A comprehensive mindfulness programme
DID YOU KNOW?
Mindfulness practice in the workplace translates directly into improved employee health, by reducing stress, improving resilience, and promoting effective relationship building amongst teams. This means happier, more productive staff and a more resilient company overall.
A body of qualitative evidence supports findings that mindfulness improves workplace functioning and productivity, including:
Staff resilience
Stress reduction
Communication and teamwork
Creativity and innovation
Decision-making
Performance
Amid a growing awareness of the costs of absenteeism, presenteeism and staff turnover associated with stress and mental health problems, workplace mindfulness-based training courses have found positive effects on burnout, wellbeing and stress.
That’s why this unique, 8-week online training programme is ideal for organisations who are looking to reap the benefits of mindfulness.
ulnesbased training courses have found positive effects on burnout, wellbeing and stress.
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Why this course?
Give access to your staff
Why not sign up all your staff on the Mindfulness in Practice course? It’s an excellent employee benefit, and we offer discounts for multiple users.
Real-life examples
We use real case studies and methods used by our specialist.
Practical application
The course avoids theory-heavy lectures, and instead offers learning in practical, bite-sized modules that participants can complete in their own time. Combine science and practicality for a strong understanding of the materials and increased confidence in applying learnings.
High quality materials
Expert materials and step-by-step training to prepare your staff for specific situations with in-depth guidelines and scenarios. All materials are regularly updated to reflect new findings and best practice, ensuring participants always have up-to-date materials throughout the subscription’
Flexible and mobile learning mode
Materials are available 24/7 online, meaning participants can access the course in their own time. Our programme will remember their progress, so they can come back to it when it suits them and revisit the course whenever they need.
Good investment
An online course saves time and money compared to traditional face-to-face events or expensive consultants.
Certificate of completion
Upon completion of the course, participants can download a certificate documenting their professional development.
*For multiple users, please contact Calvin for a personalised quote calvin.roche@forum-training.com.
*Please note that Mindfulness in Practice is a subscription based product*
Agenda
- Module 1
Mindfulness
Session 1 introduces the basics and the benefits of mindfulness, both in the workplace and in your personal life. This sessions looks at the definitions and practices, and debunks some of the myths existing around mindfulness. This session also includes the first check-in, to show your current stress response and its journey through the course.
Exercises include:
Guided meditation: noticing the senses
Becoming present
Understanding mindfulness and its use in the workplace, for example to help increase motivation in your organisation
Take away practice
Mindful eating (explore senses)
Journaling
Check-in tool: Stress response scale phase 1
- Module 2
Stress reduction
Session 2 looks at the definition of stress and how it shows up. Participants are encouraged to consider how they notice when they’re stressed – what are your triggers? The session also looks at burnout and how to recognise the warning signs.
Exercises include:
- Guided meditation
- Noticing thoughts, feelings & sensations
- Meditation
Take away practice
- Short check-in practice
- Journalling
- Module 3
Resilience
Session 3 introduces mindfulness as a tool to building resilience. This session looks at how to use the breath as an anchor, including
- Noticing a busy mind and returning to the breath
- How to breathe properly to reduce stress
- Counting the breath meditation
Take away practice
- Breath counting
- Journaling
- Module 4
Metacognition & Decision Making
Session 4 looks at metacognition, i.e. the ability to observe your thoughts. This introduces the distinction between participants’ thoughts and participants themselves. You are not your thoughts: you are what observes your thoughts. The practice allows for more clear-eyed and focused decision-making, by helping participants recognise the unseen drivers behind their thoughts and decisions. This session also includes the second phase of the stress response scale, as participants work through the sessions in turn. Exercises include:
- Meditation on thoughts with breath as the anchor
Take away practice
- Breath counting
- Journaling
Check-in tool: Stress response scale phase 2
- Module 5
Focus
Session 5 continues the learning from session 4 and applies it to movement and attention. Participants are introduced to the concept that ONLY attention is under our control (not thoughts, situations, etc). This understanding helps increase mindful focus and purposeful movement.
Exerises includes:
- Guided meditation on mindful movement meditation
- Moving the attention
Take away practice
- Mindful walking, or Hatha yoga
- Journaling
- Module 6
Performance & Creativity
Session 6 invites participants to practice the pause: giving our brains time to catch up, and move from reactivity to responsibility. This session focuses on making the choice about how to respond to life’s events with acceptance, non-judgement and patience. Without past experiences colouring our reactions and expectations, responses are more clear-eyed and fair, allowing for more honest actions and communications. This pause between impulse and action is fruitful ground for creativity, as it breaks established patterns to allow new thinking to blossom, and performance to change.
Exerises includes:
- Body scan
- Guided meditation on noticing thoughts, feelings, and sensations
Take away practice
- Body scan practice
- Journaling
- Module 7
Mindful Communication & Teamwork
Session 7 brings together learning from previous sessions with a focus on listening deeply and speaking honestly, to help improve communication and teamwork. and applies it to working in a team. What does it mean to pause in conversation and just listen?
Exerises includes:
Being comfortable with pausing whilst talking
Setting boundaries with others
Learning to assert yourself effectively
Erasing ambiguity with truthful and direct speech
Take away practice
Journaling
- Module 8
Mindful Actualisation
Session 8 incorporates the teachings from all previous sessions to focus on values and self-care: participants are invited to reflect on what kind of person they want to be, both personally and in the workplace. Participants are encouraged to use the check-in tool for a final look at their stress response and how this has changed throughout the course.
This session also includes:
- How to notice unhealthy coping mechanisms that may shift you away from values/who you want to be
- How to take care of yourself to avoid stress and burnout
- Meditation visualisation, to reflect on values and self-identity
- Writing exercise on key learnings and takeaways from the course
- A letter to yourself
Take away practice
- Overview of the course
- Considering own way to practice in daily life (formal / informal practices)
Check-in tool: Stress response scale phase 3
