A Truly Mindful Workplace

We launched the UC San Diego Workplace Initiatives program this past week via a post I submitted for the UCSD Center for Mindfulness blog.  I am thrilled with the partnership and the possibilities!
You can read the entire blog HERE.

Mindful Clarity Launch

Welcome to the launch/re-launch of Mindful Clarity. I have actually merged my two previous blogs (Logic & Harmony and The Daily Altruist) and imported them here. I don't post frequently enough to manage two blogs, much less three!  And all of my various ventures blend together quite nicely- kindness, self-awareness and mindfulness in harmony to bring peace to the world!  Because, as you may know, world peace IS my Life Purpose.

So what is Mindful Clarity?  I am revising my core business to incorporate my newly blossoming love of mindfulness meditation.  Mindful Clarity encompasses my coaching model, my consulting approach and also my determination to bring mindfulness to the world.  It is the vehicle to offer mindfulness and self-awareness programs for schools and workplaces of all kinds.

So much has transpired since I last posted about my then upcoming seminar, Life Skills for Lawyers. This class has begun and been completed, and I am extraordinarily grateful to the brave students who volunteered to participate in the small pilot of this program.  Considering that most lawyers, being of the "Thinking" persuasion, likely pre-judged the seminar to be "fluffy", my students' commitment to themselves and their future-lawyer-selves was inspiring. Lawyers have such a challenge, in blending "normal" life and ideals with the demands of the job. They are paid to fight the fights of others as hired guns. And the difficulty of bringing passion and commitment to these fights, while remaining connected to the humanity of society is one which can break them. 

My experience with the seminar, and the fruits of this initial effort are fodder for an entirely separate post. In the meantime, additional exciting opportunities have arisen that demand mention. 

I have recently partnered with the University of California San Diego Center for Mindfulness (UCSD CFM) as their Director of Workplace Initiatives, to bring the expertise of their trained MBSR staff to offices through workshops and multi-week programs. I am guest blogging for their site and will shortly be officially made part of their team. I intend to also further my integration by becoming trained to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction this summer, 2013. This training and partnership will allow me to not only coordinate workplace programs, but also participate as an instructor and facilitator.  

I have additionally become part of a budding effort to bring mindfulness to the legal community in San Diego:

• I have written a post for the New Lawyer Division of the San Diego County Bar Association, found here.  
• I have published a similar article in the Cal Western Law School paper, the Commentary.  
• I have begun the San Diego Contemplative Lawyers, which is an effort to build a community of like-minded people from the legal field. 
• I have developed and given a short talk on the benefits of mindfulness meditation, called "The Mindful Minute", to a few workplaces. (This talk is perfect for lunch and learns, by the way- contact me for details.)

I have also conducted my first full Myers Briggs Type Indicator Workshop for a group of lovely law librarians in San Diego (SANDALL).  The reviews made my heart warm- Click here to read them and scroll to page 9. 

So all in all, my non-full-time-independent-consultant career so far has been fun. And I have appreciated the ability to go on a field trip with my daughter's class, attend the Holiday programs for both my girls, and maintain sanity for a busy family. Another blog forthcoming on the challenges of mindfully balancing it all as a professional, mother and spouse, later.