Mindfulness for Success

 
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Mindfulness For Success

Available in person or remotely for distributed workforces

When our mind is racing, we’re procrastinating, working slowly, are irritated, or we're dreading work, that’s a sign of stress overload. As more stress builds our productivity drops, taking longer to get work done. We avoid doing important tasks, are easily distracted, and more mistakes are made.

Among the most successful ways to greatly reduce stress is Mindfulness. When stressed, our brain works less usefully because it activates areas involved in fear, aggression, and strong emotions. This reduces functions like good decision making, clear thinking, happiness, creativity, and spotting opportunity.

Mindfulness uses simple here-and-now experiences to trigger a massive internal shift in the brain. These skills are simple to learn, easy to use, and take only a few minutes a day. This training is ideal to help break the cycle of stress and resource participants with the skills to be happier and achieve more.

Training

Our Mindfulness for Success training gives practical help to break the cycle of stress and lost opportunity. Our expert trainers will share simple to use practical mindfulness skills which can be deployed in minutes and make a real difference.

Awareness of how to control negative emotion and its detrimental impact is followed by an understanding of the neuroscience and data around what we can do about the problems and how mindfulness helps.

The practical skills are woven through the training and we finish by developing personalised implementation plans to help keep those skills in use to continue reducing the stress load and develop efficiency and wellbeing into the future.

Program Leader

This training is led by John Prendergast MA, an expert in stress and anxiety who has professional training in Mindfulness and its application in the workplace. His practical and easy to implement style of training is ideal for workplaces where tensions may already be high. (Read more about John here).

Relevant Research

Even a single session of Mindful Meditation can yield noticeable increases in psychological functioning.

“Brief Meditation Interventions: Mindfulness, Implementation Instructions, and Lovingkindness.” (Polizzi et al, 2019), Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Focusing on the present more of the time reduces negative rumination.

“Being Present: Focusing on the Present Predicts Improvements in Life Satisfaction But Not Happiness.” (Felsman et al, 2017), Emotion, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 1047–1051

We react less to negative emotional stimulus with Mindfulness.

(Ortner et al, 2007) Mindfulness meditation and reduced emotional interference on a cognitive task. Motivation and  Emotion, 31, 271–283.

Brief mindfulness interventions in the workplace saw participants report significant improvement in well-being, lower distress, lower job strain, and better perceptions of workplace social support compared to the control group.

“Mindfulness On-The-Go: Effects of a Mindfulness Meditation App on Work Stress and Well-Being.” (Bostock et al, 2018), Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 1, 127–138.

Mindfulness reduces stress and improves sleep.

(Hoffman, C, 2010) "Does mindfulness increase wellbeing?" Journal of holistic healthcare, Volume 7 Issue 1 May 2010

Mindfulness is linked to a lower neurological risk for anxiety.

“Mindfulness Meditation Intervention Alters Neurophysiological Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Preadolescents” (Shanock et al, 2019), Journal of Psychophysiology, Advance Publication.

Acceptance Mindfulness increases stress resilience.

“Psychological Mechanisms Driving Stress Resilience in Mindfulness Training: A Randomized Controlled Trial.” (Chin et al, 2019), Health Psychology, Vol. 38, No. 8, pp. 759–768

Memory improves as do positive emotional feelings.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction may help reducing blood pressure levels and blood pressure reactivity to stress.

“Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Physiological Activity During Acute Stress: A Randomized Controlled Trial.” (Nyklíček et al, 2013) Health Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 10, pp. 1110–1113

Mindfulness reduces the activation of brain fear centres (amygdala) to stressful stimuli.

“Mindfulness Training Reduces Stress and Amygdala Reactivity to Fearful Faces in Middle-School Children.” (Bauer et al, 2019), Behavioral Neuroscience. Advance Publication.

Regular mindfulness can improve daily well-being

“The temporal order of change in daily mindfulness and affect during mindfulness-based stress reduction. (Snippe et al, 2015), Journal of Counseling Psychology, 62(2), 106–114

Reduces exhaustion - 10 min mindfulness refreshes as much as 44 minutes extra sleep.

"Close your eyes or open your mind: Effects of sleep and mindfulness exercises on entrepreneurs' exhaustion." (Arthurs et. al. 2019), Journal of Business Venturing, Volume 35(2).

Less Rumination, greater attention, and better memory.

(Chambers et al 2008), The Impact of Intensive Mindfulness Training on Attentional Control, Cognitive Style, and Affect. Cognative Therapy Research 32, 303–322.

Momentary mindfulness can reduce negative emotions, promote adaptive emotional responses, and foster emotional well-being.

“A Mind Full of Happiness: How Mindfulness Shapes Affect Dynamics in Daily Life.” (Rowland et al, 2018), Emotion, Advance Publication.

Mindfulness for stress reduction reduces symptoms and increases wellbeing. The impact on brain structures is a also measurable with less activation of areas implicated in stress response.

“Neural changes associated with mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR): Current knowledge, limitations, and future directions.” (Hatchard et al, 2017), Psychology & Neuroscience, 10(1), 41–56.

People experience more positive emotional wellbeing when accepting present experiences in a mindful non-judgemental way.

“Pathways to happiness are multidirectional: Associations between state mindfulness and everyday affective experience.” (Blanke et al, 2018). Emotion, 18(2), 202–211.