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Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves." What are the qualities that make for a great leader? How can a leader engage, support and inspire their team? And, importantly, how does the cultivation of mindfulness enhance the qualities associated with effective leadership?
Michael Bunting, author of The Mindful Leader, will be sharing his insights and experience on these and other important questions. He has worked with corporations and organisations for many years in Australia and around the world helping them to cultivate both wise and mindful leaders.
Meeting Recording: https://monash.zoom.us/rec/share/4h-jYg5JpNzoDxQQUpFEWrq4FSf0ltckTl0xdvRkuznVpI_WfiMq5AEfvstqkkVx.cSoIdie1rn1bOuIt
Access Passcode: HSWua7&.
This current period in history has been enormously challenging, uncertain and, for many, stressful. When stress builds there is a natural tendency to experience anger and frustration and to become more self-interested. This is entirely understandable but unfortunate because what is most needed at such times are the opposite: compassion and common humanity.
Debbie Ling works in the Social Work department at Monash and is the lead educator on a new Monash online course focusing on this topic. In this webinar we will explore what are compassion and common humanity, what they are not, how compassion and empathy are two different things, and how we can best cultivate compassion and common humanity in our lives.
Meeting Recording: https://monash.zoom.us/rec/share/rHrjQwrqoLhsc6YG9PZDVqSu-8M-a_bbc1NUQX58U50hxClzedqbHJYaoTpLI-hc.7QDK9JTY2j-Mfb47
Passcode: 4gOB.^uf
Ian Gawler is one of Australia's best known and respected meditation teachers. His interest in meditation was originally directed by meditation pioneer, Ainsley Meares, and was born out of his own experience of coping with and recovering from a very aggressive cancer over 40 years ago.
Meditation is simple but, as many people will have found, is not easy. In this webinar Ian will share his insights earned over decades of practicing and teaching meditation. We will explore questions like how can the practice be made pure and simple? Should I, or shouldn't I, aim for results when practicing? Are there any meditation traps or challenges? How can I establish and maintain a consistent practice? How do I know if 'it's going right'?
Meeting Recording: https://monash.zoom.us/rec/share/8Y_dm77y8xRbdhl5UfxfONj-eUqGFlmi6Q0zscIrxSTjAq5mc3b8CgrNT79QpTI.NMF6mHbnOkccNLRC
Passcode: E5&SzxN+
Some think that meditation is a self-centred activity but the opposite is actually the case. It helps us to stop endlessly thinking about ourselves and to engage more fully with the world and people around us.
Some people, such as Ray Good, used mindfulness to become positive change agents in the world and foster constructive entrepreneurship. Ray's journey has taken him from being a world renowned DJ, to a record label owner, to a sustainable seafood restaurant chain owner, and now to being a full-time mindfulness teacher working with a variety of workplaces and corporations. In this webinar we will explore some of the ways in which mindfulness can help us to foster effective change not only in the workplace, but in the wider world.
Meeting Recording: https://monash.zoom.us/rec/share/-aZDtJJ_iHZyFtFVZa0_GCoynwmgEVgKZtJUi2rNlxo17h9HWJBFqS-1UkHBI8SW.-jCtiKV1Ww0x6c1N
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Emma Murray is a high performance coach who has worked with many elite athletes and teams including being a big part of the successful run of the Richmond Football Club. The skills and mindset she teaches incorporates mindfulness and a range of other strategies to not only help people flourish but to also perform at their peak even (especially) in pressure situations. Emma will share her story and insights about how we can bring our A-Game to life.
Meeting Recording: https://monash.zoom.us/rec/share/aO5s39iqc3yCa0FRR9nX-aPxrXvghoxg2_uuzOy-X7-8y2QJgd8Q5ILPPkwpPGy6.Z9ywclG3Nx5oZXUY
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Elise Bialylew is a psychiatrist with a strong and long-term personal and professional interest in mindfulness. She set up the Mindful in May philanthropic initiative which has not only helped many thousands of people to bring mindfulness into their lives but as a charity has also raised substantial funds to bring clean safe drinking water to developing countries. Elise is also the bestselling author of the book, The Happiness Plan.
In this webinar we will be exploring not only Elise's inspiring personal story but also ways to bring mindfulness into one's life, and how mindfulness can support philanthropy, and foster compassion and prosociality. She will also be telling us about her hugely successful Mindful in May initiative.
Meeting Recording:
https://monash.zoom.us/rec/share/gCFoPQQCfZIY72YwRWq-YZY9mMD550sEAzr6zAhC8ZHne41bQvmRRoPqlIN3jXYq.hGXTlPlqFnCatLfF
Access Passcode: !%1?^FtX
Martin Hosking is co-founder of the highly successful technology company, Redbubble, where he was the CEO and Managing Director from July 2010 until February 2021. In recent years he has also been a committed meditation practitioner.
In this conversation we will explore Martin's perspectives on why the world needs contemplative studies and how it might help us to meet contemporary challenges such as mental health problems, conflict, materialism, lack of meaning and distraction.
Children are growing up in an increasingly challenging environment where technology, distraction, social networks and stress are becoming ubiquitous. These can come at a cost as far as mental health, social and emotional development, and learning abilities are concerned.
Addie Wooten is a psychologist and CEO of the enormously successful Smiling Mind mindfulness app.
Janet Etty-Leal is a mindfulness trainer with years of experience of introducing mindfulness to children and schools. She is also the author of the program and book, Meditation Capsules. Addie and Janet will explore the challenges and opportunities for parents and teachers in introducing children to mindfulness as a life-skill and antidote to some of the modern world's challenges.
Meeting Recording:
https://monash.zoom.us/rec/share/ahEvKPCB5tZAU-M7VYm-M_XCFBNQ8it1oHn19OLO66Gk1OvEfLRnajJ1nKlZ6dk.UjLJ0m0_Xt2Kx0ru
Access Passcode: 8W@1FsSe
Shannon Harvey is a health journalist, public speaker and acclaimed documentary maker as well as balancing full work and home lives. Through her own health challenges Shannon learned the importance of mindfulness and healthy lifestyle change. Her most recent documentary, My Year of Living Mindfully, was a challenge she threw down to herself to map her progress as she diligently practised mindfulness for a whole year.
Shannon's mindful journey took her all around the world including to refugee camps in the Middle East to see how mindfulness could help people recover from trauma and heal deep-seated societal divisions. She is invited back to Monash to share her most recent insights on mindfulness having had another year of living mindfulness. These will range from her own ongoing experience as well as what she has gleaned from cutting-edge research and interviewing some of the world's leading mindfulness practitioners and researchers.
The recording can be downloaded from this link
Rob Moodie is a medical doctor, one time head of VicHealth, and now Professor of Global Health at the Nossal Institute of Global Health at the University of Melbourne. Rob has been a long-term practitioner of mindfulness which he has used to help him balance the challenges of demanding working and homelife. He won Victorian Parent of the Year in 2005.
Rob has a wealth of experience in working with indigenous communities in Australia as well as with refugees and in developing countries particularly in Africa. Rob will be sharing his insights in how mindfulness has helped him in his work and what potential it holds on the global stage in meeting some of the social and health challenges facing the world in the 21st century.
The recording can be downloaded from this link