My good friend works for a new organisation called "Mindfulness Connected" that offers a mindfulness courses to businesses developed by the founder Mark Leonard.
They have completed a case study where they offered the course to CVS Vets and had great success in greatly reducing the stress of the vets. The course is a 6 week course with a daily mindfulness practise of 20 minutes.
The rate of suicide in the veterinary profession has been pegged as close to twice that of the dental profession, and more than twice that of the medical profession. So by showing how this could work for vets it demonstrates how powerful this could be in any profession.
The benefit to a business is a side effect of the benefits of mindfulness for the employees - Increased productivity by reducing worker burnout.
A Practice Manager working for CVS had suffered from depression for most of her adult life. When she joined CVS she was offered mindfulness training. In her own words “I was sceptical; after all, if tablets and psychiatry hadn’t helped, why would concentrating on the here and now help?… I was so wrong; this course has helped me more than I could have imagined…Another unexpected positive outcome of the course is the confidence it has given me. I am now happy to participate in meetings and actually have the confidence to put my ideas across.”
They want to be part of a movement to make mindfulness in the workplace mainstream as they know the power mindfulness as a practise has in transforming people's lives and thus transforming the world we live in.
I write this here to see if anyone is interested in using the course at their workplace.
Contact me privately if so.
or if anyone had advice on how to go about making this a success? Had any experience running/working for an organisation like this?
Thank you
