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"Nothing is good or bad, thinking makes it so"

William Shakespeare

We aim to bring the best of our intelligence and skills to our job but are largely unaware of the extent to which our attention is turned outwards into our activity and away from a realistic observation of our own choices and behaviour. In the absence of this level of self-awareness our thoughts and emotions tend to define how we view what is going on around us and how we deal with the people we work with. We develop a habitual way of dealing with our situation, which limits our potential and constrains how we use our minds.

"[At work, people may see] little variation in how to do their tasks, but they still have other kinds of choices in terms of their attitudes, how they interact with their co-workers, whether they utilize certain inner qualities or spiritual strengths to change their attitudes at work ..."

The Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, The Art of Happiness at Work

The basis of Awareness in Action approach is to examine and question these habitual responses and to introduce a means of transforming how we work with our mind by training it to be peaceful, compassionate and clear-seeing.

Peaceful Mind

Mindfulness is....

......an openhearted, moment-to-moment, non-judgemental awareness...

Meditation is...

... getting in touch with who we are

We train in peaceful mind through becoming familiar with techniques of mindfulness and meditation, which enable us to develop self-awareness, and stability thus calming the mind and making it easier to work with.

Compassionate Mind

"A good head and a good heart are a formidable combination"

Nelson Mandela

We train in compassionate mind through working with a series of techniques to develop empathy, equanimity, kindness and compassion. This leads to an improvement in communication and social skills, and the ability to work well in a team.

Clear Seeing Mind

"All life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is tied to everything else in the universe.”

John Muir

We train in clear-seeing mind through coaching in working with change and interdependence, enabling us to work with situations as they are, rather than as we wish them to be.

"I can recommend the workshop 'Being well at work whole heartily to everyone interested"

M.O.F.M van den Tillaart (MA) Head of the department Job Market and Social Security (Board Financial-Economic Affairs) Department of Social Security, Holland.

".... a set of tools, grounded in pratical wisdom that can change people and organisations. Highly recommended"

David Rand Director, MicroMentor, The Aspen Institute