Please note: The workshops in this series are taught live online, over four consecutive Thursdays. Each starts at 10:00 am Pacific (1:00 Eastern) and runs for 90 minutes. Your Zoom Login and Meeting ID will be in your confirmation email, and in a reminder email you should receive about 48 hours ahead of the class.

Happiness, Engagement and Performance

Mindfulness can be experienced as a state of open awareness in the present moment, anytime, anywhere… even at work. Which is critically important, since we now spend more time at work than at all other waking activities combined - and because work is now the single most common source of chronic stress and illness.

The practice of mindfulness makes us more interested, more curious and more connected to our work. It produces feelings of empathy, compassion and kindness towards others. It dampens the bias, fear and aggression of the primitive limbic system, and strengthens the logic, rationality, critical thinking and problem-solving of the modern neocortex.

Mindfulness dials down our anxiety, self-criticism and worry. It quiets the chattering mind, helps us disregard distractions, and focuses our full attention in the present moment, on our most important task. This is the most positive, pleasure-inducing state for the brain, and it rewards us with greater happiness, deeper engagement, and peak performance.

Mindfulness @ Work

Join us for a comprehensive introduction to mindfulness, presented live-on-the-web in four 90-minute workshops, with 90-days of self-paced mobile learning to help you firmly establish your practice.

Mindfulness is a neural training process for individuals and teams who want to reduce stress and negativity, and become healthier, happier and more productive in the workplace and at home.

Week I. Mindful Basics

Mindful Basics is an introduction to the most important fundamentals of mindfulness - What it is, where it came from, why it’s so important today, how it’s practiced, and the neuroscience that supports it.

We’ll look at the research and the proven benefits in health and wellness, cognitive performance and emotional intelligence - Then learn the fundamentals of meditation, how to set our intentions - and how to establish a durable, effective mindfulness practice that fits our priorities and schedule.

As we go, we’ll learn mindfulness practices that cultivate fundamental attention control and positivity.

Week II. Mindful Me

Mindful Me explores the impact of mindfulness on our own health and happiness - dampening stress and anxiety, while strengthening mental fitness and resilience.

We’ll see how mindfulness improves self-awareness - sharpening our understanding of ourselves, how we affect others, and how we’re perceived in the world - We’ll learn how to exercise better control of our thoughts, emotions and behaviors - and we’ll learn to overcome self-doubt and self-criticism, with self-compassion.

As we go, we’ll learn mindfulness practices that cultivate our self-knowledge, self-control and self-acceptance.

Week III. Mindful You

Mindful You teaches us to apply mindfulness to help create and sustain positive and rewarding relationships with others.

We’ll learn about the dynamics of empathy and compassion, and how they shape human nature, our societies, and our relationships at work - We’ll see how mindfulness enables us to connect more closely, listen more deeply and communicate more effectively - and how it helps us navigate and resolve conflict when relationships become difficult.

As we go, we’ll learn mindful practices that cultivate social skills and emotional intelligence.

Week IV. Mindful Workplace

Mindful Workplace brings mindfulness to our offices and jobs, by far the major sources of stress, anxiety and depression for American adults.

We’ll see how mindfulness can help us deal directly with information overload, digital distraction and burnout at work - We’ll learn mindful strategies for managing our calendars, our meetings, email, text and social media - and emergency mindfulness, in case we’re flooded or suddenly overwhelmed.

As we go, we’ll learn mindful practices that cultivate calm, awareness and concentration