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2 Types of Stress

There are 2 types of stress; eustress and distress. What is the difference and how it this helpful?

Building a Growth Mindset

We can learn new things and cultivating a growth mindset allows us to do that.

Cultivating Empathy

Empathy is a learned skill. You can cultivate it.

Flow and Engagement

Have you ever been in a state of flow? It comes down to your perceptions of your challenges versus your skills.

Fostering Prosocial Behavior

We all can learn how to be more social in a positive way.

PERMA Model of Thriving

What is the PERMA model and how can we use it to improve our well-being.

Mindfulness and Teamwork

Mindfulness practices allow us to build greater empathy and understanding for others. This in turn help improve teamwork and collaboration.

Mindfulness Return on Investment (ROI)

There is a very easy way of calculating Return on Investment (ROI) and Mindfulness. 47% of the time the average person's mind wanders. This has a huge impact in the workplace and the cost of this lost productivity is large. The ROI of rolling out a Mindfulness strategy is huge.

Reducing Stress and Increasing Well-Being with Mindfulness

Mindfulness can help everyone reduce their overall levels of stress. From focused attention to Optimistic Re-framing, these skills have be learned and improved upon with practice.

Mindful Workplaces

Creating a mindful workplace is more that giving a class. It's about creating an environment where the people are valued and given the opportunity for personal improvement. This in turn improves an organizations overall productivity.

Mindful Communication

Mindfulness can help everyone improve their communication skills. From generous listening to compassionate responding these skills help get the word across more effectively.

Mindfulness, Motivation and Goals

Mindfulness can help everyone achieve their goals. Being aware of our negative limiting stories and recognizing that we can change these beliefs allows us to move forward with greater ease.

Increasing Focus and Productivity

In today's world we are becoming more and more distracted. Our ability to focus is diminishing. Practicing Mindfulness allow us the space to practice maintaining focus and improve our overall level of concentration therefor becoming more productive.

Mindful and Compassionate Leadership

Gone are the days of the cold and distant leader. There are 3 key drivers in great leadership; trust, vision and values. The great news is these levers of great leadership are trainable skills.

Mindfulness and Creativity

Mindfulness can help ones creative juices flow. By spending the time to pause and listen for inspiration and guidance allows ideas to emerge.

Diversity and Inclusion

Increasing diversity and inclusion in any organizations takes real proactive action.

Mindfulness and Customer Focus

Mindfulness can help your organization be more customer focused and there are a number of practices that one can do to increase the skills necessary to meet your customer's needs.

Ultimate Guide to Mindfulness @Work

This is an Ultimate Guide for Mindfulness @Work. If you are interested in changing your organizations culture so it becomes for Mindful and aware then here are the 7 key steps to follow.

Mindfulness and HR Professionals

HR professionals are very busy and time is money. That is why we developed a series of online Mindfulness programs that you can take which allows you the flexibility of learning at your own pace, on your schedule and wherever you want to be.

Mindfulness and Lawyers

We all want to succeed and achieve. The good news is that the latest findings in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience show us a different approach: a Mindful and Compassionate approach.