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May Neuroscience Round-Up for Mindful Leaders
For this month’s Round-Up, we look at how mindfulness relates to neuroticism and cognitive failures, how to stop choking under pressure, effective ways for overcoming “stresslaxation” and depressive relapses, and the challenges facing covid-19 healthcare workers. We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below with links to the full articles.
1. Mindfulness Can Help Explain the Relationship Between Neuroticism and Cognitive Failures, Study Suggests
According to the Five Factor Model …
How Can Mindfulness Workplace Programs Avoid Legal & Ethical Challenges?
How Can Mindfulness Workplace Programs Avoid Legal & Ethical Challenges?
Professor Candy Guenther Brown, PhD at the 2019 At Work Summit.
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What’s the Difference Between Self-Improvement and Self-Development?
By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, guest contributor
This article has several questions for reflection in blue italics. In these places, you’re invited to pause, feel into your response, and perhaps explore a bit with some notes or journaling.
“To be purposeful is not to be goal oriented, but to seek to reconnect to the source of one's life.”
― Michael Meade
The organic nature of growth
In a recent video, New Ventures West faculty member Adam Klein draws a distinction between self-im…
How Can Corporations Become Healing Forces in the World?
By Raj Sisodia & Michael Gelb
What if there was a company whose CEO said, "Let's pay our people as much as possible"? What if that same company showed up to help communities in distress before FEMA and the Red Cross when there was a disaster? What if your company treated your spouse, your children, your parents, and even your pets, as stakeholders, and made it a priority to ensure that you can be present for them? What if there was a company that not only reduced its environmental footprint to …
What is it like to Meditate across 24 hours?
What is it like to meditate across 24 hours? Mindful Leader CEO Mo Edjlali is joined by Kim Jones, a member of the Meditate Together community, to discuss their experience at the 2022 24 hour Sit-a-thon that occurred on March 30th. The two of them were the only two people to participate in all 24 sessions, and they both came away with some interesting insights from the experience!
Over 600 participants joined the 2022 24 hour Sit-a-thon sessions and raised funds for UNICEF's fund for Ukra…
5 Ways to Bring Your Whole Self to Hybrid Working
By Dan Nixon, guest contributor
Between the busyness of our work lives and shifts towards flexible and hybrid working patterns, the ability to remain grounded, and to be fully present, becomes ever more challenging. Add to this the bottomless newsfeeds on our phones and the blurring of home/work boundaries, and it can easily feel as though our lives become a series of “to-do list” tasks and back-to-back meetings, with any spaces in between quickly filled with emails and other updates.
All of t…
Scientific Rigor at Scale: Applying the Science of Well-being
Peter Weng at the 2019 Mindful Leadership Summit
April Neuroscience Round-Up for Mindful Leaders
By the Mindful Leader Team
For this month’s Round-Up, we explore ways to combat doomscrolling and burnout, how to get healthier dopamine highs, tricks to enhance your wisdom, and the future of mindfulness intervention science. We have summarized the main ideas and key takeaways below with links to the full articles.
1. Ukraine Doomscrolling Can Harm Your Cognition As Well As Your Mood – Here’s What to do About it
Doomscrolling – spending excessive amounts of time reading and consuming negativ…
Workplace Mindfulness: What are the actual benefits according to the latest science?
Darren Good and Christopher Lyddy at the At Work 2018
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How to Find Ground Where There is None
By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, guest contributor
This article has several questions for reflection in blue italics. In these places, you’re invited to pause, feel into your response, and perhaps explore a bit with some notes or journaling.
In the fall of 2017, New Ventures West founder James Flaherty wrote this invitation.
"As I write, another category five hurricane is bearing down upon the Caribbean, President Donald Trump has just threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea, the U…