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April Neuroscience Round-Up for Mindful Leaders

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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…

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How to Find Ground Where There is None

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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…

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Why is a Mindful Workplace Essential to Thrive in the New Era?

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By Peter Calin, Mindful Leader MBSR Instructor

The level of stress we’ve experienced in the past two years has increased significantly due to an environment full of uncertainty created by the pandemic, climate change, social unrest, inclusivity and diversity issues, a heightened awareness or concern for work-life balance, and a myriad of other factors.  As a result, the workplace is a fast-paced and stressful environment. How do leaders now lead their organizations in a global market that has c…

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Four Mindful Steps to Lead With Compassion

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By John J. Murphy, guest contributor

In 2009 I wrote a book titled, Beyond Doubt: Four Steps to Inner Peace. Originally, the book was intended to help people in all walks of life live with more presence, confidence, compassion, and abundance. It was the first book I wrote outside of the business and leadership genre, so I was surprised to learn a few years later that it was being used by a “sensei” (master teacher) at one of the world’s largest corporations to train business leaders how to lead…

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Become a More Conscious and Effective Leader

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Speaker - Rasmus Hougaard

Rasmus Haugaard at the 2017 Mindful Leadership Summit.

Rasmus Hougaard is the founder and CEO of Potential Project, a global leadership, organizational development and research firm serving Microsoft, Accenture, Cisco and hundreds of other organizations. He is co-author, with Jacqueline Carter, of Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way and The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordi…

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Neuroscience Round-Up for Mindful Leaders

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By The Mindful Leader Team

What are the latest ideas and discussions emerging from the fields of neuroscience and psychology, and how might they be relevant to the workplace, leadership, and your life? 

Each month, we will share with you summaries of five recently published neuroscience and psychology articles to keep you current. Here is this month’s Round-Up. We’ve also included links if you’d like to read each article in its entirety. 

1. IQ Tests Can't Measure It, But 'Cognitive Flexibili…

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The Truth of the Matter: How Evidence Supports Compassion

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By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, guest contributor

Our minds are truly incredible, aren’t they? Charged as they are to compile, compute, and make meaning out of all of our experiences—which themselves are filtered through our sensitive bodies, trauma-filled pasts, and complex circumstances of life—our minds come up with infinite, brilliant stories and theories as to why things are the way they are.

With all this in play, it can serve us greatly to ground our assessment of a given situation …

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