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
