Discovery

By Meico Marquette Whitlock, the Mindful Techie, guest contributor

The pandemic has disrupted your life and blurred the lines between working at home and living at work. Your job role may have shifted as we grapple collectively with how to provide essential services with little to no human contact. The volume of emails, texts, tweets, and meetings has increased exponentially. And you’re emotionally spent from all the change, disruption, and uncertainty. 

If you wish things could magically go b…

By The Mindful Leader Team

It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of 2022. Here at Mindful Leader, we are both surprised by how quickly this year has come to an end, but also happy to see the beginning of a new year.

While we are looking back at 2022, we wanted to reshare the most popular articles we shared on social media. We based our picks on our LinkedIn engagement, which includes reactions, shares, clicks, and comments. If you want to join us on LinkedIn, click here. For each article, …

This Free Summit Talk has Expired

Judson Brewer at the 2018 At Work Summit

Judson Brewer presents the role of mindfulness in treating addiction from a research and neuroscience perspective. He identified a missing gap in the field of psychiatric research and foresaw the opportunity to procure research on the effects of mindfulness on reducing addictive behavior. According to the research, mindfulness practices produced outcomes up to 5x more effective than traditional approaches to res…

By the Mindful Leader Team

This week, we look at the promise of mindfulness meditation in treating anxiety and encouraging helping behavior, as well as why we tend to underestimate the value of our kindness towards others and what scientists have discovered about breathing and brain changes. Finally, we’ll tackle the big question that’s been on most of our minds lately: why does it feel like Christmas comes earlier each year? We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below with links …

By The Mindful Leader Team

How many projects should you work on at once for maximum productivity? This month’s Round-Up has the answer (it’s five), as well as the science behind achieving a mindfulness ‘high’, how breathing affects the brain, promising new treatments for changing epigenetic expression in teen trauma survivors, and even a new theory of consciousness. We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below with links to the full articles.

Your Brain Absolutely Can't Handle Mor…

Kristin Neff, Ph.D. at the 2019 Mindful Leadership Summit.

How to Motivate Yourself with Kindness with Kristin Neff, Ph.D. from @Work 2019. Dr. Kristin Neff, an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, illustrates the importance of self-compassion, from the individual, to business context, to use with military veterans. She explains the difference between motivation by self-compassion and self-esteem. Self-compassion is a carin…

By John J. Murphy, Guest Contributor

Every holiday has meaning. These mindful moments offer us the opportunity to step back, reflect, and honor an important time or pivotal point in history. In my mind, Thanksgiving is one of the most important holidays of all – for one simple reason. Gratitude elevates consciousness. When we are in a state of thanksgiving, we are temporarily letting go of anxiety, stress, criticism, and judgmental feelings about what is wrong in the world, and we are recognizi…

By Due Quach, Guest Contributor

Companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives since the establishment of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1964, yet these efforts have been frequently met with resistance or inertia internally. The continued under-representation of women and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in senior management and board positions has led to widespread cynicism. Critics often ques…