THE AWARE, COMPASSIONATE, CONNECTED LEADER If a more mindful culture in Health, Education, and other sectors is to become a reality, a core group of staff, employees and even self-standing professionals exploring mindfulness benefits in the workplace or in their own life is essential. We are very effective in developing business plans, soft skills, and techniques related training, quantitative analysis, rational kind of approaches, while we know now that stopping ignoring and rather taking our own and others’ emotions into account is what makes the real difference and for the best: • Starting from a way of thinking inside/outside our job more mindfully about ourselves, • Becoming more self-aware and resilient overall for ultimately better connecting with others, • To make each individual a genuine compassionate leader for himself and the company at every hierarchy level. With these classes you will be able to refresh your ability to see clearly, manage challenging emotions, to find a skillfully internal coping strategy and self-awareness overall. Whether in your work, career, school, sport or Life, you will benefit by finding and being able to refocus on yourself. By doing that you will become better connected with other ones too. The fruition of these classes is for adults of all ages, CURRENTLY online. Custom courses for Education, Business, Health and Sport environment, for individuals in private settings or for companies.

This is an 8-session program aimed at the school ‘transition’ years of ages 12-19. The group sessions are facilitated following a broader Personal, Health, Social, and Economic Education (PSHE) curriculum focusing on gathering teens' needs, making them objects of reflection while leveraging neuroscience information and a playful approach. The program can also well serve as a taster for teachers/parents in separate sessions or workshops. In particular, Teen's Time explores issues around: - Working with concentration and focus; exploring how we can work with a wandering mind. - Identifying emotions, how they work, and interact with thoughts and body sensations. - Why humans worry, and how to support ourselves when we do so. - Sleep: why it is important and what to do if we struggle to sleep well. - Being with others: the opportunities and challenges of working skillfully with friendships and other relationships, Each session includes: - Learning about key areas of the brain and how they support us in our everyday activities - Some introductory breathing practices - Reflections - Animations, short video - Discussions - Role play's and enactment's - Exercises they can try in their own time Teen's Time is inspired and informed by the several children-oriented programs of the Mindfulness in School Program (MisP) organization. The feedback from children who have previously taken part in these programs is very positive. They report enjoying the group sessions and especially sharing their emotions with the other participants. They find learning and neuroscience helping them in a broad range of situations from being able to concentrate and focus more easily in school to helping them feel calmer in exams and competitions. Many have described sharing the learning with other family members and finding it helps them with their relationships with family and friends. Teen's Time Starts: on Monday, February 28 - Introductory session - Time: from 16:00 to 17:00 hr

Mindfulness includes awareness as much as (self) compassion. Compassion has been the most recent scientific development in terms of mind development needs. In societies that encourage to constantly compete with each other, our sense of self-worth rises and falls according to our latest success or failure with almost no control from our side. Research have found that developing kindness and compassion for ourselves and others builds our confidence and resilience, helps create meaningful, caring relationship and promotes physical and mental health. Far from fostering emotional weakness, we now know that our brains are also hardwired to respond to kindness and compassion and we can therefore heal destructive emotional patterns. There it is, the alternative to a destructive self-esteem, a better and more effective path to happiness: self-compassion. Life and the workplace is creating even more exhaustion and isolation than ever before. The pandemic made us discovering new way of doing things, how the online working/studying/connecting can deeply help, for instance. BUT it has also contributed to anxiety, to build a sense of feeling depleted, to be disconnected and having no choice. With these classes you will be able to refresh your ability to see clearly, to manage challenging emotions, to find skillfully internal coping strategy and self-awareness overall. Whether in your work, career, school, sport or Life, you will benefit by finding and being able to refocus on yourself. By doing that you will become better connected with other ones too. Throughout the course you will learn the neuroscience of all this and how it works within ourselves and each other. The fruition of these classes has different set ups for children, teen's and adults of all ages, currently online. A taster first session is highly recommended. Custom courses for Education, Business, Health and Sport environment.