Tame your Monkey Mind in a Vuca World - Search Inside Yourself @Günther Panke & Britta Hölzel (Mindful Leadership Institute) 21st April 2016 at Year of the Monkey in Munich

1. mindfulness-based
emotional intelligence

2. What do you love
about your work?
What are some of your
biggest challenges?
Dyad

4. How was the
exercise?
What would make
this a successful
day for you?
Dyad: Mindful Listening

6. It’s a
VUCA
world…

7. Volatile

8. Uncertain

9. Complex

10. Ambiguous

11. what
to do?

12. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
“The ability to monitor one’s own
and others’ feelings and emotions,
to discriminate among them and to
use this information to guide one's
thinking and actions.”
Salovey and Mayer, 1990

13. how?

14. • Self-
Awareness
• Self-
Regulation
• Motivation
• Empathy
• Social Skills

15. “Knowing one’s
internal states,
preferences,
resources and
intuitions.”
Daniel Goleman,
Working with Emotional Intelligence

17. mindfulness

18. Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The awareness that
arises from
paying attention
on purpose,
in the present
moment,
non-judgmentally”

19. EI is
trainable

20. mindfulness
meditation

22. Attention Training

23. And the
science?

25. London

26. Left Hippocampus
Neuroplasticity occurs from
mindfulness training
(Hӧlzel et al 2011)

27. Amygdala
Pre-Frontal
Cortex

28. Mindfulness training (8 weeks)...
(Hӧlzel et al 2013)
MBSR führt zu einer Verbesserung der
Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem präfrontalen
Kortex und der Amygdala
Anxiety symptoms
Connectivity
Clinical relevance
Amygdala
... leads to enhanced ‚connectivity‘
between prefrontal cortex and amygdala.

29. Attention
(Slagter, Davidson, et al 2007)

30. Less emotional
exhaustion,
greater job
satisfaction
Improve visuo-
spatial processing,
working memory,
and executive
function
Psoriasis
heals faster
Increase
Immunity
(Hülsheger et al., 2012)
(Zeidan, F., Johnson, S. K.,
Diamond, B. J., David, Z., &
Goolkasian, P., 2010)
(Jon Kabat-Zinn et al., 2012)
(Davidson, Kabat-Zinn, et al 2003)