Mindfulness at Work™

Mindfulness meditation is a powerful way to manage stress, and may well become the foundation of a comprehensive new model of clinical healthcare. Most simply expressed, mindfulness is paying attention to moment-to-moment experience. Mindfulness meditation helps to restore and maintain a sense of personal balance and develop the skills to avoid emotional and physical depletion. This is important not only for persons with stress-related conditions but also for those who want to avoid such conditions.

Mindfulness at Work™ teaches participants to care for themselves as an integrated aspect of daily life. The skills of mindfulness enable participants to be more present, and therefore more responsive, to the needs and concerns of their colleagues and partners. This kind of presence and immediacy enhances participants’ work and life experience. In addition, Mindfulness at Work™ teaches participants to become aware of triggers and automatic (habitual) responses – an essential component of supporting any kind of behavioral change. Whether success is defined in terms of career objectives, interpersonal relationships, or healthful attitudes and behaviors, personal awareness is a key component.

Mindfulness at Work™ is a new program leveraging many of the principles and skills taught in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program (MBSR) developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center’s Stress Reduction Clinic. Both programs have a substantial body of evidence supporting mindfulness as a tool for mitigating stress and providing many different physiological and psychological benefits.

The Mindfulness at Work™ program consists of 12 one-hour classes, plus a two-hour intensive (for a total of 14 hours), intended to educate participants in mindfulness and stress reduction, and in developing a set of skills and tools for increasing productivity and creating success in life.

Mindfulness at Work™ promotes active partnership in participatory medicine, in which patients/clients take responsibility for looking inward to tap their own resources for learning, growing, healing, and positive transformation.

# Of Classes: 12 classes offered weekly

Class Length: 1 hour. A 2-hour experiential workshop is conducted the 10^th week of class

Format: Live, online program

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