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How Mindfulness
Supports Leadership Development
Michelle Somerday, Ph.D.
April 12, 2013
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Mindfulness Programs
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Take-Aways Today � Mindfulness underpins many theories of
leadership development.
� However, we are not naturally mindful!
� But mindfulness is something that can be cultivated and sustained.
� Mindfulness has benefits to leaders that may be overlooked.
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Defining “Mindfulness” � Moment-to-moment awareness of present
experience, both inner and outer.
� Acceptance of all aspects of the current experience § Does not imply approval, comfort, resignation.
§ “Being with what is” without judgment or intervention.
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Red…green…shiny…smooth…curved…
white…firm…sweet…juicy
Narrative
Apples are OK, but doughnuts are much tastier…Someone brought doughnuts in to work yesterday, and I ate two of them…I really
shouldn’t have, because I need to lose weight…I think Betty was
trying to sabotage my efforts…I need to go to the gym – I’ve been
so lazy lately….
Mindful
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Narrative
Mindful
Apples are OK, but doughnuts are much tastier…Someone brought doughnuts in to work yesterday, and I ate two of them…I really
shouldn’t have, because I need to lose weight…I think Betty was
trying to sabotage my efforts…I need to go to the gym – I’ve been
so lazy lately….
We Can Shift From Narrative To Mindful
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Which Underlies Leadership Development
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Neuroscience: We Are Not Mindful!
Our minds have a Default Mode Network…
…that correlates with Narrative Mind!
Apples are OK, but doughnuts are much tastier…Someone brought
doughnuts in to work yesterday, and I ate two of them…I really shouldn’t have, because I need to lose weight…I think Betty was trying to sabotage
my efforts…I need to go to the gym – I’ve been so lazy lately….
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Mindfulness & Brain Activity
fMRI image from Farb 2007
Narrative
Mindful
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Mindfulness Training
fMRI image from Farb 2007
Narrative
Mindful
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Acceptance May Be Overlooked Apples are OK, but doughnuts are much tastier…Someone brought doughnuts in to work yesterday, and I ate two of them…I really
shouldn’t have, because I need to lose weight…I think Betty was
trying to sabotage my efforts…I need to go to the gym – I’ve been
so lazy lately….
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“Being With” Develops Resiliency
…and the “state of the waters” becomes less important
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But High Performers Are Often Perfectionists Who “Fix”
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And We Want to Avoid Discomfort
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The Evidence For “Being With”
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“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and freedom.”
Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning
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