1st Edition
by Juan Humberto Young (Author)
Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training: A Complete Program for Leaders and Individuals
is the first book to link mindfulness training and positive psychology to the leadership, strategy and management issues faced by individuals and organizations.
- Sets out a complete program in
Mindfulness-based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT), a new form of
strengths-based business mindfulness training which enhances
participants’ ability to perceive opportunities, adapt and grow
- Draws
on research from neuroscience, positive psychology, behavioural
finance and management to show how leaders, managers and individuals
can build and maintain more resonant relationships and adapt to constant
change
- Includes real-life vignettes, specific instructions and
a wealth of resources designed to guide experiential learning including
background information, exercises, guidelines, hand-outs, graphics, and
guided audio meditations
- Mindfulness training is increasingly
used in organizational contexts – the author is a pioneer in designing
and delivering training that applies mindfulness and positive psychology
to the strategic challenges of management and business
Reviews by Experts
This
book is important for all who seek to lead organizations, showing how
mindfulness can be combined with the findings from positive psychology
for the benefit of all. The book is not just good theory. It also
provides a step-by-step practical program to cultivate a balance between
motivation for outcomes on the one hand, and compassion toward self and
others on the other. Here are skills that can be learned; skills that
can truly inspire and sustain wise leadership. ―Mark Williams,
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford, was
also the Founding Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. Now Senior
Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry of Oxford University. Author
of "Mindfulness: An Eight week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic
World", Co-author with Zindel V. Segal and John Teasdale of
"Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression".
In
today's disruptive times, it is happy and loyal customers that count.
This rich and practical book provides an exceptionally smart learning
tool to help consumers make mindful decisions that lead to happiness.
And for any leader and manager it is a key reading for making wise
business and marketing decisions that create value.―Bernd Schmitt, Ph.D., Professor, Columbia Business School, New York. Author
of "Experiential Marketing: How to Get Consumers to Sense, Fell, Think
and Act, Relate to your Company and Brands" and "Happy Customers
Everywhere: How Your Business Can Profit from the Insights of Positive
Psychology."
Juan Humberto Young is the first to integrate
positive psychology and mindfulness with a results-oriented focus on
business strategy. In today's ever-changing organizations, leaders need
clarity and flexibility to adapt and succeed. Built on leading-edge
science, this book offers a step-by-step program that will light your
path not only to greater strategic awareness but also to greater
well-being.―Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D., Kenan, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author
of the two bestsellers "Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the
Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life" and "Love 2.0: Finding
Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection".
Juan
Humberto Young integrates mindfulness practices, positive psychology,
and extensive business experience to design a practical training program
that improves personal and professional decision-making. This book
offers tools to make decisions that increase subjective well-being
because the sources of much unhappiness are poor decisions. For business leaders, lawyers, negotiators, and everyone who wants to improve their quality of life, this book presents a path to achieve the capacity of strategic awareness, consisting of mental lucidity, emotional clarity, and bodily awareness, which results in skillful decision-making. This book provides readers an ideal way to find happiness, personal balance, and professional success.—Peter H. Huang, J.D. Ph.D., Professor and DeMuth Chair of Business Law, University of Colorado Law School. Author of numerous articles integrating Positive Psychology, Mindfulness and Law.