Mindful Leadership: Purposeful Pauses To Lead & Live With Excellence - by Janice Marturano

COURSE

Mindful Leadership: Purposeful Pauses To Lead & Live With Excellence

With Janice Marturano

Today's world asks us to juggle high pressure situations at work, complex family needs and community responsibilities. It can feel overwhelming and we often learn to cope by going on autopilot. We go through the motions but rarely bring our best selves to anything. This living on autopilot affects our ability to be creative, to make the best decisions, to communicate well, to connect deeply with family, and even to get a good night's sleep. In this course, you will learn simple, universal trainings that I call Purposeful Pauses. These mini-trainings of your mind will teach you to interrupt the autopilot and tap into your innate ability to be present and to listen to your own wisdom. And, best of all, Purposeful Pauses do not add anything to your already too long 'to-do' list. Whether you lead a company, a team, a classroom or a family, you can learn to lead, and live, with excellence. I hope you will join me and explore for yourself the power of taking a Purposeful Pause.

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Meet your Teacher

Janice Marturano
New Jersey, USA

Founder and Executive Director, Institute for Mindful Leadership Former Vice President, Public Responsibility and Deputy General Counsel, General Mills Inc. Author, Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership. Janice Marturano is the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Mindful Leadership, a non-profit organization dedicated to training and supporting professionals in the exploration of mindful leadership and its impact on the cultivation of excellence. She founded the Institute in January, 2011, after ending her 15 year tenure as Vice President, Public Responsibility and Deputy General Counsel for General Mills, Inc. Janice was a senior strategic leader within General Mills before leaving to dedicate herself full time to the Institute. While a corporate officer at General Mills, she co-developed and taught the very first mindful leadership curricula which then began to spread throughout the company and, since 2006, to thousands of leaders at organizations around the world. As a certified teacher of mindfulness and an experienced former senior officer of a Fortune 200 company, she has brought the intensive training of mindful leadership to all forms of organizations-corporate, non-profit, academic, government and military. In 2013, she was invited to introduce her approach to developing mindful leadership to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and in 2014, she was invited to teach an encore mindful leadership workshop at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin, China. Janice’s work has been featured in the BBC, Huff Post Live, NY Times, Financial Times, Time magazine, CEO magazine and Forbes. She is the author of the award winning, international best-selling book, ‘Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership’ and a Forbes contributor.

10 Days

2.9k students

4.7 stars

12 min / day

Performance

English

Lesson 1

What Exactly Is A Purposeful Pause?

Starting Your Day: Today you will explore the definition of a Purposeful Pause and why it is both a simple mini-training for your mind and an anchor to the present moment. The first Purposeful Pause you will be invited to try will help you learn to 'start your day' rather than letting the day start you. You may be surprised by how this small practice can set up your entire day.

Lesson 2

Getting From Here To There

Today you will learn how to use commuting time as a way to train your mind and open to your own wisdom. You are going to commute to and from work anyway, why not use that time to strengthen your ability to be focused and have greater clarity?

Lesson 3

What Lunch? Did I Eat Today?

Is that a common question for you? Are you sometimes unsure of what you had for lunch, or whether you had any lunch? Today you will learn about the need for your mind and body to take a midday Purposeful Pause. And you will hear about a myth...the myth of multitasking and how it reduces your ability to live your best life...at work and at home.

Lesson 4

The Connections Needed To Really Communicate

How often do you feel that you are not being heard? Or, have you been told that you don't hear others? Effective communication skills is a critical component of leading and living with excellence. Today you will explore how Purposeful Pauses can help you learn to strengthen the connections needed to really communicate.

Lesson 5

Regaining Your 20/20 Vision

It can be so easy to see things clearly when we are looking at them the next day. What does it take to have some of that clarity 'in the moment'. Today you will learn what is happening in your brain in moments of high stress. And you will learn ways of working with that reactivity that can help you learn to respond rather than react.

Lesson 6

The Power Of Gratitude

One of the most powerful allies you have in your journey to lead and live with excellence is your ability to cultivate gratitude. Today you will learn what gratitude really is (hint: it is not the same as being thankful for something given to you), you will practice with a guided gratitude meditation, and you will learn to bring a simple gratitude Purposeful Pause practice into your life.

Lesson 7

Replacing The Inner Critic With A Good Friend

We have the capacity to say critical things to ourselves that we would never consider saying to anyone else. And, too often we begin to believe things that have little basis in fact. What if a reflective Purposeful Pause could begin the work of really looking at the voice of the inner critic, and challenging its veracity? What would be different if the inner critic begins to fade?

Lesson 8

Who Needs Sleep?

The medical profession tells us there is an epidemic of sleep-deprived professionals. Even when we are tired, we sometimes can't sleep through the night. And inadequate sleep affects every system in your body. So, the answer to the question, 'who needs sleep?' is you! In today's session, you will look at simple steps, including a Purposeful Pause, that can help you get to sleep, and stay asleep.

Lesson 9

Are You Leading And Living With Excellence?

What keeps you from living your best life, or following your passion? Is it what people or assessments have told you are your limitations, or strengths? Yes, sometimes your strengths can also limit you. For example, have you taken on assignments or accepted promotions you didn't really want because someone told you 'you will be great at this'? Today's exploration may give you the beginnings of your answers to these questions as you learn to use a Purposeful Pause reflection to explore your true potential.

Lesson 10

What Now? Going Forward

Today you will have a chance to look back at the many ways you can bring simple practices into all aspects of your life...at work and at home. During this course, you have seen how Purposeful Pauses, and short mindfulness practices, can become a way of being with your life that allows you to step off of autopilot and lead and live with excellence. It is now up to you to customize these practices to fit with your life so you can more often influence 'for better'!

Ask your teacher

This course includes 32 community questions and 10 audio replies from Janice Marturano. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Sarah

September 17, 2023

A wonderful series. A fine teacher!

Paul

December 19, 2021

I found this both informative and inspiring, and will likely listen again at a future date as well as read her book "Finding the Space to Lead. "

akshay

September 24, 2021

Beautiful course. Very helpful. Thank you for this.

Spencer

May 20, 2021

Janice was an amazing teacher through this course, it was insightful and well worth my time everyday

Crystal

May 16, 2021

Excellent

Ana

April 4, 2021

Thank you so much dear Janice for this course. It was wonderful to meet you and I loved your advice, teachings and kindness. Many blessings and peace to you 🙏💞💐✨

Amy

March 18, 2021

Practical and meaningful. A great resource to come back to. And her voice is so soothing and pleasant! Thank you.

Diana

February 4, 2021

Great course: a variety of very useful suggestions with a common theme. Looking forward to read the book Finding the space to lead, which I decided to purchase after following this course

Eli

December 24, 2020

Many common sense ways relax and stay focused.

Stephanie

May 23, 2020

Want to go back to review some sessions

Vincent

May 23, 2020

Very insightful thank you 🙏🏻

Mike

May 21, 2020

Helpful to put these pauses into daily life and activity. This is the purpose ouf meditating for me. Thank you.

Emily

May 19, 2020

This has been a really wonderful addition to my life. It helps me approach leadership in a new way and preserve my sanity as I adapt to new challenges.

Rebecca

May 13, 2020

Very thoughtful about how to awaken the inner self.

Bob

May 5, 2020

The course really resonated with me. Highly recommend it.

Eric

April 30, 2020

Clear; concise and high impact. Leaves me fully prepared.

Linda

April 25, 2020

Life changing and empowering. The best Mindfulness course ever.

Laura

April 19, 2020

Fantastic course. Practical ideas and practices for creating a better life. I’ll do this course again in a few months because the tools provided here are exactly what I need.

Anne

April 17, 2020

Very practical suggestions and practices. I loved her soothing voice as it helped put me in a relaxed state of mind. I’m listening again to get even more out of it! This is a great one!

KatieG

April 16, 2020

Very direct, pragmatic tools for everyday for a more fulfilling life. Thank you!

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