Participants explore the foundations of mindful awareness through research-based practices that develop their ability to pause and restore balance, with the further intention of consciously choosing responses rather than falling into automatic or habitual patterns. Basic research of the brain and our stress response is explored, setting the context for why mindful practices can be transformative. 

Imagine what it would be like to take moments throughout your day to step back from the constant stream of demands and responsibilities. What would it feel like to create space to reset and feel more grounded, move forward with greater focus and have more clarity? Sounds kind of great, doesn’t it? In this session, we introduce concepts to understand the basics of calming the mind while creating a common language for your team. Additionally, each strategy will help to cultivate compassion for yourself, improve intentional behaviors, and enhance trusting relationships, 

Have you ever gotten to the bottom of a bag of chips and wondered where they all went? Join us in bringing a fresh perspective to something you do every day – eating. This session is a combination of fun and insight. Explore the role of being present in daily tasks often done on autopilot. Experience how to interrupt daily habits that do not serve you well and learn to repattern your actions for ones that do. This interactive session is filled with exploration, conversation, reflection, and best of all – food! 

Stress can get the best of all of us and affect our ability to think clearly, causing us to act, or react, in ways we otherwise wouldn’t. Recent scientific discoveries show that there are clear reasons our stress levels impact our ability to manage ourselves. At the same time, research around mindful awareness also shows there are concrete skills we can build to manage our stress more effectively.    

Healthy sleep has more to do with the quality of rest than the quantity. When we settle the mind, we settle the body and that restfulness makes it easier to wind down and drift off. In addition to basic strategies such as avoiding screens or caffeine, mindfulness meditation for sleep is a specific guided practice that helps to let go of the day’s experiences and emotions so the mind and body can rest. Please join us and experience how to give your sleep patterns a make-over in 10 minutes a day. 

Thoughts are a bit of a tricky thing.  They have the magnificent capacity to help us imagine, problem-solve, communicate, and connect.  However, our thoughts also have the potential to derail us with worries, ruminations, unhelpful narratives, and misconceptions because of its natural negativity bias. The ability to work mindfully with your own thought patterns can make the difference in feeling nourished or depleted. Learn to step back from some thoughts and savor others in this powerful session. 

Listening to others all day long can be exhausting and leave one feeling depleted. In this session you will practice listening in a way where your primary role is to help the other person feel cared for and understood, without having to fix or solve. Listening with a compassionate heart increases feelings of connection and empathy while helping to minimize conflict and misunderstandings. 

Most of us take great care of others, offering compassion when met with challenges. Do you afford yourself the same tender care when struggling? Learn to enhance your abilities to move forward under stress by tending to yourself rather than waiting for others to know what you need. Developing this skill will help you bounce back more easily when met with life’s frustrations.