Mindful Leadership

Research shows that meditation increases creativity, stress resiliency, and the ability to self-regulate. You can support your capacity to access peace and calm in your personal and professional life through mindfulness practices. Join this free 21-day program to build your mindfulness "muscle" muscle. You will receive daily prompts and meditations to support your sit meditation practice plus mindfulness checks at the end of each day.

Healthier group dynamics is good for your mental wellbeing, reduces stress and can help reinforce your mindfulness practice in a number of ways. It's an important feedback loop: mindfulness practices help maintain healthy group dynamics, and healthier group dynamics help sustain and deepen the impacts of your mindfulness practice.

During the most recent wave of DEI popularity, we often heard people say "we've been waiting to do this kind of work for so long." Even many DEI skeptics eventually found the organizational/communal work of DEI worthwhile because it often rooted out the deep seated issues that blocked a sense of belonging and dignity for everyone - which led to increased individual wellbeing and consequently healthier group dynamics.

Check out this Workplace Peace Institute learning focus to read more about inclusion and it's connection to emotional labor.

In the heart of the summer work can seem more peaceful and productive. Many times our mind wanders as we consider why, and if you have thought to yourself that it is easier to get things done when so-and-so isn't around, or certain department leaders are on sabbatical, you may want to consider how your workplace norms are impacting your wellbeing.

As summer heat waves have many of us yearning for cooler temperatures, let's throw it back to January, and visit, or even re-visit, this free WPI webinar from the beginning of the year on "The Hidden Cost of Civility."

With so much going on around us, within us, and with those we love it can seem like pausing or resting is a luxury we can't afford to indulge. Yet, we're also so tired and frazzled that we've turned our entirely organized closet upside trying to find our cape - which we probably left in the car, or on the hook in the front closet we installed to avoid this kind of mayhem.

But what if the truth is, there is no cape required. Even when we thought it was written in our job description (*duties as assigned*). Check out this podcast with WPI's Dr. Robyn Short about the pervasive myth of the "Superwoman."

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 In this interview, we're talking about conflict in the workplace and the role that emotional intelligence plays in navigating such conflict successfully.My guest, Dr. Robyn Short, is an organization systems design consultant, peace-building ...