Without proper training, the mind can become overwhelmed by thoughts of past regrets or future worries, much like an overgrown garden tangled with weeds. However, when tended with mindfulness, the mind blossoms into a space of calm, presence, creativity and improved focus.
This workshop offers a simple explanation of how the brain works and its inherent biases when reacting to discomfort and stress. It explores how these automatic survival responses, while protective, often disrupt wellbeing and productivity. Participants will explore techniques to break these patterns and bring the mind back to the present moment—the true center of balance and wellbeing.
Key Takeaways:
- Experiential practices and self-inquiry to uncover automatic mental patterns.
- Practical mindfulness techniques to improve productivity and overall wellbeing.
- A deeper understanding of how the brain works and its reaction to stress and discomfort.
- Insights into neuroplasticity and how the brain can be rewired to overcome automatic stress responses.
84% of Canadian workers have experienced burnout in the past year, and more than a third have reported high or extreme levels of burnout, according to Hanover Research. In times like these, our brains are conditioned to become hyper vigilant, constantly on alert. Over time, this leads to irritability, intolerance, disruption of executive functions, and over-investment in the negative, to name just a few consequences.
Without mind training, the mind is like an untrained horse, ruminating about the past or worrying about the future, and far below its full potential of maximal productivity, wellbeing and power. What’s shocking: most of us are largely unaware of the current untrained state of our mind.
In a simple and practical way, this workshop explains how the brain works and how it is biased in its reaction to discomforts, and even in its survival, and proposes several techniques and solutions to return to the present moment, the locus of well-being.
From this interactive workshop, participants will take away:
- Experiential practices and questioning to uncover the problem: what is the mind automatically like
- How mind training, such as mindfulness practices, save us time
- Neuroplasticity: how we can rewire the mind’s automatic patterns
- Brain science: how the mind works
- Immediately actionable mindfulness training activities
