Mindfulness at Work

Date / Time: 17 February 2016 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
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Join us in central London on our Mindfulness at Work course

Who is it for?

• Staff and organisations interested in exploring how to use their minds more effectively to achieve goals in accordance with their values.
• Staff who want strategies to deal with the general complexity and pace of modern life. Staff experiencing work related stress, sensitivity to a stressful environment or difficulties with their work such as poor concentration, perfectionism or procrastination.
• Staff caught in cycles of worry, anxiety, irritability, low mood, poor self esteem and lack of confidence.
• Staff who want to find ways of working with general stress and anxiety more effectively and for increasing their overall well-being, self-awareness and insight.
• Staff with physical and psychological health problems.

Everyone can benefit from mindfulness. We all face pressures and stresses and can get stuck in our personal reactions. The things that stress and challenge us may not change, but the way in which we deal with them can shift, making it all feel easier. Being more aware and accepting of our thoughts and feelings means we are in a better place to make wise choices and deal with difficulties more effectively.

Course content

• General mindfulness/mental balance training based on mindful attitudes, attention and mind/body awareness skills.
• Mindfulness based stress awareness reduction; recognizing and responding to stress reactions, how they manifest physically and mentally to minimise their negative effects on health and functioning.
• Psychological flexibility and workability – Skills for effectiveness – using mindfulness to increase the capacity to be aware and step back from automatic habits of thinking and behaving to free up attention and energy to focus on personal and professional values and to stick at things even if they involve difficult feelings.

The benefits of mindfulness at work

Over the past few decades, randomised-controlled trials of 8 week courses in MBSR and MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) have shown that mindfulness-based approaches are effective in:

• managing stress, worry, anxiety and depression
• improving people’s relationships
• sharpening attention
• aiding self-regulation and mental balance.

The course will not only teach you ways to reduce stress, but also ways to become more tolerant, ‘stress-hardy’ and resilient, so you will be less thrown by life’s difficulties. Most people completing mindfulness programmes report that they gain lasting benefits, for  example: ‘Participants in a workplace MBSR programme study reported

• 31% decrease in medical symptoms
• a 31% decrease in psychological distress
• 17% decrease in ‘daily hassles’.

Williams. K 2006 – MBSR in a worksite wellness program, in Baer (Ed) Mindfulness based treatment approaches. Academic Press.

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