Life on Your Terms

May 23, 2018

Working Effectively With Behaviour Change

Organisations regularly implement behaviour/culture change programs without a behaviour change strategy. Often, the positive feedback and good intentions which follow inspirational change events are confused with success, when in reality nothing has changed, other than a new plan and renewed intention to do something. Studies show that whilst we often know what we want to change and what might be good for us, the pull of habits and the ...

Alternate Pathways to Mindfulness in the Workplace

Mindfulness is worth pursuing in organisations due to the benefits to employee health and well-being as well as improving work effectiveness. Daniel Goleman, who co-authored The Science of Meditation, identified four neural networks that mindfulness meditation transforms: stress and recovery, compassion and empathy, attention, and a sense of self. This points to numerous opportunities in which mindfulness can be employed to positively...

April 12, 2018

These Five Things Will Improve Your Stress Response

We have all been in situations where an interaction has left us feeling agitated, annoyed, or embarrassed? Our mind is firing at a rate 200 thoughts per minute, mostly about the actions or words that you have interpreted in a particular way preventing us from engaging further and working through the issue in a constructive way. These are particularly difficult situations because you need to engage with people either socially or at work,...

Making Behaviour Change Stick

Organisations regularly implement behaviour/culture change programs without a behaviour change strategy. Often, the positive feedback and good intentions which follow inspirational change events are confused with success, when in reality nothing has changed, other than a new plan and renewed intention to do something. Studies show that whilst we often know what we want to change and what might be good for us, the pull of habits and the ...

April 11, 2018

An Agile Inspired Model of Personal Development

After years of dealing with ineffective performance and development systems, and when reflecting on the success of agile in achieving more meaningful and lasting change, an obvious question emerged. Can agile teach us something about how organisations do personal development? Research shows leadership and personal development can get lost in systems, plans and processes. The policies, forms and awkward development discussions can become...

November 1, 2017

Mindfully Breaking The Overload Habit

We are constantly being required to fit more and more into our days with seemingly endless demands on time, energy and attention. We can have so much occupying our minds that we can feel we are out of control with no real way to change the situation. When we think of being too busy or overloaded we can tend to put the blame on external factors such as too much work or demands from family and friends, when in reality we may be contributi...

August 9, 2017

Mindful Minute

When we connect to what is happening by focusing on our breath and senses we are able to interrupt our unproductive habitual activity so that we engage with what is happening at the present time.

June 22, 2017

About Practically Mindful Programs

………..the opportunity to change our behaviour is not always planned and happens as we go about our day to day lives, especially when this involves interacting with others We put a lot of energy into creating plans to achieve future success both personally and at work. Knowing what to focus on, whether that’s improving a development area o...

January 13, 2017

Mindfulness and Neuroscience

Mindfulness is about being able to bring your consciousness to the present moment on those occasions where you want to be present, focused and engaged with whatever is happening Understanding the vast resource that is our brains as well as some very surprising automatic responses and processing limitations is important to understanding how mindfulness works. This helps ...