Tools & Insights

By Michael Doyle 

Our careers provide us the opportunity to contribute to society, help us support ourselves and our families, and give us a sense of purpose of fulfillment. But for a great many people, the gap between this ideal scenario and their day-to-day seems to only get wider, as their working lives become more and more stressful and frustrating.

The benefits of bringing mindfulness into the workplace are well-documented, and yet it can be challenging to win over reluctant...

By Mo Edjlali 

I've recently have had a great many questions spurred on by some of the critics of what is happening with Mindfulness. My conversations with folks like Professor Ron Purser, Professor Candy Brown, Assistant Professor Jaime Kucinskas, Professor David Forbes, and independent scholar Glenn Wallis have me thirsty for more intellectual debate. When it comes to mindfulness & meditation where can we find good debate and discussion? Have we created a tone that welcomes...

This Week's TOP 10

• Canada’s Bianca Andreescu says meditation, visualization formed winning mindset
  Global News
• Tempe school’s ‘mindfulness room’ helps students with stress, anxiety
  KTAR News 92.3
  
• How Your Breath Controls Your Mood and Attention
  Mindful
• 'I'll have a free mind.' Students learn through meditation at Richmond County middle school
  News 12 NBC 26
• Mindfulness: Seven Principles Of Wise Leaders
  Forbes
  
• Former Google HR Chief Laszlo Bock Aims To Revolutionize People...

By Marc Lesser

Company Time is a series of one-day and weekend retreats that I have been co-leading at Zen Center’s Green Gulch Farm for the past 20 years. These retreats are for people interested in integrating mindfulness practice into their work, for those looking for ways to make their work more meaningful and more connected to their deepest values, and/or for those considering some kind of career or life change. 

In these retreats, our role as teachers is to ask questions and...

By Regina Smith

I am a black woman in my mid-forties and a senior executive at a small progressive predominantly white organization. I have approximately 10 direct reports, and I report to the president. Of the people who report to me, two are people of color (male-identified), and none of the other executives who report to the president are people of color.  Even at a liberal and progressively-minded spiritually-based organization, the air we breathe is still the air of dominant...

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• Still stressed after a long break? You might not be taking the right type of rest'
  Fast Company
• Time for new thinking about mindfulness and social change
  Open Democracy 
  
• Mindfulness Can Help Middle Managers Avoid Burnout, Study Says
  Asian Scientist
• MIT Studies Reveal Practicing 'Mindfulness' Can Be Beneficial to a Student's Performance
  Interesting Engineering
• The former monk who runs a $100m meditation firm
  BBC News
  
• How To Change Your Life With Breathing
  Forbes
• Stop Telling...

In this session, Peter Bostelmann provides an overview to how the company SAP has successfully implemented a Global Mindfulness Practice inside their organization. Currently, there are 6,500+ SAP employees who have completed the 2 day ‘Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute’ mindfulness training program (since 2012), with a growing waitlist of 5,500+ employees excited to attend the training. He provides insights and guidelines for organizational initiatives to deliver mindfulness...

By Janice Marturano 

Is it September? What happened to the summer?

Stop for a minute. Do you ever feel this way? How could it already be September? It feels like it was just May.

Or do you ever look at the time and wonder, how could it be 6 pm? I’m exhausted, but I’m not sure what I accomplished today. My “to-do” list seems just as long, maybe longer, than it was this morning.

This certainly was often true for me. As a senior executive, my days were always filled...

By James Van Auken

People constantly wrestle with themselves. An impulse, a habit, an expectation—juxtaposed by a limitation, governance, or imposed denial of desire—all create disorienting dilemmas that can drive behavior and diminish mental resources. And in this internal wrestling contest of impulse, desire, and habit on one team and moral reasoning, responsibility, and “doing the right thing” on the other, a cyclical battle pervades.

In our contemporary society, we...

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• Mommy burnout: Psychologists say women need 'momcations'
  Fox5NY
• ‘I am the work’: Mindfulness rooms launching in 3 Richmond Public Schools
  ABC 8 News - WRIC
• Congressman Tim Ryan Wants to Heal America’s Trauma with Mindfulness
  Lion's Roar
• How to Recognize Burnout in Your Company
  Forbes
• Why constant complaining is bad for health and how to stop doing it with mindfulness
  Today
  
• Forget adult colouring books — Zentangle is the new way to relieve stress and...

This Week's TOP 10

• Meditation and yoga practice linked to reduced volume in brain region tied to negative emotions
  PsyPost
• Local school supports students' mental health with new 'mindfulness room'
  Channel 3000
• Turn Strangers Into Friends With 8 Great Questions From Harvard
  Forbes
• Is modern mindfulness a corporate scam? This management professor thinks so
  Fast Company
• Psilocybin-assisted mindfulness meditation linked to brain connectivity changes and persisting positive effects
  PsyPost
• How to...