Mindfulness
Mindfulness involves experiential processing which "permits the individual to attend to a stimulus as it is, without immediate attempts to derive meaning from it." Mindfulness has been shown to improve attention stability, increase cognitive capacity, improve stress regulation and reduce emotional reactivity (Good et al., 2016).
Healing from Within
Bill Moyers reviews meditation techniques used by Jon Kabat-Zinn in a stress reduction clinic at UMass Medical Center.
Meditation App
A free app for sleep, anxiety, and stress with guided meditations, courses, music and more.
Mindful Meeting Exercises
Dr. Crystal Miller presents Mindful Meeting Exercises, designed to provide a deeper sense of well-being and connection.
Videos
Mindfulness for Life: An Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is an antidote to the tendency to sleepwalk through our days and an invitation to reclaim our lives. Mindfulness-based therapies have been empirically validated as highly effective for reducing stress and preventing relapse in depression and addictions.
An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
CSU's GOT TALENT presents a series of LIVE online webcasts featuring innovative & essential training for your professional and personal success! An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation with Juliet Hwang, MD. Dr. Hwang will share what mindfulness is and how we can use it in our everyday lives, with our families, and at work.
BBC Ideas– 6 Tips to Improve your Work/Life Balance
From BBC: 6 tips to reduce work stress and improve work/life balance.
Online Courses
Staying Balanced in a Shifting Worlds
Achieving a healthy work/life balance gives you the chance to practice mindfulness and focus on what's important in all aspects of your life. Maintaining this work/life balance requires constant vigilance.
Managing Stress for Positive Change
In this course, join instructor Heidi Hanna, PhD as she discusses what stress is, exactly; how you can train yourself to use stress in more effective ways; and what managers can do to reduce employee stress when an organization experiences difficult times.
Put Anxiety to Rest: How to Relieve Anxiety and Rest Well
This audio edition uses enthusiasm and humor to help you gain control in your life, relieve stress, enter relaxation, and sleep well. Read by the authors.
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Articles
Mindfulness in Organizations
This book chapter reviews the definition and concept of mindfulness; the different forms of mindfulness practice in organizations; and the empirical evidence on the effects of mindfulness on work-related outcomes and processes such as employee performance, employee wellbeing, leadership, and ethical decision making. Additionally, the authors discuss a recently developed self-administered mindfulness training program and the results from qualitative interviews with participants of a corporate mindfulness training program.
Benefits of Mindfulness at Work: The Role of Mindfulness in Emotion Regulation, Emotional Exhaustion, and Job Satisfaction
This research investigated the idea that mindfulness reduces emotional exhaustion and improves job satisfaction. Results revealed that participants in the mindfulness intervention group experienced significantly less emotional exhaustion and more job satisfaction than participants in the control group. Implications for using mindfulness and mindfulness training interventions in organizational research and practice are discussed in conclusion.
Mindfulness Interventions in the Workplace: A Critique of the Current State of the Literature
Research investigating the effects of mindfulness interventions on employee health and well-being has strong practical implications for organizations. This review provides a resource to inform practitioners who are considering implementing a mindfulness intervention for employees.
The Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation
Although meditation research is in its infancy, a number of studies have investigated changes in brain activation that are associated with the practice of, or that follow, training in mindfulness meditation. This Review considers the current state of research on mindfulness meditation.
eBooks
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Mindfulness at Work for Dummies
Explaining how mindfulness can help employers wishing to implement mindful practices into the workplace, this practical book provides leaders and mentors with the tools they need to become more effective leaders and coaches.
Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
Authored by one of Google's earliest engineers and personal growth pioneer, this practical resource offers a proven method for enhancing mindfulness and emotional intelligence in life and work.
Overworked and Overwhelmed: [The Mindfulness Alternative]
This book offers actionable hope for today's overworked and overwhelmed professional by making the concepts and practices of mindfulness simple, practical and applicable.
Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being
Resilience is the ability to face and handle life's challenges, whether everyday disappointments or extraordinary disasters. With powerful, time-tested exercises, this book guides us in rebuilding our core well-being and disaster-proofing our brains.
Managing Conflict in Projects: Applying Mindfulness and Analysis for Optimal Results
Drawing upon academic research and real-world examples, this highly accessible guide breaks conflict down to its base components and takes an insightful look at the human and process factors involved.
Authors
Centers
UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center
The Greater Good Science Center studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.
UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
MARC's mission is to foster mindful awareness across the lifespan through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society. MARC was created to bring to a renowned mental health research institution the ancient art of mindful awareness in a scientifically supported and rigorous form.
UMass Medical School: Center for Mindfulness
The mission of the Center for Mindfulness is to explore, understand, articulate and further mindfulness in the lives of individuals, organizations and communities through clinical care, rigorous scientific research, professional training, and informed public discourse.