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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…
Why is a Mindful Workplace Essential to Thrive in the New Era?
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…
From McMindfulness to Integral Social Mindfulness: Taking a Stand for Both Personal and Social Transformation

David Forbes at the 2019 Mindful Leadership Summit.
Is Capitalism the Solution or Problem? Changing the World by Changing How We Do Business

Raj Sisodia at the 2018 At Work Summit.
Four Mindful Steps to Lead With Compassion
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…
Become a More Conscious and Effective Leader

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…
Neuroscience Round-Up for Mindful Leaders
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…
The Truth of the Matter: How Evidence Supports Compassion
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 …


