Mindfulness is proving to be a competitive advantage with employees and teams. Studies prove the positive impact of regular meditation on executive skills such as emotional regulation, attention, lateral thinking and problem solving.
Stress Management is one of the greatest challenges for work teams and individuals in the workplace. 24/7 accessibility, travel, information overload across digital platforms, all contribute to prolonged tension, poor sleep patterns and team fractures. Stress and absenteeism is costing businesses billions every year.
Companies such as Google, Facebook and Nike now embrace ‘Mindful Leadership’ as the most powerful approach to unleashing productivity, performance, resilience and innovation. Mindfulness sessions are sold out at the World Economic Forums.
High profile CEOs such as Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn), Bill Ford (Ford), Michael Rennie (McKinsey) have been very vocal and passionate about the power of mindfulness for success and their personal practice. And publications such as the New York Times, TIME magazine and the Financial Times have all done cover stories on the power of mindfulness to improve productivity and performance.
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The Mindfulness Revolution – what’s all the fuss about?
Politicians, celebrities and Fortune 500 CEOs are all coming out as ‘avid’ meditators these days. Times Magazine in 2015 coined the movement ‘The Mindfulness Revolution’. This workshop explores what all the fuss is about. We go back to basics – what is meditation and mindfulness? Is there a difference? What is the most current research saying about its effects on mind, body and emotional health? Can anyone do it? How do you get started?
Messages from the Heart
Paulo Coelho’s beautiful quote:
“ You will never be able to escape your heart, so you may as well listen to what it has to say…” raises a lot of lovely questions about the true nature of the human heart.
In ‘Messages from the Heart’ workshop we discuss what recent research has uncovered about the miracle of the human heart, its vibrational nature and its intelligence. We will chat about how the heart responds physically and energetically to heart-based meditation techniques and we will practice a beautiful heart-based meditation (incorporating visualization, breath work and vibrational sound) to close.
Breath and the Brain
Eastern traditions identify the breath as ‘the bridge’ to our inner landscape and the means to taming the mind and coming into the present moment. The breath is the only function of the autonomic nervous system that we can control. When we are stressed or not mindful, our breath becomes shallow and quick. Placing our full concentrated awareness onto the act of breathing is called ‘mindful-breathing’. Mindful breathing naturally produces deeper inhalations and longer exhalations and triggers a change in brainwave activity. We now know that regular meditators have better memory and recall functions, mental clarity and concentration for mental and physical tasks, creative and inspired thinking, insight and problem solving – a calm brain is an efficient brain.
This talk explores the link between the breath and the brain and how regular meditation can not only increase cognitive function and memory recall but actually changes the physical structure of our brains in the areas that make a huge positive difference to our lives.
The Intelligent Body
This workshop explores the three main intelligence centres of the body – the head-brain, heart-brain and brain in the belly and how our locum of command is actually not in the head-brain. We will look at how the other intelligence systems of the body act and communicate, and experience a series of visualisation practices to acknowledge these centres and connect with our inner wisdom.
How to Breathe
In this workshop we explore the ancient techniques of Pranayama and how they are proving to directly impact brainwave activity and function, synchronisation in the central nervous system and vitality.
Raising Resonance – the vibration of consciousness
What is resonance? How does it serve us? How does it affect others? What behaviours and influences deplete our resonant field? And how can we raise our resonance through our bodies and our minds? This fascinating workshop explores the energetic field of the mind/body system and how it can be accessed and utilized through meditation.
Breath, Brains and Beauty
There’s a surprising link between beauty and brains. Our Western culture (sadly and oh so wrongly) has traditionally presented these two attributes as almost mutually exclusive in a woman…however they are inextricably linked. The top ten foods that promote cognitive function and brain health are also the top ten foods for radiant skin, hair and vitality. The top four elements that erode brain function also erode beauty and radiance…the terrible Ts: Tension, Tiredness, Toxins, and Time… In this workshop we discuss recent research that shows how meditation, specifically mindful breathing, tackles the terrible Ts head-on – restoring mental balance and clarity, recall and cognitive function as well as revitalising physical radiance…yes….it can even slow the effects of passing time!!
Gut Feel and Tummy-Love
What is the physiology of ‘gut-feel’? Why do so many people feel disconnected to it? How can meditation reconnect you to your inner wisdom and nurture love for your tummy? This workshop explores the intelligence of the Enteric Nervous System and why it is so responsive to meditation techniques.
Circuit-breaking Stress through Mindfulness
This workshop explores the physiological and psychological impact of prolonged stress, signs to look for and how mindfulness meditation can create effective circuit-breakers to the overload/stress/override cycle. Participants will be led through two mindfulness practices aimed at calming and balancing brainwave activity, synchronizing the nervous system and calming the stress response.
Mindful Leadership
What is consciousness and conscious leadership? This workshop explores the latest commentary from world experts in how fostering the techniques of mindfulness within organizational leadership enables workplaces to tap their collective capability, intuitive intelligence and lateral problem-solving abilities through greater presence, observation and working with ‘the third space’.
Creativity and Meditation
When we meditate the brain functions in different ways. Regular meditators are more able to switch from their left-brain and right-brain depending on the task at hand. In other words meditation brings together the intuitive and logical minds. In this workshop we will look at the changes in brain activity during meditation that enable greater creativity, lateral thinking and problem solving, and how this can carry over into day to day life.
Can meditating make you fitter?
There are specific meditation techniques that are proven to provide numerous benefits to athletes including reduced stress and anxiety before performance, enhanced motor reflexes, increase motor control, increased exercise tolerance and sharpened perceptions and concentration. Studies show that meditators have a maximal cardiac workload as compared to non-meditators. In this workshop we will look at the specific meditation techniques that have a direct impact on your fitness and your game.
Mind and Matter
We hear the term ‘mind over matter’ often – but what is the relationship between what we think and believe and our physical form. This workshop draws from the latest research in epigenetics and cellular-biology to present a very different view of the mind/body system and how we can engage with it through meditative intention.
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The cognitive, emotional and physiological benefits that meditation brings, are powerful enablers for the student. Regular meditation is proven to enhance recall and memory, our ability to accept new paradigms and concepts, solve problems, bring coherence to intuitive and logical aspects of the mind, aid sleep and restoration.
Meditation is a proven enabler in underprivileged schools and for troubled students around the world and is now accepted as a key practice in building resilience in children and teens.
More and more meditation and mindfulness practices are being incorporated into home room and student enhancement activities.
I have had the privilege of delivering talks, workshops and courses to some of Singapore’s most progressive International schools and tertiary institutions. My focus is on mid to senior level students who are requiring self-mastery skills to navigate the heightened pressure of senior level studies, performance, making life choices and broadening relational fields in their lives.
I also focus on teacher and school administration team programs to assist the ‘school mechanism’ to operate in responsive and expansive ways to the needs of their communities; and also to empower teachers to lead meditation and mindfulness activities with their students.
All programs are focussed on easy accessible practices that are proven to be effective for the teenage system and for students new to meditation practice and backed by current research and statistics. They are experiential and notes can be provided. Practices include simple breathwork techniques, EFT and somatic meditations, as well as creative visualisation techniques to envisage and feel into success.
The Sneaky Signs of Stress
Stress triggers of today’s teenage students; how they present and when is it time to act? Techniques to circuit-break prolonged stress responses
Heart-Centered School Life
Mindfulness and relationships. A new way to view the teenage/school relational field. Typical signs of emotional stress and how to work with them.
Brain Juice
Some lesser well known facts about the brain, study, information retention and problem solving. The importance of sleep, diet, exercise and non-activity windows as lifeward habits to cultivate for maximum performance.
Sleepy Head
The science of sleep. How much is optimal for healthy body and mind? What are some clever hacks to improve ability to fall asleep and stay asleep. Simple meditations to cultivate healthy sleep patterns. How to interpret dreams.
Teacher Community
Teachers as a key organisational ‘asset class’. Current statistics on teacher burnout and reasons why. Meditation techniques to mitigate burn-out and improve community relationships between school structure, families, other teachers and students.
If you’re looking for a specific topic or tailored workshop, please contact Dani.
Topics of meditation, mindfulness and inner enquiry make for wonderful keynote talks and ice-breakers for functions. I have delivered talks and webinars for numerous industry events that range from wellbeing festivals, to luxury travel symposiums, to product launches.
If you would like to bring a unique experience to your industry event, get in touch.
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