Garrison Institute: Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader Workshop

In this 2-day workshop, which is suitable for leaders at any level, you’ll receive the tools you need to shift awareness, enhance communication, build trust, eliminate fear and self-doubt, and cut down on unnecessary workplace drama.

We’ll explore how the inner work of mindfulness and self-awareness meets the outer work of leadership and business as forces for positive change and results that matter. You’ll learn how to:

• Cultivate your leadership presence
• Thrive in the midst of change and challenges
• “Own” your power and your ability to empower others
• Improve focus and flexibility
• Cultivate greater self-awareness and resilience
• Increase engagement, collaboration, and well-being

This highly-interactive training is structured around 7 core mindful leadership practices:

1) Love the work: Lead with focused inspiration.
2) Do the work: Learn to respond with more empathy and flexibility.
3) Don’t be an expert: Let go of thinking you are right. Step into greater wonder, openness, and vulnerability.
4) Connect to your pain: Transform challenges and difficulty into learning and opportunity.
5) Connect to the pain of others: Increase connection and trust
6) Depend on others: Empower others and be empowered by others to foster alignment and radically healthy communication.
7) Keep making it simpler: Let go of a mindset of fear and scarcity. Cultivate awe and wonder. Focus on results that matter most.

Embracing any one of the 7 practices alone can be life-changing. When used together, they support a path of well-being, productivity, and positive influence.

Sustaining and Integrating the Practices: program participants will learn group support and problem solving methodology providing the framework for ongoing, independent group study following the training, as a means to sustain and integrate the practices.

Presenter Information

Marc Lesser has taught his proven 7-step method to leaders at Google, Genentech, Comcast, Facebook, and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies for over 20 years. This experiential workshop draws on Marc’s experience as a CEO of 3 companies, as co-founder of the world-renowned Search Inside Yourself (SIY) program within Google, and as a long-time Zen practitioner. For more information on training, visit https://marclesser.net/training-for-organizations/.

Marc’s latest book, Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen, is now available online and in stores.