Attention training is fundamental to developing leadership in business on 4 levels:
- Manage self: my vitality/balance
- Lead self: my attention/performance
- Lead others/together: build trust as leader/team
- Lead change
So where to start to bring your employees, team or managers to the next level?
Scroll down to read our 4 needs profiles. Click on the one that resonates most. This will bring you to the corresponding key program page. There you will see a menu: the key program + intro workshops to test interest for this program in your organisation. We know mindfulness is sensitive to introduce, so we adapt our language and customize programs.
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Find vitality, balance & resilience
Corporate Mindfulness Program
Fundamentals – Co-Design your step by step program with us The 4 key program elements below lay the foundations for Mindfulness in your business. Contact us to explore the best step by step program design suited to your needs Mindfulness is often considered only as a wellness tool to help employees increase vitality and balance at work. But it’s concrete value applied to business context is much broader. Mindfulness trains fundamental attention skills enabling personal Resilience, Peak Performance; Building Trust when practiced in Teams and develops a truly Agile Mindset for Change. In the workshop the following aspects will be highlighted: What is the Mindfulness Foundations Program? Demystifying Mindfulness introducing Neuro-scientific background. And more specifically: what is the applied value of the Mindfulness Foundations Program for Vitality, Resilience, and Personal Leadership at Work? With Brief Mindfulness exercises woven into the session. General introduction to the Mindfulness Foundations Program and it’s benefits for people and business. Highlighting neuroscience and the rationale for allowing employees to practice Mindfulness at work. Understanding what to expect and how employees and managers can integrate mindfulness based ways of working. Goal of this training: Develop Personal Leadership in managing own energy, boundaries & balance at work (home will thank you for it). Mindfulness is not a relaxation tool. Mindfulness training is an awareness training. Daily practice builds awareness of our personal stress reaction: when and why it gets triggered and what our automated patterns of reactivity are. Rooted in Neuroscience, this training helps participants to start to recognise when functional stress (=adrenaline to boost performance) spills over into dysfunctional stress and how this phenomena affects body, mind, mood, balance & effectiveness at work. In 8 sessions + daily home practice (commitment needed!) people learn how to recognise and manage their energy and boundaries. They start to see through stress triggers, automatic patterns of reactivity and learn how to give a flexible response under pressure. · Eur: 4950,- Goal: Embed Mindfulness lessons learned and practices into the organization. A practical guide to apply Mindfulness @work. Is needed in combination with Senior Manager workshop to create understanding, buy-in and subscribe to the ‘Support Manifesto’. Toolkit includes: Eur: 1500,- Optional add-on: Train up internal ambassadors to Cost dependent on # ambassadors and needs.
Learn to act from presence & purpose
Attention training program
Peak Performance – Co-Design Attention Training into your L&D with us The 4 key program elements below weave Attention Training into L&D to unlock full potential. Contact us to explore the best step by step program design suited to your needs Strong Attention Skills are fundamental to personal Resilience; Peak Performance; Building Trust when practiced in Teams and developing a truly Agile Mindset for Change. In the workshop the following aspects will be highlighted: What is the Attention Training Accelerator Program? Introducing it’s Neuro-scientific background. Understanding the applied value of the Attention Training Accelerator Program to Peak Performance & Unlocking the full potential of existing L&D/MD trajectories. With Brief Mindfulness exercises woven into the session. General introduction to the Attention Training Accelerator Program and its benefits for employees, L&D/MD and Peak Performing Business. Highlighting neuroscience and the rationale for allowing employees to train the attention at work. Understanding what to expect and how employees and managers can integrate Attention Training based ways of working. This Masterclass gives insight in the value of Attention Training as a fundamental part of L&D and MD to unlock full potential of people and organisation. Together with you we Co-Create a step by approach to begin weaving Attention Training into L&D and MD and streamline different existing Mindfulness activities into 1 approach (e.g. integrate Mindfulness in vitality programs with L&D / MD & Org. Change Attention Training aspects) Attention Training Modular Program woven into existing L&D / MD trajectories. The Program consists of 6 modules addressing the 6 aspects of Attention and how to train them all for Peak Performance. In addition the course provides key insight into the Neuroscience showing the ‘addictive’ component to multitasking and relentless goal orientedness (dopamine/adrenaline) and how to take Personal Leadership over these tendencies to reach real Peak Performance: The 6 modules are taken in sequence, over the course of 1 L&D/MD trajectory, with home practice in between. Practical details:
Build team trust
Connective communication team building day(s)
Build Trust culture as a team/leader – Co-Design your approach with us The 5 key program elements work towards a sustainable shift to fostering Trust & Diversity. Contact us to explore the best step by step program design suited to your needs This 0,5 day workshop helps teams appreciate diversity in perspectives, communication styles and backgrounds. As a team you learn to leverage the friction that can arise from diversity as a source for Growth; Bonding and Trust. We prepare the workshop tailored to your specific team needs. Starting point can be (an already taken MBTI, Insights discovery) team role test and learning how to really work with the results. Possible elements: Team Roles. Mindful Listening. Non Violent (Mindful) Communication. Effective Team Meeting role-play. Identifying team development needs for the 2 day team journey offsite. Unplug and reconnect as a team. Two days off-site with focus on building psychological safety, trust and leverage diversity as a team. We invite you to find the space for a deeper level of relating & communicating. Away from the daily stressors and distractors, we train you to develop more awareness & insight into personal and collective patterns of behaviour. We prepare the program tailored to your specific team needs. In 2 days we cover elements of Stress Management; Personal Leadership; Mindful Listening; Non Violent (Mindful) Communication skills & Team Meeting Dynamics using techniques like Deep Democracy. When desired, these days can include working on an actual Change/Innovation case using World Café and Uprocess. (See also: Leadership Team Change Journey) Making a shift from Command Control to Trust based leadership In this current, fast changing world where insecurity and complexity are continuous drivers, alienation is a risk. Our natural reflex: to grasp for control and analysis. Important question: what responsibility do we have and take ourselves? This masterclass gives insight in the conscious and unconscious triggers driving your behaviour. With neuroscience as a scientific basis. It provides you with a chance to experience the choices you have. A shift from alienation to reconnection with yourself and the environment. Acting with authenticity, from your purpose. Taking responsibility through Personal Leadership. Finding the space to Lead for Change in complex dynamic environments The current VUCA world needs a new type of leader: People who are able to guide and inspire. Leaders who – despite high pressure – can create space in their minds and hearts to fully open to what is needed in each new moment – with an eye on the long term. Courageous leaders who can let go of the need for certainty and predictability. Leaders who can create a culture of trust: a safe space for themselves and others to embrace diversity, experiment, make mistakes and try again. People who can lead the shift towards People, Planet, Profit, Purpose. At the basis of all this lies a strong, stable, perceptive attention ‘muscle’: trainable via Mindfulness, backed by neuroscience. This 10 session (individual or group) program trains leaders to create space to lead themselves, others and lead change with open mind, open heart and open will (using Uprocess). From alienation to reconnection In this current, fast changing world where insecurity and complexity are continuous drivers, alienation is a risk. Our natural reflex is to grasp for control and analyse. Important question: what responsibility do we have and take ourselves? The retreat gives you a chance to explore the conscious and unconscious triggers driving your behaviour. It provides you with a chance to experience what choices you have. A shift from alienation to reconnection with yourself and the environment. To be able to act (again) with authenticity, from your purpose. Re-energised.
Manage collective system change
Change journey(s)
Realise transformational system change – Co-Design your approach with us 2 small program elements work towards the key facilitated change year program. In parallel training for agile mindset is key to make the shift. Contact us to explore your best first step. Insights in the integral approach to disruptive change and innovation (Uprocess) for People, Planet, Purpose and the importance of training agile mindsets. Unplug and connect to your collective (new) Purpose or disruptive change/innovation question. With the shared responsibility of People, Planet, Purpose as a guidance. · Investment: 5000 euro (based on 2 trainers. Excluding travel- and location costs). 6x 1-2 day modules that build on each other over the course of ±1 year depending on client pace. In Between sessions there are essential assignments for the company to take on. Goal: Map system and stakeholders, identify system representatives & define approach to start. Assignment: Invite system representatives for Convening Day. Goal: Bring together system representatives. Lower barriers of Silos; Hierarchy & conditioned Mind. Assignment: System mapping, ‘Shadowing’ participants for a workday & stakeholder interviews. Goal: Build a trust container. Opening the Heart from personal like/dislikes to diversity & inclusion Assignment: Co-sensing journey in subgroups to enhance awareness of all stakeholder perspectives 4. Presencing silent retreat: 2 day Goal: Digesting insights of assignments, connecting to source and the emerging future 5. Crystallizing: 1 day Goal: Crystallizing new vision, Purpose and start outlining tangible & intangible aspects of the new. Assignment: continue crystallisation process in company. 6. Prototyping: 1 day Goal: start identifying and building a prototype of the new system. Defining first experiments. Assignment: continue prototyping process in company. 7. Co-evolving: 1 day Goal: Identifying ‘what does not serve’ and practicing honesty, vulnerability and letting go of invested efforts. Even when under pressure to deliver results. Finding the space to Lead for Change in complex dynamic environments The current VUCA world needs a new type of leader: People who are able to guide and inspire. Leaders who – despite high pressure – can create space in their minds and hearts to fully open to what is needed in each new moment – with an eye on the long term. Courageous leaders who can let go of the need for certainty and predictability. Leaders who can create a culture of trust: a safe space for themselves and others to embrace diversity, experiment, make mistakes and try again. People who can lead the shift towards People, Planet, Profit, Purpose. At the basis of all this lies a strong, stable, perceptive attention ‘muscle’: trainable via Mindfulness, backed by neuroscience. This 10 session (individual or group) program trains leaders to create space to lead themselves, others and lead change with open mind, open heart and open will (using Uprocess).
