Mindfulness Training

Mindfulness is a key skill that supports peak performaning teams. It facilitates peak performing teams by allowing staff members to be present, intentional, frank, succinct and to challenge their own assumptions. Mindfulness is simply about paying attention to attention (John Kabat-Zinn). This can lead to improved relationships, increased self-awareness, and self regulation while being calm under pressure.

Mindful Attention

Paying attention to your attention and developing your concentration is a form of mind training that lays a foundation skill for Emotional Intelligence, Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation. Keeping the mind that calm, clear and focused on demand is the outcome of this training.

Self Regulation

With mindful attention and self-awareness, you now have the platform on which to build. Self-regulation allows for emotional self-mastery, that test your ability to keep a calm head in times of complexity and chaos.

Self-Awareness

Developing your self-awareness is the next step in your mindfulness training. This will help you make an accurate self assessment of your mind-states as well as help you become more comfortable with your emotional range.

Empathy

You will be better equipped through mindfulness practice to see other perspectives, to walk in the shoes of others and to see both sides of the situation. Develop the mental habits of kindness, and goodwill to build better relationships.

Leading with Compassion

Develop compassion with the empathy building block in place. Coupled with self-awareness it is possible to elevate to transformational and servant styles of leadership. Dealing wholistically with jugular issues will bring you to a point where you will move, touch and inspire those around you.

Motivation

Your motivators will be the result of your conditioning. This process will lay bare that conditioned mind, and give you access to better understand why you do what you do when you do it. When the behaviour is identified from the conditioning, its very easy then to dismantle it, and free yourself from that which limits you.

The Business Case

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The business case for emotional intelligence. Mindfulness underpins emotional intelligence. When your team is in a positive emotional state, they are best placed to access peak performance.

Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence - (Tailored to Suit Your Needs)

When we stressed, burnt out, tired, overwhelmed, and in distracted, our minds simply don't generate great ideas or create great organisations.

When combined with the proven phenomenon of 'emotional contagion', teams can lose their access to peak performance.

To enable peak performance, and to allow the mind to attain a state of 'flow', you and your team need to feel calm, conscious and connected.

The skills required to enable these attributes are mindfulness and emotional intelligence. Mindfulness underpins emotional intelligence and places you and your team in the best emotional state to perform the work you came to do.

Scientifically proven, Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence) and John Kabat-Zinn (Mindfulness) have presented guidelines and the business case for why we should be using mindfulness and EQ in the workplace.

Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence can help you and your team in the following ways:

Enhance physical well-being - counter the effects of stress and improve immune functioning
Work better - a little extra blood flow to the frontal lobes goes a long way and meditation increases focus and concentration, memory, problem-solving, and creativity while decreasing distractibility and ruminative thinking.
Build happiness - mindful minds are happy minds. Mindfulness enhances self-awareness, mood regulation and emotional well-being.
Create connected community - many minds make a community. Mindfulness has been shown to enhance perspective taking, social responsiveness, empathy and compassion.