Are you looking for:

Ways to help you grow, change and become a more successful leader?
An understanding of what makes you successful and what holds you back?
A process that helps you take personal and emotional awareness to the next step?
A greater sense of meaning and satisfaction at work?
Ways to change ineffective habits, other than controlling or forcing?
A way to set meaningful personal development goals and achieve them?
More energy and less stress in your working life?

What is Mindful Leadership

Mindful Leadership is a program designed to enhance personal insight and performance, by adopting mindfulness techniques such as:

Identifying and letting go of psychological patterns that inhibit performance
Understanding values and their motives, and using them as the basis for leadership action
Being fully present in the moment
Being accepting of self, others and circumstances as a process of learning rather than responding to emotional patterns
Responding clearly, purposefully and effectively
Committing to personal development goals and taking effective action
Maintaining ongoing self awareness and presence

How Has It Been Developed?

Mindful Leadership is based on Dr John Wood’s 30 years corporate experience in the field of leadership development, extensive research and study of leadership success, and personal change and transformation techniques from proven approaches, including Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness, Integral Theory, and Shadow Work. In addition to these techniques, John has developed innovative practices including The Pattern ©, The Leadership Values Development Experience © and The 5 Mindful Practices ©.

What Topics Are Covered?

The key skills of Mindful Leadership include:

Defusion – the ability to ‘let go’ of unhelpful thoughts and patterns
Acceptance of self, others and circumstances – rather than fighting and struggling
Being in the present moment – rather than scattered and unfocussed
Acting from values – creating a meaningful and satisfying approach to leadership
Self awareness – seeing self as context rather than content
Taking committed action – based on personal values that facilitate meaningful change

The 5 Mindful Practices ©

Participants will identify:

Patterns that create and inhibit success (The Pattern ©)
Leadership and life values that are personally meaningful (The Leadership Values Development Experience ©), the motives for their values and whether they contribute to success or not
Shadow projections that affect interpersonal relationships
Personal goals based on an innovative personal change process

Mindful Leadership Course Design

Mindful Leadership can be facilitated as a stand alone program or adapted to existing leadership development programs that have an emphasis on personal development and self awareness, 360o feedback and coaching.

Mindful Leadership is offered as a:

1 Day Workshop – an introduction to the skills of Mindful Leadership

3 Day Workshop – a full program of mindful leadership skills and experiential exercises including; mindful techniques, values development, patterns that create and undermine success, innovative personal goal setting and an introduction to shadow work

5 Day Retreat – designed to suit a live-in retreat where in a relaxed reflective setting, participants fully explore and practice mindful leadership skills and techniques, as well as immersing themselves deeper in practices such as, investigating their life purpose and understanding shadow work and its application in leadership settings

Custom designed applications to suit existing programs or business needs, including the additional components of coaching, open feedback forums and e-journaling are available

Further Information

For further information, or to discuss a program, please contact:

John Wood
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