The physical, psychological and personal demands placed on scientific staff and leaders are constantly rising. My trainings address these challenges by integrating Mindfulness and (hypno)-Systemic approaches. I would like to offer a contribution to training well-balanced and well-rounded employees and leaders of international high-performance scientific teams.
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Depending on your requirements, the tailor-made training contains
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techniques to effectively deal with stress in the scientific workplace to increase resilience,
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tools to increase focus, concentration and creativity,
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techniques to increase interpersonal skills and empathy, and
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Mindful and responsible Leadership approaches.
Benefits
With its impact on Resilience (= improved stress resistance), Mindfulness Training is an ideal tool for burn-out prevention.
Mindfulness has effects on
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Empathy and compassion
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Emotional intelligence
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Attention / concentration
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Creativity
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Self-control
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Depression and anxiety (particularly relapses)
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Immune function
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Chronic pain
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Sleep quality
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Substance abuse
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General wellbeing and happiness.
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What is Mindfulness?
The Cover of Time Magazine proclaimed a “Mindful Revolution” in 2014. In 2016, the German Zukunftsinstitut officially labelled it a megatrend.
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Mindfulness is defined as paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. Or simply put, it means knowing what is on one’s mind in a given moment (as opposed to mind-wandering).
It’s a form of brain training.
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With roots in old traditional practices and an increasing body of peer-reviewed scientific studies on the topic, Mindfulness training has been shown to have extremely positive effects on dealing with stress and may contribute to preventing and easing stress-related illness such as burn-out.
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The trainings I offer include practice in body awareness, meditation and light, physical exercise.
I have developed a set of individual trainings based on and expanded from the MBSR programme which address the difficulties experienced by those in high-performance environments.
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The trainings are tailor-made and fully secular.
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Why practise Mindfulness?
During the past 15 years working in science management, I have witnessed how the increasing competition and pressure to thrive in a high performance environment takes its toll on employees’ wellbeing and mental health. For the employer, this affects overall productivity and increases health-related costs. Like in any other demanding profession requiring extraordinary intellectual or physical effort, scientists live with very high stress levels.
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Not everyone is equally equipped to deal with these levels of stress. It therefore does not come as a surprise that cases of burn-out are becoming more known in academia and other high-level environments.
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Mindfulness can play a prominent role in preventing stress-related health issues and costs, and at the same time increase productivity, as recently successfully demonstrated by Mindfulness Trainings at SAP.