Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training

Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training: A Complete Program for Leaders and Individuals is the first book to link mindfulness training and positive psychology to the leadership, strategy and management issues faced by individuals and organizations.

• Sets out a complete program in Mindfulness-based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT), a new form of strengths-based business mindfulness training which enhances participants' ability to perceive opportunities, adapt and grow
• Draws on research from neuroscience, positive psychology, behavioural finance and management to show how leaders, managers and individuals can build and maintain more resonant relationships and adapt to constant change
• Includes real-life vignettes, specific instructions and a wealth of resources designed to guide experiential learning including background information, exercises, guidelines, hand-outs, graphics, and guided audio meditations
• Mindfulness training is increasingly used in organizational contexts - the author is a pioneer in designing and delivering training that applies mindfulness and positive psychology to the strategic challenges of management and business

Reviews by Experts

This book is important for all who seek to lead organizations, showing how mindfulness can be combined with the findings from positive psychology for the benefit of all. The book is not just good theory. It also provides a step-by-step practical program to cultivate a balance between motivation for outcomes on the one hand, and compassion toward self and others on the other. Here are skills that can be learned; skills that can truly inspire and sustain wise leadership.

Mark Williams, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford, was also the Founding Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. Now Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry of Oxford University.

Author of "Mindfulness: An Eight week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World", Co-author with Zindel V. Segal and John Teasdale of "Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression" and author and co-author of a series other standard works in the field of mindfulness

In today's disruptive times, it is happy and loyal customers that count. This rich and practical book provides an exceptionally smart learning tool to help consumers make mindful decisions that lead to happiness. And for any leader and manager it is a key reading for making wise business and marketing decisions that create value.

Bernd Schmitt, Ph.D., Professor, Columbia Business School, New York.

Author of "Experiential Marketing: How to Get Consumers to Sense, Fell, Think and Act, Relate to your Company and Brands." and "Happy Customers Everywhere: How Your Business Can Profit from the Insights of Positive Psychology."

Juan Humberto Young is the first to integrate positive psychology and mindfulness with a results-oriented focus on business strategy. In today's ever-changing organizations, leaders need clarity and flexibility to adapt and succeed. Built on leading-edge science, this book offers a step-by-step program that will light your path not only to greater strategic awareness but also to greater well-being.

Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D., Kenan, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Author of the two bestsellers "Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life." and "Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection".

Juan Humberto Young integrates mindfulness practices, positive psychology, and extensive business experience to design a practical training program that improves personal and professional decision-making. This book offers tools to make decisions that increase subjective well-being because the sources of much unh

Auteur

Juan Humberto Young is Professor of Positive Leadership, Strategy, and Finance at IE University and Business School, Madrid. He is a recognized pioneer in designing and delivering services that apply mindfulness and positive psychology to management, and has several decades of experience in consulting and management including board and senior level management positions with UBS, KPMG, and a Swiss electro-engineering fi rm. His academic credentials include a doctorate in Management from Case Western Reserve University, a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University and Masters degrees in Management including an MBA from the University of Chicago and Harvard. He is currently the owner of a positive strategy consultancy company and academic director of the Executive Master in Positive Leadership and Strategy at IE University, Madrid.

Contenu

Boxes, Tables and Figures xii

About the Author xv

Preface xvi

About the Companion Website xx

Part 1 Foundations for Mindful, Positive Leadership and a Constructive Way of Life 1

1 The Quest for a Model of Mindful, Positive Leadership and a Constructive Way of Life 3

1.1 Groundwork for Models of Leading and Living 3

1.2 In Pursuit of Answers to Intriguing Questions 5

1.3 Two Discoveries and their Importance for Good Leadership and Living 6

1.4 From Groundwork to a Model for Mindful, Positive Leadership and a Constructive Way of Life 14

2 What is Positive Psychology? 15

2.1 Birth of a New Discipline 15

2.2 Positive Emotions: The Cornerstone of Positive Psychology 17

2.3 Engagement and Flow 21

2.4 Relationships: The "R" in PERMA 24

2.5 Meaning in Life 25

2.6 Positive Accomplishment: Fifth and Last Element of PERMA 26

2.7 Hindrances to Subjective Well being 27

2.8 Positive Psychology Interventions (PPIs): The Instruments for Increasing Happiness 30

2.9 Summarizing Remarks and Outlook 32

3 What is Mindfulness? 33

3.1 Rediscovering Personal Practice 33

3.2 Defining Mindfulness 34

3.3 Some Open Issues of Mindfulness 37

3.4 Operating Mechanisms of Mindfulness 38

3.5 Benefits from Mindfulness Practice 40

3.6 Mindfulness based Interventions (MBIs) 44

4 Strategic Awareness: The Key to Well Being 48

4.1 The Importance of Strategy 48

4.2 The Future-Not the Past, Not even the Present-As Key to Well Being 51

4.3 Strategic Awareness 54

Part 2 Mindfulness Based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT) 65

5 MBSAT: The Program 67

5.1 Its Origin and Goals 67

5.2 MBSAT: A Decision Making Approach 68

5.3 MBSAT Principles 71

5.4 MBSAT Mindfulness Components 79

5.5 The Locus of MBSAT Practices-Minding BETA 80

6 MBSAT: The Program Design 82

6.1 Defining Needs: Understanding Afflictions in the Workplace and in Life 82

6.2 The Format of MBSAT 86

6.3 The Content of MBSAT: An Overview 87

6.4 Expected Benefits from MBSAT 90

6.5 A Finance View of MBSAT Benefits 92

6.6 The Characteristics of Participants and Related Risks 95

6.7 Getting Started: Group Composition and Presession Interviews 98

6.8 Teaching MBSAT 100

6.9 The Importance of Inquiry in Sessions 102

6.10 Homework Assignments 106

6.11 Annex to Chapter 6: MBSAT Precourse Interview Template 108

7 Session 1: Robotic Living-Automatic Pilot 111

7.1 Introduction 111

7.2 Session Organization, Coverage, and Sequence 113

7.3 Exercises and Practices of Session 1 114

8 Session 2: Living Above the Neck 122

8.1 Introduction 122

8.2 Session Organization, Coverage, and Sequence 125

8.3 Exercises and Practices of Session 2 126

9 Session 3: Recollecting Our Mind 133

9.1 Introduction 133

9.2 Session Organization, Coverage, and Sequence 138

9.3 Exercises and Practices of Session 3 139

9.4 Annex to Chapter 9: Body Scan: Recognizing Emotions and Sens…