Centrica – Senior Leader Development Programme

ELECTIVE MODULE Managing Self

Mindfulness in Leadership Aim Your mind is all you have. How you

choices and see how outcomes change. Practice • Explore your mind to whatever depth feels appropriate to you – you might feel uncomfortable but also exhilarated. • Meditation and exploration of why you might think you can’t. • Mindful writing using a part of your brain that is not accessed through talking. • Mindful walking by engaging the somatic system. • Mindful talking noticing how trust builds and diminishes in relationships. • Mindful groupwork and observing how our interactions effect each other. Action plan • Make a commitment to embedding personal mindfulness practices in everyday activity. • Develop a personal set of mindfulness practices that can be used in work. • Practice self-correcting mechanisms to ensure you apply what you’ve learnt. • Be able to demonstrate to others how mindfulness has the potential to change outcomes.

perceive the world, different events and people changes your choices, actions and relationships. In this elective module you will use a simple, but radical, mindfulness model developed with British Association of Mindful-based approach (BAMBA) in simulated work situations to explore how mindfulness can benefit strategy, decision making, team building, delegating, innovation, collaboration and conflict resolution. Learning objectives 1. Understand the myth of mindfulness as simply a relaxation and resilience tool. Move to another broader and more useful understanding of mindfulness which logically connects to the practical application of mindfulness in the organisational context. 2. Use mindfulness in a learning setting, where it is safe to explore and experiment, to find out what tools will be most impactful when back in the work environment. 3. Apply the practice of mindfulness to different situations, make different

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