, book by McKee, Boyatzis, Johnston

• The Mind of the Leader, book by Hougaard and Carter

• Awakening Compassion at Work, book by Worline and D…

Summary Report 

This document captures key questions and insights that arose during a weekend deep dive retreat hosted by Mindful Leader and the Garrison Institute in August 2018. The participants were all internal champions of mindfulness within medium to large organizations (100+ employees). Our objective was to provide a forum where these peers could share best practices and lessons learned, bond, and find meaningful ways to support the continued growth of mindfulness in America.

Being an i…

By Wendy Quan, guest contributor 

Organizations struggle with constant change. Or, rather, it’s the employees who struggle with the relentless changes that disrupts their lives and mounts their stress. The problem is there is never enough change management resource to truly help our employees.

The responsibility of helping people through change, or ‘change management’ tends to fall upon leaders, change managers, project managers or human resources. However, generally whatever little time there…

By Schuyler Brown, guest contributor

One morning in 2015, I opened my Sunday New York Times to find a profile of Mark Bertolini, the CEO of healthcare giant Aetna, on the front page of the Business Section. The story was not a typical business story, but rather a vulnerable and personal portrait: the story of a corporate leader’s personal journey into meditation and his vision to bring the practice into his workplace.

Bertolini hired Andy Lee to do the real work of building a company culture w…

By Patricia Thompson, guest contributor

When I began my career as a management consultant, I was reluctant to be authentic. As a Black female who had just finished grad school, I was all too aware of potential negative stereotypes that others might have about me based on my age, gender, and race. As a result, I made it my mission to come across as pulled together, polished, and serious at all times.

To prevent any concerns about how knowledgeable I was, I led with my intelligence. At the same …