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Dedicating 2021 to My Grandma
By Mo Edjlali
I’m dedicating this year to my maternal grandmother. She died last Saturday and while the nation, I, and my neighbors here in the DC area were dealing with the frightening attacks on our democracy, my mind was elsewhere.
My grandmother was the closest thing to a real-life angel that I’ve ever known. She was the real deal. This past weekend we celebrated her life. She was born, lived, and died in Tehran, Iran. I’m here in the USA, the Washington, DC area. Iran is kinda my mother …
Naming it, Reframing it, Taming it: Mindfulness in a Pandemic
By Cheri Lovre, guest contributor
The first thing to remember about any crisis is: We’re going to come out of it.
Right now, after months of living with Covid-19, many people feel disoriented. It’s like we’ve lost our North Star. No one can be sure of the best course to follow. But the North Star is there in the sky. We just can’t see it right now because the lingering fog of uncertainty is still all around us.
The vaccines that are emerging now will help, but the uncertainty related to CO…
2021 State of Workplace Mindfulness Survey Report
By the Mindful Leader Team
Completed by over 1,700 people, the 2021 State of Workplace Mindfulness Survey Report provides the most expansive and detailed examination of the state of mindfulness in the workplace ever conducted. The survey was conducted by Mindful Leader, which provides workplace mindfulness training, certification and events; Healthy Minds Innovations affiliated with the neuroscientific research institution the Center for Healthy Minds; and Mindful Communications, publishers of …
Top Ten Articles of 2020
By The Mindful Leader Team
Managing Emotions Effectively in Uncertain Times
By Marc Brackett
Resilience is Not a Luxury: It is Critical to Our Survival
By Fleet Maull
The Privilege of Being Kind
By Mo Edjlali
Should I Be Scared of the Coronavirus? Mindfulness Techniques for Managing Coronavirus Anxiety at Home and Work
By Becky Greiner
How to Use R.O.A.M. Practice to Manage Emotions at Work
By Patrick Briody
How Mindfulness Can Help Manage Work Stress
By Brenda Fingold
How Can Mindfulness Workplace Programs Avoid Legal & Ethical Challenges?
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Dr. Candy Gunther Brown at the 2019 Mindful Leadership Summit. Learn what the most common objections to public-school yoga, mindfulness, and other meditation programs—and recommend best practices to relieve concerns are from an expert witness in four legal disputes. This talk will help program leaders to understand the perspectives of Christian protesters; criticisms of scientific research designs; and charges of cultural appropriation and cultural imperiali…
Training Your Focus Towards Change
By Elisha Goldstein, guest contributor
If there's one thing we know about 2020, it's been a year of change and transition. As 2021 is approaching, our minds may already be thinking about what we want to shift in the year ahead. When we start thinking about embarking on a change journey, we often envision ourselves at the pinnacle of success. We are running that 5K, conversing in Spanish fluently, seeing an ideal body, or are getting a stellar review. However, once we really get down to work we…
The Future of Compassionate Care Work: Beyond the Heroic Paradigm
By Deirdre Guthrie, guest contributor
“We burn out not because we don’t care, but because we don’t grieve.”
- Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, a pioneer in humanizing medicine
Caring professions, such as education, healthcare, social work, and humanitarian development, are based on relationship-based service where workers expend high levels of emotional labor. While care-work is vital to any healthy society, as recent events have made abundantly clear, it continues to be undervalued and, for those…
3 Types of Time Critical to Mindful Leadership Success
By Martin Boroson and Carmel Moore, guest contributors
Looking at your calendar can be soul-destroying.
Sadly, we do it many times a day.
If you believe your calendar, life is a grid. And time is not a flow of experience, but a stack of blocks—equal, interchangeable, and soulless.
The way we actually experience time, however, is neither regular nor mechanical. It is subjective, depending on factors such as mood, stage of life, and whatever we’re doing. For example, time flies when you’re h…
We All Need to be the Iguana
By Gayle Van Gils, guest contributor
“We all need to be the iguana,” says comedian Nick Kroll in a New York Times interview, which strikes me as a statement that pretty much sums up our current situation. The metaphor is about the adaptability of a species of marine iguana Kroll experienced in the Galapagos that can survive even if its tail is bitten off by a bird. Kroll says that he relates this to his life in this way: “The landscape is changing. I can either dig my feet in and be like, ‘…
Leading with Mindfulness, Selflessness, and Compassion
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Jacqueline Carter provides an overview of current leadership challenges and presents research findings for successful leadership practices in the 21st century. To address leadership challenges, Carter shares how mindfulness is an effective tool to manage attention for leaders. She discusses how research demonstrated most leaders feel ‘unmindful’ and their minds are cluttered, therefore resulting in tasks being incomplete. Carter provides three keys to leader…