Mindfulness meets Business

Mindfulness improves the perception of and the response to stress and fosters emotional intelligence, leadership quality and beneficial interactions with business partners and stakeholders.

Recent Research has shown that mindfulness training improves leadership capacities that are important in the 21st century : resilience, the capacity for collaboration and the ability to lead in complex environments. Five key skills, developed through mindfulness training and practice, stood out : emotional regulation, perspective taking, empathy, focus and adaptability.

Being successful in complex conditions is the biggest challenge for today’s organizations and their leaders, because value creation can’t be achieved anymore by following the rules and management concepts of the industrial age. Command and Control is an illusion. Value creation is maximized with self chosen engagement by all employees in an organization. The ability to recognize complexity in daily problems and interactions and addressing complexity with the right approach and impactful methods, requires mindful leadership and secures the organization’s longterm value creation.

As a leader, manager or company owner, you have a lot of responsibility towards your company, your organization and your employees, as well as towards your beloved ones and yourself. Your intention of always giving the best of yourself may lead to a life with only pushing the gas pedal. Maybe you already feel exhausted and are yearning for a quieter time at work, for a longer break, for the next vacation. And when you take time off from work to replenish, to upload your batteries, it takes you long to find a sense of relaxation or feeling energized. Back to work, you probably feel like you have never been away just after one hour back to the office. It seems as if your well deserved and needed time for replenishment and recharge is bouncing back to overload like in a yo-yo effect.  

You are wondering why being at your best doesn’t come easy anymore. Maybe deep inside yourself you know that only doing something counterintuitive such as slowing down will be the solution. You would have to use the brakes as well, what you are not used to anymore, and that can make you feel uncomfortable or even anxious. It would require you to change, the outcome might seem uncertain to you. Maybe it would require you to reflect on how things are done at work, what your business-, management- and leadership practices are and how the collaboration in the leadership and management team and throughout the organization is affecting the overall rhythm and energy of the people working together.

Leaders control the weather in an organization. When you and the whole Management- and Leadership Team make the choice to show up aware and intentional, being in a place of inner strength, calm and clarity,  you are able to match your behaviour and your actions with your intentions. You increase your leadership effectiveness by being fully present in the NOW moment of your impact.

The Mindful Leader Research Findings, Research on mindfulness at work and Mindfulness improves Emotional Self-Awareness for leaders confirm benefits on health and well-being as well as on effective leadership.

The ‚Mindfulness Meets Business @ YouLead’ program supports your learning to get into this mindful state and to cultivate self-awareness as a basis for stepping out of autopilot, controlling your mood and behaviour and consciously directing your actions. Your understanding of how the brain functions, why you can’t deny emotions, what makes human beings automatically react in a mindless way and how you can use your mind to shape your brain functions will reveal to you that mindfulness doesn’t come by itself but is an activity that needs to be cultivated. 

You gain a better understanding of the human brain and mind with insights from the latest findings from neuroscience and the concepts of neuroplasticity, default mode network, epigenetics, the power of emotions and the nervous system with the mind-heart-gut connection. You will get to know and to select practical, simple and easy tools and techniques to integrate into your business life, with no need of being esoteric or spiritual. 

The ‚Mindfulness Meets Business @ YouLead’ program meets you right where you are. In a series of workshops you will understand the concepts and the applications of mindfulness to your business life, and taste experiential learning to the extent of what suits your needs and purpose of engaging into being mindful as often as you can.

Maybe you have a specific purpose for integrating mindfulness into your business, or you are looking for a way to deepen your practice and to bring mindfulness into your whole organization. Maybe you come from a place of knowing that being mindful and heartful always go together for creating the well-being that all living beings naturally tend to. 

Mindfulness Meets Business - Right Where You Are.

The program and workshops are created based on your needs.

By being mindful about yourself and others, you are able feel connected to others and to successfully apply the tools and techniques for lifting your interactions to the next level with deep, rich and co-creating conversations.

Are you planning a Health Day, a Health Week or another Health Event in your company or organization? Then Mindfulness and Yoga are the ideal building blocks to discover various mindfulness practices and exercices for balance and energy in demanding occupations and leadership roles. Here is an example of a day program :

How could this part of your health event look like? Maybe with workshops, short individual coachings, or other activities and time slots, or even a retreat? The preparation for your event is based on your needs and on the needs of the people who are attending the event, and is aligned with the greater purpose of this event for your company or organization. 

Mind Your Body. Mind Your Soul. Mind Your Peace.

Learn more about our 8-weeks company program.

Contact us without any obligation for more information on Mindful Hatha Yoga Programs for your company or organization! We love to answer your questions!

                                              = Better Leadership

More and more companies, organizations and leaders discover Mindfulness as a way to transform people for discovering themselves as a whole person, allowing the full potential of individuals to emerge and to be used by finding the inner strength and peace, regardless of stressful circumstances. 

Discover Mindfulness as a way to bring awareness and presence into your moment to moment experience and into your interactions with others. Mindfulness practices improve your leadership quality with increased emotional intelligence and a better ability to recognize mental patterns to subsequently consciously change habits that don’t serve you anymore. 

The Mindful Leader Research Findings, Research on mindfulness at work and Mindfulness improves Emotional Self-Awareness for leaders confirm benefits on health and well-being as well as on effective leadership.

By practising mindfulness, we get in touch with our inner landscape of thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations. We discover that there is a space created when we do not identify ourselves with our thoughts, emotions and sensations. This space allows for a response of choice instead of an automatic reaction.

There are no goals to hold on in mindfulness practice. It is a choice you make. You will experience the effects of just being, and of not-doing, in your own practice. When practiced without any attempt to reach a goal or any attachment to certain outcomes of the practice, the effects of mindfulness practice will reveal themselves. 

The ability to connect to oneself is fundamental in the practice of Mindfulness. In the program of MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction), Jon Kabat-Zinn gives a detailed roadmap in his books for daily practice.

By practising mindfulness, we get in touch with our inner landscape of thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations. We discover that there is a space created when we do not identify ourselves with our thoughts, emotions and sensations. This space allows for a response of choice instead of an automatic reaction.

There are no goals to hold on in mindfulness practice. It is a choice you make. You will experience the effects of just being, and of not-doing, in your own practice. When practiced without any attempt to reach a goal or any attachment to certain outcomes of the practice, the effects of mindfulness practice will reveal themselves. As those could be

• Increased Resilience
• Better attention
• Better concentration
• Better health
• Better relationships

Emotional Intelligence increases with the level of mindfulness you practice, moment by moment. It's a very personal, transformational journey, based on one's own choice.