Mindful Presence agrees to provide professional development, coursework, and mindfulness training skills for individuals and groups that will focus on the development of creating mindful managers, supervisors and employees. Training and groups will work on core competencies of self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and the ability to manage relationships.

• Create stronger influencers, who are more emotionally stable and self-aware to make the right decisions for the firm
• Attracting talent; creating a culture that is known to be the best in the industry
• Adaptation to rapid industry change
• Support employees during pandemic with stress reduction/emotional wellbeing mindfulness based remote sessions.
• Manage biases and emotions in volatile markets and increasing client demands
• Focus on areas where there is conflict.

SAMPLE OF EI TRAINING AND CONTENT DELIVERED:
Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness: Recognizing and Managing Emotions for Managers and Supervisors
Mindfulness training is the foundation of emotional intelligence and affects every emotional and social intelligence leadership competency. These competencies are self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and the ability to manage relationships. They are essential for creating mindful managers, supervisors and leaders. Learn mindful meditation exercises to build emotional intelligence through self-awareness, emotional regulation, and concentration practices. Mindfulness training can increase emotional intelligence through attention and awareness training and by managing stress. This training will cover the chief components of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill. It will be an interactive course that will begin with an in-depth overview of mindfulness and how it leads to better performance, focus, and management capabilities.

A consistent daily mindfulness meditation practice is essential to make change in the way one manages and leads. These practices work best when you have practiced them regularly. Unless these methods have become a strong habit of the mind, you can’t call upon immediately when needed. Attending sessions weekly help to instill a consistent practice and gives mangers time to reflect on their experience weekly.
Suggested Reading:
“Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication” by Oren Jay Sofer
“Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ” by Daniel Goldman “Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and
Body” by Daniel Goldman and Richard J. Davidson
Week 1:
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation and the Science Behind It – Noticing what the mind is made up of and developing self-awareness. Mindfulness leads to more pro-social behavior, fosters greater care for others, thereby affecting management styles. Deeply ingrained management styles are uprooted when held in awareness thereby increasing efficiency and performance.
Week 2:
What is Emotional Intelligence: Self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, empathy, social skill/relationship management. Learn to recognize different thoughts and feelings and see how they are affecting performance. Self-Regulation is a key ability of emotional intelligence. By quieting the amygdala one stays connected to executive function centers and the mind remains flexible. It allows one to see destructive emotions as they build and incorporate tools to intercept them. If we can’t manage ourselves, we cannot manage others.
Week 3:
Working with the Inner Critic: We all have an inner critic that judges and tells us a list of “shoulds” on a daily basis. It is part of us. Learn techniques on how to relate to your inner critic mindfully without engaging or feeding the voice within. Mindfulness practice allows us to disengage from self-defeating narrative so we can get out of our own way, stay motivated and motivate others. It reduces activity in the part of the brain associated with a critical mind. Through practice you will be able to keep the inner critic at bay so that you can see things clearly and not go into reaction when managing others.
Week 4:
Communication: Cultivate Verbal and Non-Verbal Skills
Learn techniques to listen to what is being communicated to increase understanding and improve interactions among colleagues and team members. Create positive relationships by encourage listening, and not reacting, to what is being communicated. There will be a strong focus on practices that cultivate empathy. Empathy is a critical skill that allows managers and supervisors to listen well and understand the view point of others as well as cultivating greater acceptance of those you manage. Removing the management barriers by dissolving a sense of self- orientation versus other-orientation. Time will also be spent integrating the previous three sessions.
Journaling will be required to log your reactions and responses to certain situations and to note when emotions are disrupting your daily activities/performance or disrupting your interactions with others. You will also be recording your storylines and where biases are held around others.