WiseMind Corporate Mindfulness works with various size companies to support the development of mindfulness and bring the best out in people. Mindfulness teaches us to be more present and see things with a fresh pair of eyes. Mindfulness allows us to react to situations with greater intention, responding more objectively rather than based on preconceived notions or knee jerk emotional reactions.  

Mindfulness involves consciously bringing awareness to your here-and-now experience with openness, curiosity and flexibility and the American Doctor Jon Kabat-Zinn defines it as: “Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”  

Meditation is just one way to practice mindfulness. It is a technique that encourages and develops emotional positivity, a calm mind and clarity of thoughts. With regular practice, meditation offers a way to cultivate new and more positive ways of being, and nourishing a more peaceful mind.  

Many professionals feel exhausted, stressed and anxious due to increased workloads, pressure, targets and a whole host of other reasons. We often live in a state of mindlessness whereby our attention is divided between many things at once. It is a state where we are rarely present in our own lives.  

Mindfulness training in your workplace can help you and your colleagues make major positive changes which include:  

• Increased resilience
• Improved problem solving and creativity
• Lower levels of work-related stress
• Better communication and listening skills
• Better focus and concentration
• Greater levels of job satisfaction

Health/wellbeing benefits of practicing mindfulness:  

• Calmness from within
• An improved level of concentration and focus
• Accepting of thoughts and feelings and being able to let go of them
• More clarity, peace of mind and emotional balance
• Develop self-acceptance and self-compassion
• Benefits of mindfulness documented in clinical research:  
• Stress reduction
• Improved health and wellbeing
• Pain reduction
• Anxiety reduction  

WiseMind Mindfulness programs are custom to you and include handouts, self-reflection exercises, audio recordings of your guided meditations and information packs.  

We deliver a range of mindfulness activities tailored to meet the needs of your organization, such as:  

• Self service eLearning through our Learning Management System with Gamification 
• One to two-hour interactive mindfulness presentations on the principles and practices of mindfulness and meditation.
• Multi -Week mindfulness training session, 45 – 120 minutes long, (4 – 10 weeks duration).
• Half-day or all-day mindfulness retreats.
• Mindful resilient leadership and executive mindfulness programs.
• Group and individual consultations.
• Mindfulness Speaker – A lively engaging program for company meetings and organizational retreats
• Custom designed workplace mindfulness programs for your organization or population.

Topics covered include:

• Mindfulness—paying attention in an open, non-judgmental way to what we are doing and what is around us in the present moment.
• Mindfulness and physiology—the stress reaction cycle, and how stress affects our brain and our health and how mindfulness helps.
• Mindfulness as it relates to emotional intelligence, effective communication, and work stress. Learning and refining one of four mindfulness practices including relaxation exercises, seated meditation and gentle yoga.
• Practical suggestions on incorporating mindfulness throughout the workplace.
• Participants are encouraged to bring these practices into all areas of their life. 

Why Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a time tested awareness practice that has been used in medical settings for four decades as an aid for patients coping with stress and chronic conditions. Mindfulness is now used in many organizational and corporate settings as well as law schools, medical schools and business schools. Mindfulness and meditation are scientifically proven to improve efficiency and clarity of mind and have been shown to reduce sick time by improving the immune system.  

• Clinical trials, as well as extensive experience, show that the practice of mindfulness:
• Dramatically improves our stress management, making us better able to deal with challenges created by workloads, deadlines and interpersonal conflict.
• Creates greater mental clarity and focus, upgrading our capacity for critical thinking and problem solving.
• Enhances our focus on the present moment, thereby promoting greater engagement in the here and now – of particular importance to those operating in high-risk environments.
• Improves awareness of our own thought processes and the emotions they trigger, enabling more effective emotional regulation and resilience.
• Increases our capacity to read other people, enhancing empathy and helping us to understand where they may be coming from
• Unleashes our capacity for innovation and creativity.
• Promotes new possibilities in difficult team or interpersonal relationships by replacing habitual reactions with more considered responses.
• Supports a more panoramic perspective, better able to manage change.
• Enriches our appreciation of the greater meaning and purpose in what we do.