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Mindfulness for Teams

Mindfulness for Teams starts with a 2-hour master class, taught live online - and continues with a comprehensive 90-day roadmap, and the self-paced tools and resources to kick-start an effective mindfulness practice.

The class includes a comprehensive introduction to science-based mindfulness - hands-on experiences with open awareness and meditation - and the most current best practices for improving positivity, engagement, communications and emotional intelligence.

This is a simple, cost-effective way to bring an entire team up-to-speed on mindfulness - with strategies they can apply immediately in the workplace to reduce chronic stress, anxiety, distraction, conflict and burnout - in the process, improving emotional control, relationships, performance and productivity.

Taught by HCI founder Michael Foster

Mike is an author, thought leader, and successful entrepreneur in corporate education and human capital management. He is the founder, former Chairman and CEO of AIRS (the standard certification for talent acquisition skills, worldwide) - and the Human Capital Institute (HCI), the global association for strategic talent management (with over 200,000 senior executive members, in 172 countries).

In 2017, Mike founded Id8TE, with a mission to bring mindfulness into the business mainstream. In early 2018, he co-founded the Institute for Organizational Mindfulness (IOM), a non-profit association of corporate leaders, academics, neuroscience and mindfulness experts.

Mike was introduced to meditation in 1967, and has been a student of Eastern wisdom and contemplative traditions for almost 50 years. He began his science-based mindfulness practice in 2015.

“Neuroscience has proven that the mind can alter the physical structure of the brain. This extraordinary discovery takes meditation out of the realm of spirituality, and redefines it as a straightforward neural training process, with predictable and remarkably positive outcomes. Training that strengthens mental states and behavioral traits is an invaluable new lever for organizational leadership and talent development.” — Michael Foster, 2018

Participants Receive:

• A 10-session series of curated video lessons

• A 2-hour live master class on the nature, science and application of mindfulness

• A rich experience of mindfulness, open awareness, and meditation practices

• A beautifully produced mobile meditation app for IOS and Android

• Thousands of guided meditations from the world’s best teachers

• Dozens of expert compilations (for mental clarity, concentration, compassion, etc)
  

• Over 1,000 scheduling tools and timers, ambient sounds, and music tracks

• Over 3,000 discussion groups and local meet ups

• A detailed 90-day roadmap for getting started and staying on the path

• A comprehensive guide to best practices for the workplace

• A Student Portal with curated articles, papers, research, tools and resource

• A 24/7 direct line to our best teachers, via email or phone

Mindfulness is Neural Training

Traditional Mindfulness is a 2,500 year old Buddhist spiritual practice that promises to reduce human suffering, and illuminate a path to bliss.

Science-based Mindfulness is a performance-focused neural training program that has been proven to:

1. Reduce our brain's primitive signals of pain, anxiety, fear and panic

2. Reduce our evolutionary default to worry, rumination and self-criticism

3. Reduce work-related stress, distraction, conflict, unconscious bias, overload, overwhelm and burnout

4. Reduce the costs of health care, absenteeism, workplace toxicity and employee turnover.

5. Increase effective leadership, and workforce motivation, engagement, performance and productivity

Mindfulness Rewires the Brain

Mindfulness is a process that calms the mind, increases attention control and strengthens emotional regulation. The results are measurable improvements in health, happiness, cognitive performance and emotional intelligence.

It is an exercise program for mental strength that literally rewires the structure and function of the brain - and a simple, minutes-a-day practice that changes mindsets, encourages engagement, deepens concentration, and improves relationships at home and at work.

Mindfulness Produces Remarkable Benefits

Three decades of research across neuroscience, microbiology, psychology and medicine, have proven that mindfulness produces an array of remarkable benefits:

Health and Wellness

• Reduces toxic stress and anxiety

• Reduces rumination and worry

• Reduces depression

• Reduces chronic illness

• Slows cellular aging

• Strengthens immunity and resilience

Cognitive Performance

• Improves focus and attention control

• Improves clarity and concentration

• Improves situational awareness

• Improves logic, strategy and planning

• Improves critical thinking and decision-making

Emotional Intelligence

• Reduces bias and reactivity

• Increases self-awareness

• Strengthens emotional control

• Deepens empathy and compassion

• Improves communication skills

• Sharpens intuition and rapport