Working With Mindfulness: Neuroscience At Work

Mirabai Bush, co-founder of The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and a key adviser to Google’s Search Inside Yourself curriculum, hosts a discussion with neuroscientist and author Dr. Richard Davison, Director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior and the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Learn more about the benefits of mindfulness practices in the workplace and ways to introduce them to their organization’s teams. Topics include:

- Dr. Davidson’s research on meditation as it relates to happiness, distraction, neuroplasticity and recovering from negative information;

- Discussion of key findings from his latest book The Emotional Life of Your Brain;

- Mirabai Bush’s experience with developing the curriculum for Google’s Search Inside Yourself course, including participant reports of reduced stress, increased productivity, and more creative problem solving after taking the course. 

“Most people today are asked to improve performance at work with fewer resources and tighter deadlines, all while dealing with equally stressed co-workers and clients,” said Mirabai Bush, author of the CD Working with Mindfulness. “This combination leads to employee burnout and harms organizations. While people may not have control over stressors at work, mindfulness-based exercises are a scientifically proven, natural way to manage one’s responses to them. This series will allow my colleagues from various industries and disciplines to share their insights of how to bring these practical techniques into the workplace.”