Kim Bader Wellness

What sets this mindfulness experience apart is our comprehensive approach to integrating mindfulness into daily life through various forms of meditation. In addition to meditation practices, we focus on understanding the nervous system and brain states, emphasizing the importance of creating safety and connection as a foundation for a sustainable mindfulness practice. Without the ability to recognize and identify emotional and survival states, mindfulness practices can sometimes lead to increased distress within the brain-mind-body system. Instead of relying on coping mechanisms that merely mask experiences, we explore regulating resources that genuinely transform our experience and enhance our capacity to manage stress effectively.

In our modern world, we are rewarded for facing unhealthy stress and stuffing our emotions down to push through. This mindset actually creates disease in our body, keeps our brains feeling like we are under threat and distorts our cognition, which could make it difficult to create a successful mindfulness practice. My hope is that with this information and the practices I share in this series, that you will cultivate the internal and external resources to create a solid foundation to build your mindfulness practice upon. 

Benefits of Mindfulness

The top benefits of workplace Mindfulness programs have been

identified as follows:

• Enhanced problem solving and decision making.
• Lengthened attention span and improved absorption of new information.
• Improved creativity and adaptability.
• Enhanced client and employer/employee relationships through actively listening, being appreciative, and demonstrating a kind awareness that translates into business success.
• Enhanced performance and  productivity through improved cognitive flexibility, concentration and creativity. 
• Reduction in levels of stress within individuals, reduction in costs of absenteeism due to stress and stress-related illness 
• Greater resilience via improved emotional intelligence, with people generally better equipped to cope with demanding workloads, deadlines and decision-making.
• Employees with a greater capacity for tolerance within the workplace through improved self-regulation of thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
• Increased staff retention through employee job satisfaction and employee engagement.
• Enhanced job satisfaction  through a clearer sense of purpose.  
• Enhanced interpersonal relations at work.
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The top benefits of a workplace Mindfulness program on leadership, have been identified as:

• Greater ability to think strategically and greater clarity of thought and creativity.
• Enhanced, more thoughtful and deliberate decision-making and listening skills.
• Enhanced self-awareness.
• Being able to pay attention to the impact of response to oneself and others/other situations.
• Ability to respond rather than react; deal with situations more calmly and less judgmentally.
• Greater personal energy and resilience.
• Clearer sense of core purpose/personal purpose and values.
• Greater productivity and focus.