Well-Being Seminars
Are you interested in promoting a positive workplace culture that values and supports mental and emotional wellness? These compact, but powerful sessions are designed to enhance personal well-being, relational health, and emotional intelligence by addressing specific and relatable topics through the lens and science of mindful awareness.
Seminar Descriptions
Mindful Well-Being 101
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.
The Pause: 2 Minutes a Day Can Be a Game Changer
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,
You will walk away from this session with:
You will walk away from this session with:
- A clear definition of mindfulness and its relationship to stress
- 4 concrete mindfulness practices
- Practical ways to weave these skills into your life at work and at home
- An opportunity to increase understanding and compassion for yourself and those around you
Join us to experience how as little as 2 minutes a day can be a game changer for you!
A Taste of Mindful Eating: What’s in a Bite?
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!
This session requires participants have some food to work with. We recommend a few Hershey’s kisses and a small box of raisins for each participant.
You will walk away from this session having:
- 2 concrete mindful eating practices that help you to feel more nourished and enjoy your food even more
- More awareness of your autopilot habits: eating and beyond
- Practical ideas of how to “wake up” from autopilot to other meaningful areas of your life
- A bonding experience with other participants
This session requires participants have some food to work with. We recommend a few Hershey’s kisses and a small box of raisins for each participant.
Identify Your Stress Signature: Managing Stress Skillfully
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.
You will walk away from this session having:
In this session, you will learn the mindful awareness skill of identifying your stress patterns. You will experience how tuning into your mind and body’s signals under stress can empower you to work through strong emotions and triggering events in more intentional, insightful, and effective ways.
You will walk away from this session having:
- A clearer understanding of the human stress response and its impact on you
- The ability to analyze your own stress profile
- 2 concrete mindfulness practices that you can use regularly to help you transform the way you manage stress
- Practical ways to weave these skills into your life at work and at home
- An opportunity to increase understanding and compassion for yourself and those around you
Improve Your Sleep
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.
Ruminating Thoughts: Getting Out of Your Own Way
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 Without Fixing
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.
Integrating Compassion into Challenging Moments
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.
Mindfulness is Evidence Based: Let's Talk Research
Over the past 40 years, mindful well-being has been studied by experts around the world, and the evidence is tangible. We will take you through the research and highlight the impact that mindfulness-based strategies can have in your organization.
Self-Care: Transform How You Treat Yourself
While we all know we should take care of ourselves, self-care often gets lost in the shuffle of the day. We can go through our days feeling overworked, stretched, and running on empty. And yet, we often feel like we don’t have the time, resources, or permission to take care of ourselves. Explore how making small shifts can fundamentally alter the way you feel and take away tools to be more intentional with your well-being.
Two Minutes a Day: Mindfulness in the Classroom
Would you like students to build healthy habits that help them to be more intentional and aware? With two minutes a day of mindfulness, you can provide the time for students to cultivate necessary skills to calm down and envision and reinforce their personal dreams and intentions. Like interest in a good investment, two minutes a day, every day, can serve as an emotional investment that will compound and grow exponentially. Please join us in learning to guide your in-person or online classroom and feel comfortable doing it.
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