Mindful@Work: Tools + Resources

So many resources, so little time! Here we attempt to maintain a carefully curated list of “go to’s” for up-leveling your awareness and capacity to activate a more mindful and present approach to your day-to-day world.

FREE MEDITATIONS, HACKS, + APPS:

• UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center: 5-19 minute Guided Meditations

• Center for Humane Technology  Take Control

• The Unmistakable Creative: Making Ideas Happen

• mindful.org: How to Practice Mindfulness Meditation

• Mindfulness tips one-pager link: http://www.mindful.org/achieve-more-by-doing-less/

• These meditation apps – Insight Timer, Calm, and Headspace –   are effective for getting started with your practice.

VIDEO + TEDTALKS:

• The Mind Explained, all shorts in this five-part series are fascinating with one specifically dedicated to mindfulness (requires a Netflix subscription)

• Eldra Jackson TedTalk How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity

• The Long Journey to 10% Happier, Dan Harris

• Howard Martin Heart Math TedTalk:  Engaging the Intelligence of the Heart. 

• Luvvie Ajayi TedTalk Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

• Jodi-Ann Burey TedTalk The Myth of Bringing your Authentic Self to Work

• Amy Cuddy TedTalk Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

• Using Wisdom Purposefully in Business with Ford Motor Company Chairman Bill Ford, interview at Wisdom 2.0 conference

• Mel Robbins on Impact Theory and The Five-Second Rule (a 60-minute interview, the first 20 minutes is powerful on its own)

• Carl Honore TedTalk In Praise of Slowness TedTalk

• 60 Minutes:  Anderson Cooper on Mindfulness

• NYTimes: World Economic Forum Amid the Chattering of the Global Elite, a Silent Interlude.

• Thich Nhat Hanh:  Is Mindfulness Being Corrupted by Business and Finance? 

• The Atlantic:  Single Tasking is the New Multi Tasking Video

PODCASTS

• Professional Troublemaker Luvvie Ajayi Jones

• The Science of Happiness Greater Good Science Center

• On Being with Krista Tippett

• 10% Happier Podcast with Dan Harris

• Your Undivided Attention w/Tristan Harris

ARTICLES + STUDIES

• UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center

• UCSD Center for Mindfulness

• 2018 Boston Consulting Group: Unleashing the Power of Mindfulness in Corporations

• 2011 Benefits of Mindfulness Study (one of MANY studies, google for more recent data. We like this one because of it covers so many benefits in one paper).

• 2014 HBR Research: Technology is only making social skills more important.

• Research:  Jonathan Greenberg Keren Reiner, Nachshon Meiran

  Mind the Trap, Mindfulness Practice Reduces Cognitive Rigidity

• Forbes: A Guide to Mindfulness at Work

• The Guardian Mindfulness at work. What are the benefits?

• Are You Developing Skills That Won’t Be Automated?, HBR

• Discovering Your Authentic Leadership Voice Bill GeorgePeter SimsAndrew N. McLeanDiana Mayer

• The Authenticity Paradox, HBR

• Scott Halford:  Five Things Your Brain Wants You to Know About Focus. 

• Ryan Underwood:  Using Neuroscience to Boost Creativity

• Research: Brian D. Ostafin, Kyle T. Kassman Mindfulness Improves Insight Problem Solving.

• Blanca Rothschild:  How Mindful Meditation Boosts Creativity and Innovation

• Huffington Post, Flynn Coleman: Mindfulness, An Ancient Skill for Thriving in the Modern Innovation Economy.

• Moshe Bar:  Think Less, Think Better 

• Mindful Magazine The Science of Mindfulness

Current Top Book Picks (no links, we’ll let you choose your favorite seller.)

• Margaret Cullen, Gonzalo Brito Pons, PhD The Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance Workbook, An eight-week program for improved emotion regulation and resilience

• Due Quach Brain 3.0

• Luvvie Ajayi Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual

• Jamil Zaki The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World

• Viktor Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning

• Jennifer Garvey Berger Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity

• Arianna Huffington Thrive: The Third Metric

• Rhonda Magee The Inner Work of Racial Justice

• Rick Hanson Resilience and Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom

• Daniel Goleman books on Emotional Intelligence: Focus and Working with Emotional Intelligence

• Daniel Goleman Richard Davidson Altered Traits

• Yuval Noah Harari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

• The Arbinger Institute: Leadership & Self Deception and The Anatomy of Peace

• Amy Cuddy: Presence 

We’d love to hear what you’re finding most beneficial for bringing peace, balance, and resiliency forward!