Workplace Wellness: Promoting a Culture of Workplace Wellness through Mindfulness, Gratitude and Joy

Workplace Wellness: Promoting a Culture of Workplace Wellness through Mindfulness, Gratitude and Joy

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  Promoting a Cultureof Workplace Wellness through Mindfulness, Gratitude and Joy Julie Bruns Shelley Trout With: Moderated by: TO USE YOUR COMPUTER'S AUDIO: When the webinar begins, you will be connected to audio using your computer's microphone and speakers (VoIP). A headset is recommended. Webinar will begin: 11:00 am, PST TO USE YOUR TELEPHONE: If you prefer to use your phone, you must select "Use Telephone" after joining the webinar and call in using the numbers below. United States: +1(415) 655-0052 Access Code: 583-709-369 Audio PIN: Shown after joining the webinar --OR--
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  About Julie Bruns JulieBruns is the Organizational Development and Training Lead for an IT consulting company, with over 15 years of learning and development experience. She has a passion for delivering professional development workshops, and evolving people and their business skills through engaging, energetic seminars. Connecting and inspiring teams is at the core of what she does every day. About Shelley Trout Shelley went to UC Berkeley and majored in Anthropology & Archaeology. After working at the Center of Digital Archaeology, she became fascinated with digital representations of personality and culture, and now leads Webinar Production at Aggregage, providing some of the most interesting thought-leaders across a wide variety of industries with a space to celebrate the diversity, depth, and experience of their professional cultures, personalities, and passions.
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  5 Promoting a Cultureof Workplace Wellness through Mindfulness, Gratitude and Joy
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  Meditation: 1: a discourseintended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation 2: the act or process of meditating Mindfulness: 1: the quality or state of being mindful 2: the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis; also: such a state of awareness “A practice that dates back to the 1970s, using the term first coined by Jon Kabat-Zinn, who defined it as "paying attention on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgmentally, to the unfolding of experience moment to moment.“
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  Calms Nerves Helps Control Pain GreaterWell Being Reduces Stress Promotes Emotional Health Improves Sleep Lengthens Attention Span Controls Anxiety CompassionClarity Self- Awareness Shawn Achor: “…mindfulness is a credit card for resilience; the more you spend, the more rewards you get at the end of the month.” Health Benefits
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  Work Benefits  Lowerhealthcare costs  Increased work satisfaction  Social connection: one of the greatest predictors of long-term happiness  More productive, increased memory  Higher levels of engagement “Research also shows that, in addition to slowing you down, multitasking lowers your IQ. A study at the University of London found that participants who multitasked during cognitive tasks experienced IQ score declines that were similar to what they'd expect if they had smoked marijuana or stayed up all night. IQ drops of 15 points for multitasking men lowered their scores to the average range of an 8-year-old child.” Opposed to Mindfulness, multi-tasking damages your brain, lowers your IQ and your EQ
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  More Benefits  Reprogramsyour brain (more gray matter)  Most successful people mediate 1, 2, 3x/day  Reduces activity in sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight), increases activity in parasympathetic nervous system (calm and relaxed feeling)  Anti-stress serum  Calm down after stress more quickly Meditation has been linked to larger amounts of gray matter in the hippocampus and frontal areas of the brain. More gray matter can lead to more positive emotions, longer-lasting emotional stability and heightened focus during daily life.
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   Set yourintention:  You become what you think about all day long (Ralph Waldo Emerson)  Practice Daily:  21 days to form a new habit  More effective daily vs 1 hour/week  Build this strength like a muscle  Stick with it; a busy mind is normal  Set yourself up for success  Find a quiet place (same time/place)  Take it with you into your daily life 5 TIPS – BEFORE WORK And when you meditate first thing, you infuse your day with a sense of clarity and peace that can help you deal with any stress that gets thrown your way.
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   5 minutesper day  Take vacation days  Avoid reading email first thing in the morning  Turn off all notifications  Stop multi-tasking  Put it on your calendar 5 TIPS – AT WORK
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   Why Gratitude? Gratitude
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  Several studies haveshown that practicing gratitude leads to:  Better overall physical health and better sleep  More optimistic outlook on life and upcoming events  More likely to make progress in achieving important goals  Increase in alertness, attention, determination and energy  Increase in compassionate acts and sense of being connected to others  Enhanced empathy  Reduced aggression  Improved self esteem  Better mental health Benefits of Gratitude “New research shows that you can help others be more productive by getting them to reflect on the good things going on in their life.” Shawn Achor
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   Every daywrite it or say it; gratitude requires practice  Do it first thing to set the tone before anything else gets in your brain  Turn a negative into a positive  Say what you want, not what you don’t want  Give a least 1 compliment daily (directly or general appreciation)  Ask yourself: What can I learn? What will I be grateful for?  Vow to not complain, criticize, or gossip for a week  Sound genuinely happy to hear from/see people  Join a cause important to you (donate money/time/talent) Cultivating Gratitude
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  Definition: -the emotion evokedby well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect possessing what one desires: delight 1. the expression or exhibition of such emotion: gaiety 2. a state of happiness or felicity: bliss 3. a source or cause of delight Synonyms:  crow, exuberate, glory, jubilate, exult, kvell, rejoice, triumph What is Joy? The difference between happiness and joy:  “Happiness is tied to circumstances and joyfulness is tied to spirit and gratitude.”  “According to my Random House dictionary, joy means, ‘The emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something good or satisfying.’”
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   JOY 1:Find the Pleasure in Learning – find the pleasing things at work!  JOY 2: Give Students Choice – create choices at work!  JOY 3: Let Students Create Things – create things at work!  JOY 4: Show Off Student Work – celebrate achievements at work!  JOY 5: Take Time to Tinker – reflect about things that have gone well at work!  JOY 6: Make School Spaces Inviting – create an inviting workspace!  JOY 7: Get Outside – go outside regularly (at work or at home)!  JOY 8: Read Good Books – read good books/articles about what you love!  JOY 9: Offer More Gym and Arts Classes – take an art class or exercise more!  JOY 10: Transform Assessment – assess yourself as you go, ask for feedback!  JOY 11: Have Some Fun Together – have some fun at work (with each other)! Why Not Joy at Work? When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.” - Betty Bender
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   “Ultimately, Irealized that while happiness is a choice, it is not just an individual choice, it is an interconnected one. This is because when you choose to act with gratitude or joy, you make joy and gratitude easier for others, who in turn give you more reasons to be grateful and joyous.“ Shawn Achor  Shawn describes a virtuous cycle, “a positive feedback loop where by making others better leads to more resources, energy, and experiences that make you better, fueling the cycle again. Thus, making others better takes your success to the next level.“ Shawn Achor  “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John F. Kennedy  “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." Oprah Winfrey  “Your success, your well being, and your performance are all connected to that of the people around you.” Shawn Achor Summary
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  18 Q&A Shelley Trout With: Moderatedby: Organizational Development and Training Lead, SWC Technology Partners Linkedin page: julie-bruns-46030b19/ Email: [email protected] Julie Bruns Editor, Aggregage Linkedin page: in/shelleytrout/ Twitter ID: @hrposts Email: [email protected] Website: aggregage.com www.humanresourcestoday.com/webinar-series/workplacewellness