“Meditation and intuition are the two most important executive tools of the 21^st century”

Harvard Business School

Mindful Leadership embodies leadership presence by cultivating focus, clarity, creativity, and compassion in the workplace. 

Mindful leaders realise that human performance drives the bottom line. They learn how to renew energy, reduce burnout and create organisations that thrive and flourish. In doing so, they take leadership to a higher level of effectiveness, purpose and meaning. 

As a result, their organisations become resilient, energised and purposeful.

Meditation will improve performance at work as it:

Reduces Stress and Anxiety

Makes you more calm and relaxed by reducing stress and anxiety. The more stress you accumulate, the less efficient your mind and body become. 

Improves Decision Making

 It creates distance between thought and action by stopping and creating space. In times of stress, emotions hijack actions. This pause can help us choose to adjust to our state of being, to calm ourselves down, think, and take the right action

Improves Clarity and Focus

A study by Harvard and MIT neuroscientists found that people who meditated where better able to control their alpha brainwaves which helps you to minimise distractions. It allows you to focus better by regulating how things will impact on you.

Increases Creativity and Innovation

Meditation promotes *creative thinking.  New ideas are generated and problems are solved. Innovation is the result. 

*A study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and her fellow researchers at Leiden University, in Frontiers in Cognition.

Builds Resilience

Real power comes from flexibility, not rigidity by being able to embrace and adapt to change. When we strive for something without being attached to a specific outcome, we are more open to possibilities and opportunities that are in front of us, and we act with less fear and greater presence. 

It helps us to go outside of our comfort zone to bounce back from failure, to take risks and try again. 

Positive Effects on the Brain

Through neuroplasticity, the brain transforms itself and grows new neurons. This increases the *learning and memory processes of the brain.

Research from Harvard, Medical School at Massachusetts and the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging in Germany

Increases Intuition

It heightens that sense of knowing we all have – our inner voice or gut feeling. Steve Jobs is quoted as saying…

 “I began to realise that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis…intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work”.

Creates More Harmonious Relationships

By responding rather than reacting.

By connecting more meaningfully and authentically. This results in fostering deep, open, generative dialogue.

Manage Your Energy

Energy is highly contagious and it’s important to have plenty when you are a leader. 

A good 20 minute meditation has been scientifically proven to be equivalent of 3-5 hours sleep.

Robert Kegan, the Professor of Development at Harvard University says 

‘An organisation cannot perform at a higher level than the consciousness of the leadership of the organisation’. 

For Bespoke meditation programmes are available to leaders, teams at all levels and individuals. Please email carolyne@stillyourmind.com.au for further information