The way I pay attention, the way opportunities emerge.
Connect the fundamental source of leadership
Just as we understand that there are innate capacities of our bodies that can be trained to make us more resilient, flexible and stronger, we now know from neuroscience research that there is universal training we can experience that can cultivate and strengthen our mind’s capacity.
Mindful Leadership training is fitness for the mind.
With dedication and practice, you can transform yourself and your organization.
The mindful leadership course is an experiential training based on personal practice of meditation, reflection, and other contemplative practices in one purpose, the development of four fundamental qualities of leading and living with excellence.
This course is specifically designed to help you to integrate the mindful leadership practices into your daily life one step after another. You’ll learn to:
– Focus Creative Mind
– Focus and calm the flow of your mental to cultivate mental and physical resilience.
– Allow space for creative solutions by becoming more comfortable with uncertainty.
– Improve ability to make choices and decisions linked with values and wholeness.
– Adapt the concept of leadership in a context of instability and lack of visibility.
Mindfulness for organizations helps leaders and decision makers in four fields or four steps.
First, focusing. People now days have to deal with a huge amount of information, mail, etc. Attention is scattering, aptitude to focus is also decreasing. Attention allows us to know the world, a mind focused help to get clarity and stability.
A focused mind is not enough to support leaders and decision makers. Mindfulness helps to sense. Sensing is the second field. It’s the ability to go beyond automatisms and connects us with a deep space of inspiration and intuition. There is a gap here: this space is also the place of vulnerability and emotions. Most people in companies, have tendencies to switch off this space. It makes good experts, but it makes troubles when system is changing. Empathy and creativity are switched off too.
Sensing is not enough in transforming organizations. Leaders and decision makers need to go beyond the Ego system. Learning to connect to our feelings, see how thoughts and emotions make illusions, understand others and observing environment beyond our pattern is the third field of Mindfulness.
Walking from one ego to go through an ecosystem allow us to come in the last field. Social Awareness technologies offer the possibility to prototype and shape emerging future. Paying attention to falling trees is easy; paying attention to a growing forest is less easy and need some awareness technologies.
Class Descriptions
This 3 days workshop is an excellent introduction to mindfulness for Leader. It provides insight into the basics of mindfulness, how to develop a mindfulness meditation practice, and how mindfulness can be applied in daily life. It is also appropriate for experienced practitioners who wish to revitalize their practice.
Both teachers are professionals and certified mindfulness trainers.
Each day’s program is a combination of lecture, practice, guided meditation, and group feedback and discussion.
You will find also self learning modules with home practices and practical tips in order to integrate what you learn into your daily life and work.
Program:
Day 1: Focus, Clarity: Learning Through Mindfulness Meditation
Morning
Welcome!
Focus and pacify agitations with mindfulness. Why? How
Which kind of leader are you? Would you like to be lead by yourself?
A definition of Mindfulness : a way to clarify my Intention
Orientations and applications : Kabat-Zinn, Ellen Langer, Arthur Zajonc
A non formal awareness in daily life
Improving dropping meditation
Afternoon
Dropping meditation/ Attending/
Inner attention shapes experiences: the blind spot of the driver
Learn to listen my self:
What is Leadership in mindfulness context?
o Doing or being in daily life
o Do I download knowledge from the past to resolve complexity?
o How to reconnect in the present moment and observe what is growing on in the situations beyond my patterns
Day 2: Reconnection
Morning
Mindfulness with body: how to lean my energy in daily life?
Leading from desire, how mindfulness help to distinguish between:
o The voice of creativity: togetherness, intuition and multiplicity
o The voice of power: selfishness, and unicity
Mindfulness in a collective approach : step 1 listen others with mindfulness
Afternoon
Leading from stress and adversity:
o How mindflulness helps to deal with stress and fear
o Beyond anger with awareness meditation : clarity, willingness, empathy
Body : a data base to feel and to decide
Emotions: a resource for leadership?
Reconnection to the others, step two: talk and listen
Day 3: Emotion and decision
Meditation: finding the space to lead
Collective experience of Mindflul leadership.
Mental and emotion in meditation: Go beyond cognitive bias.
Coaching circle: Mindful leader can support and help one issue?
Compassion in Leadership?
Mandala: May I use wisdom of mindful leaders to go beyond my issues?
Conclusion
Etiquette
Quietness: during meditation, please refrain from speaking. Please turn off your cell phones or PDA’s ring/alert/vibration and leave it outside of the room.
Confidentiality, privacy, kindness and benevolence are rules for feeling comfortable in our group Investment
Standard rate for companies with 15 employees or more: 1250 € (1060 € Before April 30th 15 % off )
Reduced rate for individuals, non-profit and small companies (less than 10 employees): 850 € (720 € Before April 30th 15 % off)
Including training days, course materials and accommodation. These rates are excluding VAT.
Old Abbey of Kortenberg
June 24, 25 and 26 from 9:00 to 17:00
Teachers
Marjan Abadie received her training at U.C.L. in Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies and also in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Today she is a supervisor and board member of the Association for the Development of Mindfulness (ADM). For over fifteen years, Marjan has held responsible positions at Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Avencis and Deloitte & Touche. This vast experience has given
her knowledge of the challenges, constraints, and difficulties inherent in the world of business and management, as well as the consequences of stress for the organization.
Stephane Faure has a master in International Environmental Law from Sorbonne University (Paris). Between 1994 and 2009 he engaged in several years of intensive retreat and taught meditation in Buddhist context. He was formed in the MBSR program by the Center for Mindfulness (Massachusetts) until 2014, and was then granted Certification, the highest degree for officially-recognized MBSR teachers. Since 2012, he has been implementing Mindfulness for transforming organizations various organizations (AXA, Orange France,
Eram…).