“Bosses Ignore Mental illness” interesting article in The Age reporting on a recent SANE survey of more than 500 workers which found 95% felt their employers were uneducated about mental illness and needed training to manage its effects. Most said ‘no support’ had been provided to them when they were mentally unwell. It is such a […]
The Mind Business
A recent article from the Financial Times Magazine that introduces us to some international organisations that have introduced meditation to their team. * General Mills have their ‘Mindful Leadership’ program * Google the ‘Search Inside Yourself’ program * Target have a group called ‘Meditating Merchants’. As William George, Goldeman Sachs board member says, “The main […]
Meditation & Multi-tasking
A study from the University of Washington Information School professors David Levy and Jacob Wobbrock suggests that meditation training can help people working with information stay on tasks longer with fewer distractions and also improves memory and reduces stress. “To our knowledge, this is the first study to explore how meditation might affect multitasking in […]
Meditation & Emotional Intelligence
What’s going on at Google? Forbes magazine online features Chade-Meng Tan’s program at Google, called ‘Search Inside Yourself’ designed to teach emotional intelligence through meditation, ‘business-friendly mindfulness’. View an online video of Meng giving a lecture on Mindfulness. Chade-Meng Tan is “Head of Personal Growth” at Google this really interesting article from Forbes online, provides […]
Turbo-Charge The People In Your Organiza...
Elevated Existence magazine reported recently that Dr Mehmet Oz (this is televised on Channel 7 in Australia) is now offering Transcendental Meditation (TM) to his entire NY-based production team. Over recent months there has been a steady stream of high-profile celebrities ‘talking the talk’ on TM, most notably Oprah whose support of the technique flooded […]
Meditation In The Corporate Environment
Two studies released this month which focus specifically on meditation in the corporate environment: #1 Creative Thinking The outcome of a study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and fellow researchers at Leiden University (published 19 April in the open access journalist ‘Frontiers in Cognition’) found certain meditation techniques can promote heightened creative thinking. The study […]
Meditation & Business Leadership
An article from The Independent Newspaper of the Harvard Business School Community (The Harbus) notes a new study that will look into ‘whether meditation can help business leaders increase self-awareness, mental clarity, focus and emotional intelligence. It is often also claimed that meditation helps a leader develop more authenticity, tolerance and empathy, which leads to […]
Meditation And Focus
One of the often mentioned benefits of a regular meditation practice .. is an improvement in our ability to focus and concentrate. This is often something we realise for ourselves quite quickly, once we start a meditate practice .. it’s like going to the gym and lifting weights; in meditation we are flexing, relaxing, strengthening […]