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Mindfulness and Compassion
@Work
A 7-step journey from self-leadership to co-leadership
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As our world continues its digital evolution, the way we work and do business is changing.
New skills and behaviors are needed to navigate today’s complex and fast-paced business environment, including fresh approaches to the way we connect and communicate. This program supports business owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs to bring more mindfulness and compassion into their daily business interactions. Discover your inner world and learn how to work more effectively with others, whilst developing an agile working culture and cultivating an environment of creativity and collaboration across your organization.
Introduction
This 2.5-day program supports you to:
- move from self-leadership to co-leadership, transferring the focus from “I” to “We”
- inspire connection, trust, and confidence amongst your workforce, empowering each person to be and express themselves authentically
- cultivate agile and purpose-driven mindsets in response to the challenges and complexity of today’s digital age
- foster innovation, creativity, and solution-oriented thinking across your organization
- reduce tension and stress by infusing all areas of working life with mindfulness, compassion, and connection
Who we are
Mounira Latrache brings 15+ years of leadership experience at international brands like Google, Red Bull, and BMW. Mounira pioneered the mindfulness community at Google; its success led her to share her expertise with other companies and she has trained teams around the globe. As an international thought-leader, Mounira is also sought around the world for her keynotes and trainings on mindfulness and compassion.
Angel Hernandez is a full-blooded entrepreneur and international expert in co-creative project development. Over the last decade he has supported individuals, groups, and organizations to connect with their true purpose and develop innovative strategies to overcome their challenges. Combining learning organization models with mindfulness practice forms the heart of Angel’s work.
What You'll Learn
Learn how to empower yourself and others, cultivate trust and innovation, and develop an agile, responsive organization.
Becoming aware of our own inner world helps us better understand the people we work with, do business with and relate to on a personal level. Together, we’ll examine what it means to connect with ourselves and others, learning practical mindfulness tools that help you lead with awareness and compassion and enable you to navigate challenges effectively.
Covering topics like authentic communication and compassionate leadership, we’ll strengthen your confidence and unlock your full potential as a leader in your own field of influence. You’ll learn how to be authentic, effective and create meaningful relationships in the workplace. We’ll show you how putting people first – even in a fast-moving business environment – brings out their best and creates positive outcomes across your organisation.
The brightness of your company’s future depends upon its ability to unlock the potential of your teams and successfully respond to new challenges.
“In this workshop I understood dependencies in my company which I hadn’t seen before. In this way, I was able to integrate potentials of my team and create a culture of connectivity, which has led us to new paths of innovation that contribute to the sustainable growth of my company.”
Jan Ulmer
CEO, Education Visionaires GmbH
How it works
This transformative journey from self-leadership to co-leadership guides you through 7 distinct topics that provide the insights, skills, and practical tools you need to navigate the challenges of 21st century business leadership. Combining different mindfulness practices with group work activities, you’ll trial new concepts in a supportive and educational environment, discuss your ideas with other participants, and gain feedback from our experienced mindfulness trainers. You’ll leave feeling confident in your new skill-set, ready to bring fresh insights and perspectives to your teams and implement new action plans that facilitate a mindful, compassionate, and connected company culture.
Program Overview
Self-Leadership
Before we can work effectively with others, it’s essential to understand and appreciate ourselves. Are we aware of our own strengths and weaknesses? Do we know what drives us? What does our ideal role look like? Our self-leadership phase is designed to help you get to know yourself better: you’ll learn how to master your inner and outer worlds, become self-directed, and unlock your true potential. Together, we’ll uncover your passion and purpose, help you develop or deepen your own personal practice, and design a comprehensive strategy to connect and optimize your personal and professional life.
AUTHENTIC RelationshipS
Since thriving work environments depend upon authentic, trusting, and meaningful relationships between individuals, in this phase we’ll explore how to work more effectively with others, even in challenging circumstances. You’ll receive the tools and insights you need to practice compassion in the workplace and communicate your truth authentically. Learn how to connect whole-heartedly with others from a space of empathy, freedom, and openness, and discover how even difficult decisions can be made easy when our actions are guided by mindfulness and compassion.
Co-Leadership
It’s time to harness the power of your whole team! Our final phase helps you explore practical solutions for dynamic and effective co-leadership. You’ll learn how to inspire and motivate your team to elicit each person’s full potential, building a purpose-driven organization that’s united around a shared vision and common values. We’ll explore how promoting solution-oriented thinking can help your team become proactive leaders within their own field of influence, and show you how to foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, and innovation across your organization.
Program Curriculum:
7-Steps to Mindfulness and Compassion @work
1. Introducing Mindfulness and Compassion @Work
Combining practical tools, scientific background, and best practices, our first step introduces you to the topics of mindfulness and compassion at work and explores how they fit into your own company context.
2. Uncover your passion and purpose
Next we’ll discover what drives you, igniting your full potential for creativity and innovation and moving towards a more connected personal and professional life.
3. Develop your personal practice
Gain an overview of different mindfulness methods and techniques: discover what works best for you and develop a personal practice that deepens your connection with yourself and others.
4. Design your life strategy
It’s time to master the art of planning! We’ll develop a comprehensive plan of powerful routines and practical action steps that help you accomplish your long-term work-life goals.
5. Practice compassion
How can we build authentic and meaningful relationships at work? In this step we begin to transfer the focus from “I” to “We”, learning how to cultivate a culture of connection and compassion throughout your whole organization.
6. Communicate authentically
Discover communication methods that help you find your authentic voice. Learn to communicate with clarity, presence, and empathy so that you can maintain positive working relationships even when communicating sensitive or difficult information.
7. Work in a co-creative way
We finish our journey by combining all previous steps into practical solutions for effective co-leadership. Learn how to inspire and motivate your team to elicit each person’s potential and co-create dynamic solutions for your organization.
Results from our program
Pre-Program
53%
Post-Program
71%
Participants reported a greater ability to focus and optimize their mental state.
Pre-Program
52%
Post-Program
68%
Participants reported greater resilience and mental readiness to meet daily challenges.
Pre-Program
41%
Post-Program
60%
Participants reported increased ability to maintain calm and poise in challenging situations.
Pre-Program
53%
Post-Program
35%
Participants reported reduced levels of stress after our program.
FAQ
How does mindfulness fit into a global company transformation process?
We believe that mindfulness is key to company transformation because it helps us to embody agile ways of working. The secret to successful business is – and has always been – to put people first: it’s not necessarily about having the latest technology or an elaborate business model. Enhancing mental resilience and agility increases our capacity to be flexible and successfully respond to challenges – essential skills during any process of company transformation.
Does mindfulness boost performance?
Although mindfulness has been scientifically proven to boost productivity, our focus is on improving people’s overall work-life performance. When we know our deepest motivations in life, have a clear strategy on what we want to achieve, and have the right tools to get there, we become far more effective in all aspects of life. So rather than focusing on performance and productivity alone, we aim to add long-term sustainable value to organizations and the individuals within them.
Why don’t some people connect with their company's purpose and values, despite being involved in defining them?
Although lots of companies involve employees in defining their purpose and values, many people find them difficult to relate to in practice. Unless people have a personal relationship with their company’s purpose and values, they will remain abstract concepts rather than the motivating force and inner compass that they have the potential to be. Healthy teams are made up of individuals that understand their own value landscape, have a clear purpose in life, and are aligned with the purpose and values of their organization.
About Connected Business
We help individuals and organizations bring mindfulness and compassion into their daily business interactions. By inspiring a culture of mindful and inclusive leadership, we aim to build a connected, sustainable, fair, loving and diverse community of people passionate about their work. Join our global movement towards connected business today!