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Mindfulness and Other Brain-based Neuroleadership Tools Help Leaders Stay Calm





You want to stay calm, no matter what. The Calm Leader programs use mindfulness to eliminate distractions and focus your mind. Being aware helps you handle difficult people, complete projects on time and develop a more effective leadership style.


The Problem: Overreacting, Judging and Staying Upset

How do you react to irritating situations and people?

Most leaders tend to get either angry or anxious.

Staying calm physically, mentally, emotionally and behaviorally is a challenge in today’s fast-paced world. If you’ve ever felt tense, been suspicious of or angry at your boss, or yelled at an employee, you’re normal.

But, is that how you want to work on a day-to-day basis?


What Leaders Want: To Stay Calm

Work often feels like a long, scary roller coaster.

Instead of white-knuckling the highs and lows of a busy day, challenging month or difficult year, what you really want is to stay cool and composed. You don’t want to appear flat line or lifeless. You just don’t want to run around looking like a chicken with its head cut off.

Just like the leaders I’ve helped through the Mind to Lead retreats, the Calm Leader programs can help you:

  • Understand why your brain reacts to certain work situations and people with anger or anxiety
  • Relax your body so that you no longer experience a knot in your stomach, rapid heartbeat, or feelings of nausea when disagreeing with someone
  • Practice staying neutral instead of losing your temper
  • Regain your mental focus and concentration at work
  • Develop habits for getting things done
  • Build more balance in your life so that you’re not working so many hours
  • Learn and practice simple techniques that take less than 30 seconds to calm your mind and body throughout the workday
  • Develop a more relaxed personality at work
  • Cultivate neutral awareness as a leader, particularly in times of extreme change or stress



How Do You Get There?

A Calm Leader uses the power of Mindfulness to stay composed in difficult situations.

Mindfulness is moment-to-moment, neutral awareness. This awareness lets the body relax rather than be tense. It helps the mind be curious, open and accepting rather than judgmental, closed and angry. Awareness allows the mind to focus on the present moment, so that it’s not distracted by the past or future.

There’s plenty of research on the general benefits of mindfulness or Mindful Awareness (MA). The original research on MA was done by Jon Kabat-Zinn through the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.

Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues showed that patients who were no longer being helped by conventional medicine were aided by MBSR training. The patients experienced:

  • Reduced subjective states of suffering
  • Improved immune function
  • Accelerated rates of healing
  • Improved interpersonal relationships (Davidson et al, 2003)

Over the last thirty years, MBSR has been used in hundreds of programs around the world. Research on MBSR and other forms of MA in medical, mental health, and workplace settings has demonstrated its value for a wide variety of populations.

The three strongest benefits that people develop through the Calm Leader programs are:

  • Nonreactivity to your inner experience
  • Nonjudging of outer experience
  • Acting with awareness


Learn More about Calm, Confident Power

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