Our efforts to bring mindfulness into the workplace have been influenced by our founder’s tenure as a human resources professional. Through many years of working with both leadership and staff in the workplace, it has become evident to her the enormous potential benefits mindfulness has to offer the workplace.
Research within the field of mindfulness would suggest, workplace mindfulness offers the possibility of enhancing not only employee health and well-being, but also, performance and cooperation.
Our mindfulness programming can be tailored to the specific needs of your organization, and can include:
- Lunch and learns
- Workshops
- Team Retreats
- Training programs
- Consultation
Reach out to us via our contact page to learn how mindfulness can support your people and organization.
Making the Case for Workplace Mindfulness
Most employers today recognize the impact employee health and well-being has on the function and bottom line of the workplace. Simply put, when employees aren’t doing well, productivity suffers and organizational costs rise.
Over the past four decades, the medical field has developed a much greater understanding of the relationship between stress and health outcomes. We now understand chronic stress creates a physiological and mental load on the body/mind that over time can lead to physical deterioration, disease, and psychological maladjustment. In addition, research suggests one’s perception of stress has an influence on their likelihood to engage in health risk behaviors.
This may lead employers to question how to develop wellness programming that will help employees manage stress while also encouraging healthier lifestyle choices to reduce health risks.
The Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace
Mindfulness, an integrative, mind-body approach to paying attention to the present moment, can assist in relating to experiences with greater serenity and clarity while effectively mobilizing a person’s inner resources to cope, heal, and grow.
A recent meta-analysis of workplace mindfulness suggests that mindfulness practices can help individuals manage stress while also enhancing psychological well-being in the workplace. In addition, the benefits of mindfulness can also include improvements in working memory, focus, creativity, problem-solving, mental flexibility, adaptability, resilience, emotional intelligence, communication, interpersonal relationships, and enhanced kindness and empathy within the workplace.
This would suggest mindfulness can be harnessed to positively impact not only individual health and well-being in the workplace but also increase performance and cooperation, among individuals, departments and teams.
Companies and Organizations we’ve worked with…
What employers have to say…
Amy Schonhoff with Mindfulness in the Heartland is an amazing presenter! CommunityAmerica scheduled her to present as a part of our Virtual Lunch & Learn Series. The event was a huge success and everyone LOVED IT! Amy did an incredible job presenting and keeping the group engaged. She provided great tips and ideas to apply mindfulness into our lives along with an informative and engaging presentation. We truly appreciate the time, care, and passion Amy poured into creating this event. We also appreciated greatly the “5 Strategies for Managing Stress” that she created and shared with us as a follow up to all participants. We are immensely grateful for the opportunity to have Amy present to our people and help them learn to apply mindfulness strategies in their own lives. I would highly recommend Amy Schonhoff with Mindfulness in the Heartland and we look forward to partnering with her again in the future.
– Debra O’Bryan, Dream Manager/Well-Being Manager for CommunityAmerica Credit Union
Amy’s calm and gentle demeanor coupled with her passion for sharing the life-changing practices of mindfulness make her a wonderfully engaging presenter. As a teacher, her life experiences inform her style and create the psychological safety necessary for transformative learning. She’s flexible and innovative and a delight to work with.
– Emily Thoroughman, Wellness Program Manager at Veterans United