Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, in the present moment, to yourself, others and the world around you. It is a skill that you can train in, using techniques involving attention training and body works. Research shows that people who do that are more aware of their thoughts and feelings are better able to manage them. Mindfulness training boosts your attention and concentration, raises your level of emotional intelligence, increases your resilience and improves your relationships.

This course makes the case for mindfulness training in the workplace. Put simply, its hypothesis is that people who are better at working with their minds and mental states will be more productive than those who are less skilled in these areas. Based on the emerging research evidence around the value of mindfulness training, the course discusses the relevance of that research to the world of work. It aims to train effective techniques of mindfulness that are relevant for workplace achievements. Mindfulness is now being applied as a mainstream health-care intervention.

Recommended as a frontline treatment by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), mindfulness is also being used as a means of increasing resilience and enhancing emotional intelligence and overall effectiveness in a wide range of organizations: banks, media companies, industry, law and accountancy firms, the police, government and the military.

Objective

By the end of the course, you will be able to

• Enhance a deeper sense of calmness and clarity for achievement of goals
• Regulate emotions for better energy management
• Free yourself from rigid mindsets and habits at work
• Master effective attention for sharpness in decision making and management
• Achieve charisma for better people skills

Outline

1. What Is Mindfulness?
2. What Is Mindfulness Practice?
3. Positive and Negative Stress: Up and Down the Yerkes-Dodson Curve
4. Approach and avoidance : learning new ways to Be with What Is
5. Metacognition: Knowing Your Thoughts as Thoughts
6. Respond: Learning Not to React
7. Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence: Positive Relationships at Work
8. Mindfulness for Leaders
9. Mindfulness in Coaching
10. Living Mindfully

1. What is Mindfulness?

1. Staying in the present with reality
2. Differentiating between mindlessness and mindfulness
3. The practice of mindfulness
4. Understanding positive and negative stress

2. Approach and Avoidance: Learning New Ways to be with what is

1. How to detect avoidance and promote approach
2. Metacognition: Knowing your thoughts as thoughts
3. Living and working with less thoughts
4. Respond: learning not to react

3. Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence: Positive Relationships at Work

1. How to truly regulate emotions
2. Detecting psychological patterns in relationship
3. Exercising authentic people leadership
4. Building mindful teams at work

Who should attend

For anyone who need to acquire a higher level of ability to stay attentive for peak performance. This eye opening course suits those who want to know the art and science of mindful focus and how this super charges real results at work.

Testimonial

Great Workshop! I would recommend to others. Trainer is very knowledgeable in this subject.
Ministry of Manpower

Mr Richard has impacted very practical & useful points on mindfulness. That is useful to work/personal effectiveness. Mr Richard has injected many pragmatic activities to make the workshop more impactful and interesting. Mr Richard is a competent trainer in this field of knowledge & a great communicator.
Ministry of Manpower

Message is clear to me on how mindfulness can help me personality and at work.
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

The trainer is with full knowledge to this subject.
Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura

Dr. Richard Lim's Profile

Director, Southeast Asia, Professional School of Psychology, California, USA

Clinical Supervisor, American Psychological Association (APA), Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC)

Professional Member, American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)

Professional Member, Singapore Psychological Society (SPS)

Doctorate, PsyD, Clinical Psychology, Professional School of Psychology, California

Master in Social Science in Counselling, University of South Australia

Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy, Graduate School of Medical Studies, National University of Singapore

Bachelor in Arts and Social Science (HONS), National University of Singapore

Accredited Training Consultant, Legacy Leadership, Texas, USA

Accredited Consultant Trainer, Coach-based Consulting, Santa Fe Center, USA
Advanced training in Mindfulness, Psychodrama, Couple Therapy & Narrative Therapy

Richard focuses his professional consultancy on leadership development and organization coaching. He has worked with groups of leadership staff from multi-national companies like Coca Cola, Microsoft, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Shell, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Barclays Capital, National Panasonic, Fujitsu, Courts, PSA, Continental Auto; International agencies like YMCA, Outward Bounds and World Vision; local government organizations and community institutions such as State Court, NIE, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Trade & Industry, National Environment Agency, National Council of Social Services, Singapore Sports Council, People’s Association, National Centre for Leadership Institute.

Richard works actively with parents of diverse professional backgrounds in Singapore and Jakarta for more than 15 years. As a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist, he is appointed by the Ministry of Social & Family Development and Ministry of Education in Singapore to train both parents and teachers in matter of child, family and education development. Richard was tasked by the Singapore government to oversee various youth projects in Singapore tackling issues on adolescent relationship and sexuality. These were successfully carried out from 2007 till 2014. Richard was also actively managing young adult relationship concerns in Singapore supported by the Social Development Unit under Prime Minister Office. Currently, Richard is the Consultant Psychologist to oversee and train government officials on resilience and wellness with both public and private sector organizations. In the earlier part of Richard’s career, he was a diplomat analyst of Singapore with extensive travels round the world to manage foreign affairs matters.

Richard collaborates with prominent universities in Singapore like NUS and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in training and supervising graduate students and alumni professionals in the application of behaviour science in organizations and the community. Richard was an Adjunct Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Nanyang Business School on management and leadership.

Richard has written professionally for various educational and organizational development projects. Richard has given frequent media interviews on his specialty to Jakarta Now, What’s New Jakarta, The Straits Time, FM93.8Live, Japanese TV, Taiwanese TV and European media programs.