TNG Meeting - Mindful Leadership

Michael Chaskalson is one of the world's foremost proponents of the use of mindfulness in workplace settings. He has a masters degree with distinction in the clinical applications of mindfulness and more than thirty-five years of personal practice of mindfulness and related disciplines. Michael has delivered mindfulness training to groups and senior individuals in a wide range of organisations around the world - banks and financial services organisations, professional services firms, media companies, construction companies, the NHS, the civil service and several leading business schools.

Michael is an honorary lecturer at Bangor University, where he teaches a module on the part time masters degree that is run by the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice in the School of Psychology.

Michael's work is deeply informed by his own mindfulness practice and his knowledge of the contemporary research - including cutting-edge neuroscience research - into the use of mindfulness in a wide variety of contexts. He has designed a Mindfulness for Leaders programme and a Mindfulness for Coaches course, both of which are delivered by his company - Mindfulness Works Ltd.. His book, “The Mindful Workplace”, was published by Wiley-Blackwell in August and he is currently co-writing a chapter entitled “Mindful Leadership” for the Wiley Handbook of Organisational Psychology.

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE - THIS IS SO THAT WE CAN ACCOMMODATE A LARGER NUMBER OF MEMBERS FOR THIS POPULAR SPEAKER

Mindfulness is very much in the news these days. Emerging from the Buddhist contexts in which was nurtured for 2,500 words, it is rapidly finding its way into a wide variety of purely secular contexts. Applications have been developed for use in healthcare contexts and these have been widely researched and publicised. But was the astonishing findings around the neuroscience of mindfulness training become more widely known, so it is spreading more widely. Organisations like the US Marines have taken it up and companies like Apple, Google, GSK and many others have begun to incorporate elements of it in their training offerings. Proctor and Gamble and others use it in leadership training and there are good grounds for presuming that its impact in that field will be significant.

On this workshop Michael will give a practical and interactive introduction to mindfulness and follow that with a discussion of its impact in the context of leadership training. He will share some of the latest research findings, including cutting edge neuroscience research, into the impact of mindfulness training and will discuss the implications of that for leadership training.

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