mindfulness-based
emotional intelligence
What do you love
about your work?
What are some of your
biggest challenges?
Dyad
How was the
exercise?
What would make
this a successful
day for you?
Dyad: Mindful Listening
It’s a
VUCA
world…
Volatile
Uncertain
Complex
Ambiguous
what
to do?
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
“The ability to monitor one’s own
and others’ feelings and emotions,
to discriminate among them and to
use this information to guide one's
thinking and actions.”
Salovey and Mayer, 1990
how?
• Self-
Awareness
• Self-
Regulation
• Motivation
• Empathy
• Social Skills
“Knowing one’s
internal states,
preferences,
resources and
intuitions.”
Daniel Goleman,
Working with Emotional Intelligence
mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The awareness that
arises from
paying attention
on purpose,
in the present
moment,
non-judgmentally”
EI is
trainable
mindfulness
meditation
Attention Training
And the
science?
London
Left Hippocampus
Neuroplasticity occurs from
mindfulness training
(Hӧlzel et al 2011)
Amygdala
Pre-Frontal
Cortex
Mindfulness training (8 weeks)...
(Hӧlzel et al 2013)
MBSR führt zu einer Verbesserung der
Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem präfrontalen
Kortex und der Amygdala
Anxiety symptoms
Connectivity
Clinical relevance
Amygdala
... leads to enhanced ‚connectivity‘
between prefrontal cortex and amygdala.
Attention
(Slagter, Davidson, et al 2007)
Less emotional
exhaustion,
greater job
satisfaction
Improve visuo-
spatial processing,
working memory,
and executive
function
Psoriasis
heals faster
Increase
Immunity
(Hülsheger et al., 2012)
(Zeidan, F., Johnson, S. K.,
Diamond, B. J., David, Z., &
Goolkasian, P., 2010)
(Jon Kabat-Zinn et al., 2012)
(Davidson, Kabat-Zinn, et al 2003)
Tame your Monkey Mind in a Vuca World - Search Inside Yourself

Tame your Monkey Mind in a Vuca World - Search Inside Yourself