CORPORATE PROGRAMS
Tackling stress and mental health is becoming one of the biggest issues in the corporate world. The current pandemic is elevating the stress and anxiety to the forefront. We need to reduce cumulative stress on an individual level, which is silently building without anyone being aware, until it is overwhelmingly too late.
The Stanford Social innovation Review article put it perfectly: “Instead of pressuring already-stressed individuals to fix themselves, true wellness requires organisation-level interventions”.
CUSTOM PROGRAM FOR YOU
A 2019 Harvard Medical School study shows that current workplace “wellness” programs have little impact on the problem. Wellness in the workplace is a $8 Billion industry in the US alone and it doesn’t make a dent in the issue.
The current methods are “fluffy”. Does the person designing the program understand your office culture? Do they care if people join in or not? Or we all just ticking the box to say we did it? Organisations need to have offerings that offer the biggest relief of stress and anxiety in the shortest amount of time and are compassionate to all the employers and employee’s needs. There has to be a community and an instructor, just like golf or tennis an instructor working with people will be the mental relief needed to continue their day, A community provides the setting to ensure regular practice.
Having worked in global investment banks such as Macquarie and Credit Suisse, I know what would work in your particular situation and can work with you and your team to develop that.
INVESTING IN MEDITATION
Increased productivity & focus
One of our barriers to focus and productivity is a distraction in order to escape discomfort. This is a homeostatic response in order to maintain an internal stability. Vedic Meditation does that for us, so we don’t need these distractive techniques to find stability.
Expansion creativity & innovation
Stress, tension and fatigue constricts our thinking, which leads to working from our mistaken intellect. Vedic Meditation’s technique causes the mind to move out of that surface of thinking into brief moments of stillness. From there all creativity is manifested.
Better morale & teamwork
According to an article in the Stanford review, the 4 pillars to team resilience are Self-Awareness, Autonomy, Structured R&R and Community. Wellness programs used to be a nice to have, but now it is not negotiable and we have to do more preventative techniques like meditation before stress takes its toll.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Incorporating a discussion on wellbeing of employees into your corporate conferences, strategy days or small team sessions are so important. From a recent study I did on stress management, it said people want to have more energy at work and more time. We can address topics like this and I can give them a simple meditation experience as a first step.
Other topics include relationships at work, managing outcomes, attention and awareness, goals, energy levels, focus, time management and boundary setting.
WHO IS IT FOR?
Working in investments banks in London and Sydney I organised many events from small strategy sessions to global conferences for hundreds of people. In this setting people are usually in a different frame of mind, wearing casual clothes and have specific time carved out to listen to interesting topics. They have permission to think about themselves and those around them. This is the perfect setting to incorporate your investment in the wellbeing of employee.
I also really see benefits of introducing meditation to our young adults. Here they experience pivotal life stages and with no tools to help them through it.
I have spent all of my life doing performing arts of some kind, acting in particular requires some truth in your storytelling. Vedic Meditation settles the mind and body to operate from a place of stillness and this shows in your performance, rather than playing the emotion. The art of listening is also enhanced as you are more present and aware of more than one thing in your surroundings. Creativity doesn’t comes from the intellect; it comes from that deep inner quiet state of consciousness that is accessible when practicing Vedic Meditation.
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