Resources for Tasnetworks
SESSION 1
SLIDES FOR SESSION 1: Click to download.
SUGGESTED PRACTICE
Listening Practice: Experiment with listening, at work, home, anywhere.
SUGGESTED READING
- Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: PRACTICE 2: Do the Work; PRACTICE 3: Don’t be an Expert
- The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. *I particularly recommend the chapters on Mental Models and Self Mastery.
RECOMMENDED POEM
Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye.
RECOMMENDED VIDEO
SESSION 2
SLIDES FOR SESSION 2: Click to download.
SUGGESTED PRACTICE
Daily Meditation Practice; 4 Levels of Listening (not listening, content, feelings, intuition)
SUGGESTED READING
- Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: PRACTICE 4: Connect To Your Pain; PRACTICE 5: Connect To The Pain of Others; PRACTICE 6: Depend On Others
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons For the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Hariari
RECOMMENDED POEM
You Reading This, Be Ready by William Stafford.
SESSION 3
SLIDES FOR SESSION 3: Click to download.
SUPPLEMENTARY SLIDES:
SUGGESTED PRACTICES
- Daily Meditation Practice (5 days per week, at least a few minutes a day)
- Mindful Listening: connecting with others’ feelings
- Meetings: explore methods to bring more aliveness and make more effective
GUIDED MEDITATION
- Stepping Into Your Life – 5 minute
- Stepping Into Your Life – 10 minute
- Stepping Into Your Life – 20 minute
SUGGESTED READING
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- Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: PRACTICE 7: Keep Making it Simpler
- Being Genuine: Stop Being Nice, Start Being Real by Thomas d’Ansembourg
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglass Stone
- Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
RECOMMENDED POEM
For a Leader by John O’Donohue.
SESSION 4
SLIDES FOR SESSION 4: Click to download.
SUGGESTED PRACTICES
- Daily meditation practice
- Reflect on the Seven Practices. Choose one each week to focus on through journal writing and integrating with work and relationships
- Cultivating curiosity and kindness
- Compassionate Accountability
SUGGESTED READING
- The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski
- Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright
RECOMMENDED POEMS
- Working Together by David Whyte.
- Mindful by Mary Oliver.