The document discusses the benefits of mindfulness in the workplace, including reduced tensions, improved communication skills, and better handling of conflicts and teamwork. It notes that mindfulness can help cultivate innovation by providing attention, awareness, openness and balance. The document also recommends various mindfulness practices, such as meditation, spending time in nature, limiting social media use, moving the body, and fully concentrating on present activities, to improve decision making, communication, and overall well-being.

1. MIND FULL OR MINDFUL?
Alison Moore
29th November 2012

2. Which are you?

3. BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS
 Mindfulness can help reduce workplace tensions.
 People who practice mindfulness at work report an
improved ability to communicate clearly and more
appropriate reactions to stressful situations.
 They also report a better ability to handle workplace
conflict, Improved teamwork, a better ability to
"think out of the box" and in some cases enhanced
creativity.

4. MINDFULNESS & INNOVATION
 While innovation can't be manufactured on
demand, it can be cultivated both inwardly and
outwardly through the practice of mindfulness.
Cultivating attention and awareness through
mindfulness provides a new way for all to live all
aspects of their lives with a greater sense of
skill, connection, openness, and balance.

5. WHY MIGHT IT MATTER?
 Mindfulness quiets mental chatter and it lays the
foundation for better decision-making and
communication.
 Learning from professional athletes, we can
actually do more in less time by practicing the art of
recovery. Professional athletes understand that
pushing themselves at 100% of their capacity 100%
of the time results in little or no long-term
performance gain. They build time to recharge into
their training routines. We can do the same.

6. Some Science:

8. Your Mindfulness Practice:

9. YOUR PRESCRIPTION
 1. Explore meditation practises and find one that
works for you.
 2. Regularly spend time unhooked from social
media. Recognise if you are addicted to Facebook
etc. the dopamine hit from messaging that is
identical to the brain chemistry of a drug addiction.
 3. Spend time in nature.
 4. Spend more time with people with whom you
feel good
 5. Find ways of being kinder to yourself.

10. YOUR PRESCRIPTION 2
 6. Move your body
 7. Find out what foods give you energy
 8. Phone a friend
 9. Occasionally watch clouds
 10. Walk the labyrinth
 11. Stand up straight shoulders away from the
ears.
 12. Step away from the computer

11. HOW TO BE MINDFUL – BACK TO BASICS
 Concentrate fully on whatever activity you are
engaged in. Thich Nhat Hanh suggest that 'when
you are washing the dishes, be only washing the
dishes'. Give your full concentration to the activity of
washing the dishes. You may find that time seems
to slow down and calmness sets in.