Improving Mindfulness

Improving mindfulness is about understanding yourself and being “in the moment”. Participants will become more mindful of their actions and learn how to express and interpret their present environment. They will create positive connections and increase their self-regulation of attention and personal experiences.

Improving Mindfulness will provide benefits throughout their professional and personal lives. Improving mindfulness through gratitude, filtering, and active listening will give participants the advantage of seeing things in a new light. This course has the ability to give participants an increased recognition of mental events in the present moment which provides countless benefits.

Completing this course will confer 2 CPD Credits towards internationally recognised Continuous Professional Development Requirements within organisations operating this kind of staff development methodology.

Course Outline

Module One: Getting Started

Module Two: What is Mindfulness?

• Buddhist Concept
• Bare Attention
• Memory
• Psychological Concept
• Case Study
• Module Two: Review Questions

Module Three: Practicing Mindfulness

• Mindfulness Meditation
• Attention
• Acceptance
• Scanning
• Case Study
• Module Three: Review Questions

Module Four: Emotional IQ

• Purpose of Emotions
• Performance Emotions
• Swing Emotions
• Blue emotions
• Case Study
• Module Four: Review Questions

Module Five: Cognitive Distortion I

• Dichotomous Reasoning
• Magnification and Minimization
• Filtering (Including Disqualifying)
• Jumping to Conclusions
• Case Study
• Module Five: Review Questions

Module Six: Cognitive Distortion II

• Destructive Labelling
• Personalizing
• Blaming
• The Tyranny of the Should
• Case Study
• Module Six: Review Questions

Module Seven: What is the Self?

• The Physical Self
• The Emotional Self
• The Psychological Self
• The Spiritual Self
• Case Study
• Module Two: Review Questions

Module Eight: Awareness of the Physical Self

• Scanning
• Progressive Relaxation
• Physical Stressors
• Exercise
• Case Study
• Module Three: Review Questions

Module Nine: Time Management

• Organization
• Goal Management
• Priorities
• Procrastination
• Case Study
• Module Four: Review Questions

Module Ten: The Emotional Self

• Validity of Emotions
• Utility of Emotions
• Arousal
• Valence
• Case Study
• Module Five: Review Questions

Module Eleven: Mood Management

• Emotional Intelligence
• Categories of Emotions
• Increasing Arousal
• Decreasing Arousal
• Case Study
• Module Six: Review Questions

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

• Words from the Wise