The General Process
All trainings are customized to address the unique organizational development goals of each organization, its people, and culture. The process involves:
Planning
- Understanding the organization and industry
- Defining program goals
- Individual assessments (optional)
- Research
Design and Delivery
- Designing program outline
- Getting feedback on outline
- Design and delivery of full program with right mix of multi-media
- Creating a safe and inviting environment for the program
Post Program
- Post program measurement (optional)
- Post program report including suggestions for sustaining the benefits on an ongoing basis (optional)
All programs are based on evidence-based methodology in the three mindfulness trainings and latest research in management sciences. Read below for more information on the three mindfulness trainings and the transformation process.
Why The Three Mindfulness Trainings
“If we can deeply understand the power of mind, how we can both injure and benefit this world, we see that practice isn’t a luxury, but rather an imperative. It’s like food and water. It returns us to ourselves, to our sanity, to our true capacity.”
~ Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, the abbot of Zen Center of New York City
Our thoughts, words, and actions originate in our minds.
47%
Almost 50% of the time, the mind wanders away from task at hand.
Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010
If we want to change how we think, relate, and create, we need to first know our minds.
Mind is an embodied and relational process that regulates energy and information. (Dr. Dan Siegel, author of Mind)
The mind includes thoughts, emotions, perceptions, judgments, and volition. In traditional mindfulness texts, it is thought of as heart-mind. Most importantly, use the trainings below to know your mind from your own experience.
95%
of daily decisions are made unconsciously.
Bargh & Chartrand, 1999
In the absence of awareness, our minds dictate our thoughts, feelings, and behavior based on past conditioning.
For example, we are distracted from our task almost 50% of the time. What if you knew that only 5% of your daily decisions are made consciously and 70% of self talk is negative?
By bringing awareness to our mind’s contents and patterns, we gain choice and mastery over our minds.
Mindfulness is the ability to see clearly the contents of our minds, free from getting lost in our habitual reactivity.
Mindful awareness alone is not enough to bring change.
70%
Up to 70% of daily thoughts are negative.
Raj Raghunathan, 2015
The 3 Mindfulness Trainings provide a foundation for systemic and sustainable change, at individual and collective levels.
The Three Mindfulness Trainings
Our thoughts, words, and actions originate in our minds.
47%
Almost 50% of time, mind wanders away from task at hand.
Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010
If we want to change how we think, relate, and create, we need to first know our minds.
Mind is an embodied and relational process that regulates energy and information. (Dr. Dan Siegel, author of Mind)
The mind includes thoughts, emotions, perceptions, judgments, and volition. In traditional mindfulness texts, it is thought of as heart-mind. Most importantly, use the trainings below to know your mind from your own experience.
In the absence of awareness, our minds dictate our thoughts, feelings, and behavior based on past conditioning.
95%
of daily decisions made unconsciously.
Bargh & Chartrand, 1999
By bringing awareness to our mind’s contents, we can choose how to respond.
Mindfulness is the ability to see clearly the contents of our minds, free from getting lost in our habitual reactivity.
Mindful awareness alone is not enough to bring change.
70%
Up to 70% of daily thoughts are negative.
Raj Raghunathan, 2015
The 3 Mindfulness Trainings provide a foundation for systemic and sustainable change, at individual and collective levels.
The Three Mindfulness Trainings
FIRST TRAINING
Attention Training
(traditionally known as Samadhi or meditation)
This training develops the mind and its ability to direct attention where you want it to go. It involves:
- Ability to give attention to what is important in the present moment.
- Maintaining attention with an attitude that is non-judgmental, relaxed, and free from attachments to particular outcomes
- Attention can be narrow on a single object or broadly scanning the inner and outer landscape
SECOND TRAINING
Insight Training
(traditionally known as Panna or wisdom)
This training develops the ability to gain a broader and deeper perspective about the situation you are looking at. It involves:
- Clear seeing of what is going on beyond concepts and habitual responses.
- Clarity of causes and conditions leading to desirable outcomes.
- Clarity of intentions.
THIRD TRAINING
Skillful Actions
(traditionally known as Sila or discipline)
This training develops skillful habits that create the right conditions for you to thrive and reach your goals. It involves:
- Cultivating thoughts and thinking processes that support your goals
- Cultivating the ability to listen deeply and speak in a manner that is timely, honest, kind, beneficial for all involved, and aligned with your intentions.
- Cultivating habits of taking action in a way that is consistent with your goals.
The Eight Mindfulness Skills
Awareness
Awareness is the ability to observe the occurrences of the outer and inner world, which includes thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and all other phenomena. This knowingness is effortless and non-judgmental.
Compassion
Compassion is the ability to see different perspectives, feel, and have a motivation to ease the difficulty in others and within oneself.
Curiosity
Curiosity is a relaxed and alert interest in our immediate experience. It involves questioning our habitual thoughts and seeing others perspectives, even when different from ours. It involves entertaining possibilities as well as the ability to stay open to the direct experience of what is going on beyond conceptual thinking.
Energy
Energy is a combination of strength, vigor, vitality, right effort, perseverance, and courage. The most straightforward meaning of energy is the capacity for activity and accomplishment. Further, it’s about the right balance of energy directed toward appropriate action.
Appreciative Joy
Appreciative joy is the state of being that is naturally good, bright, and boundless. In a state of appreciative joy, you experience an expansive sense of well being that is inclusive of all others. It is a state of natural appreciation for all beings and situations that have given you the opportunity to deepen your experience of being human.
Inner Calm
Inner calm is more than feeling relaxed. Calm is serenity and a neutral state in the mind and body. Inner calm helps us heal, feel settled, and unwind while also helping us to see with clarity.
Focus
Mindful focus refers to one-pointedness and unscattered attention in our meditation and lives. It is a unification of the mind, as you gather and integrate all streams of energy in the mind and body into being fully present.
Balance
Balance is an evenness of mind or unshakeable balance of mind. It seeks to prevent excess and deficiency of other mindfulness skills. It allows us to keep an open mind and heart in the middle of it all. This is the ultimate mindfulness skill that all mindfulness training is leading us to, which enables us to see the bigger picture and act from a place of clarity.
The Transformation Process
The three mindfulness trainings cultivate the 8 mindful qualities in the mind to support transformation from reactive behaviors to thoughtful choice and skillful actions.
