How To Become a Mindful Leader In Ten Days

My name is Jane Murray and I am the CEO of Peacebeam and the author and voice of many of our guided meditations and audio courses. I am also a lawyer, a serial entrepreneur, and was the Managing Director of a $100m Venture Capital Fund for 20 years. I have worked with companies large and small throughout my career as employee, director, founder, and investor and have been coaching, mentoring, and advising leaders for two decades. During that time I have observed that the leaders who emerge as real change makers, those who are deeply connected to their unique brand of power, whether as company founders or team leaders, are the ones who are willing to do the intense work of gathering self-knowledge. We live in a culture that promotes positivity and self-improvement and whilst these are attractive aims, I have found that without the context of one’s own shadow material and agendas, they can be confusing and misleading and, ultimately, disempowering as they tend to lead us away from a full knowledge of self. In my experience, self-knowledge is the ground from which our leadership ability grows. When we know ourselves, warts and all, and we accept all parts of ourselves, we can know and accept others and therefore lead with the compassion, humility, and insight that gives authority to power and therefore, extraordinary possibility from leadership. This course gives you practical means to develop self-knowledge, self-enquiry, and crucially, the ways in which you can use it to develop as a mindful leader. This 10-day course is for anybody in a leadership position, whether leading a team, a group, a company, a project, a movement or a charity. If you want to grow in your role as leader, deepen in your relationship to yourself and therefore to others, explore your relationship to power and authority and learn how to bring mindfulness to every aspect of leadership, this course is for you. You will need a pen and notebook throughout the sessions, which are a combination of lecture, meditation, visualisation, and writing. During the course, I also invite you to engage in a daily examination and reflective practice in your own time.