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Master Mindfulness At Work

With AJ Bicât

This 10 day course - designed to be taken during your working day - teaches the hard skill of mindfulness and emotional intelligence using neuroscientific proof as well as real world peer reviewed fact. Over the next 10 days you will learn how to slow down and pause amidst a busy working life and implement a habitual mindfulness practice into your everyday routine. The practices you will learn are framed as essential and lifelong skills, much like learning how to use programs such as Excel. While some of us may have experienced life changing moments in front of a spreadsheet, applying these practices at work will inevitably make both your work and personal life more satisfying, functional, and productive. This course is ideal for skeptics who require a more applied approach to their learning and development.

Incorporate mindfulness and emotional intelligence into your working day to enhance focus and productivity.

10 Days

2.1k students

4.3 stars

15 min / day

English

About this course

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AJ Bicât

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Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

AJ Bicât is one of the world's top corporate MEQ® instructors. He has taught in hundreds of organisations including Penguin, M&C Saatchi, Mind Candy, The Department for Work and Pensions and Cisco. AJ studied tribal and religious philosophy and psychology in Nepal, Tibet, Australia, Russia and North America. He built a 20-year career in education, film & TV working for Artburst, the London College of Contemporary Arts, Buena Vista International, BBC TV, Paramount and Channel 4 as a teacher, actor, director and writer. On returning to the UK he became a CFM Qualified MBSR™ Facilitator and meets the UK Mindfulness Network’s good practice guidelines.

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10 Days

2.1k students

4.3 stars

15 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Introduction

In today's lesson you will discover the origins of mindfulness and emotional intelligence and how it has been used in the scientific field to benefit millions worldwide. Start a journey of discovery to find your own rationale and terminology so you can personalise your own mindfulness practice. Today, you will make an informal contract with yourself to practice every weekday and learn a simple, short formal practice.

Lesson 2

Making Time

Many people suffer from a perceived inability to make time for their ‘mental workout’ eg. “I don’t have time to meditate.” In today's lesson we use a simple exercise to reorganise your working day, reset your circadian rhythm and make your mindfulness practice as much a part of your daily routine as brushing your teeth.

Lesson 3

The Seven Tenets Of Mindfulness

In order to understand your exploration of mindfulness and emotional intelligence more deeply we learn the seven basic founding blocks of mindfulness. Observing these corner stones while you work and play, allows your self-awareness to flourish so you can apply your newly found emotional intelligence with greater consistency.

Lesson 4

The Triune Brain

As you start to feel the benefits of your daily practice and see changes begin to happen in your behaviour you will become increasingly interested in how these things occur through mindfulness. The model of the Triune Brain is an excellent way to grasp what is going on in your head when you practice mindfulness.

Lesson 5

Neuroplasticity

This practice is ideal for those who are skeptical of mindfulness practice. In this lesson you will be gently walked through an image of four fMRI scans showing the changes in neurosynaptic pathways in the human brain after eight weeks of consistent daily practice. We also review the research of Professor Eleanor Maguire at University College London measuring the hippocampus of London’s famous ‘black cab’ drivers.

Lesson 6

Digital Distraction

For those with busy minds or those who find it difficult to sleep, this practice teaches a new formal practice that shows you how to quieten your dorsal and ventral medial pre-frontal cortexes. We also explore, demystify and myth-bust sleep so that you can have a more relaxed and scientifically rounded approach to your unconscious life and learn how to master your digital devices.

Lesson 7

The Body Scan

As a means of deepening and accelerating your introspective journey we learn the most widely used formal MEQ (mindfulness and emotional intelligence) practice. The entire module is dedicated to this practice. From this point onwards your personal commitment changes to include a greater length of daily practice.

Lesson 8

Resilience

Emotional homeostasis (also referred to as emotional intelligence) is the bedrock of workplace operational ability. Together, we will explore the stillness which exists in all of us and explain how we can tap into this innate power during our working day and use it to better approach any challenge no matter how stressful.

Lesson 9

Communications

The mindfulness and emotional intelligence practices we have learnt change our approach to communication in general, but what about the internal process we all go through while listening? In today's practice we take apart the process of ‘mindful listening’ and you will learn how to trust your entire physical intuitive response and use it to encourage judicious communication in yourself and others.

Lesson 10

Conflict Resolution

This final module seeks to set out the ways in which you can take your newfound MEQ techniques further, both personally and in the work place. This lesson will teach you how to practice and perfect leading the Pause meditation practice, how to resolve conflicts in the office and how to adapt and learn to work with particularly ‘difficult’ colleagues.