We offer companies tailored meditation programs for executives, managers and employees. Based on mindfulness and active meditation techniques, people learn the foundations of meditation, practice numerous approaches and build the knowledge to develop a personal practice that works for them best. Well received, these meditation programs provides people with long-term benefits and an immediate lift in their calmness.
The goals of the program are to help employees improve their awareness, concentration, overall energy, innovation problem-solving, stress management and team work. For companies, they create an environment for healthier employees and people more capable of managing growth.
In addition to the extensive and inherently valuable direct health and wellbeing benefits of meditation for staff, there are also key benefits for businesses that include:
- Reduced costs of staff absenteeism caused by illness, injury, stress, long term illness
- Improved cognitive function – including better concentration, memory, learning ability and creativity
- Improved productivity and improved overall staff and business wellbeing
- Reduced staff turnover and associated costs
- Enhanced employer/employee and client relationships
- Reduced Health Insurance premiums for the business
- A visible and tangible Corporate Responsibility stance
- Enhanced employee job satisfaction
“… a growing number of corporations, including Deutsche Bank, Google and Hughes Aircraft offer meditation classes to their workers. Making employees sharper is only one benefit; studies say meditation also improves productivity, in large part by preventing stress-related illness and reducing absenteeism” TIME magazine
“Recent research has shown that meditation is good for the brain. It appears to increase grey matter, improve the immune system, reduce stress and promote a sense of well being. However, according to a study published today in the online edition of the journal PloS Biology, meditation can also affect attention.” New York Times May 2007
“Meditation is now moving into the boardroom with studies showing that it improves concentration… Meditation is a growing business trend that may be coming soon to an office near you. It is cropping up in human resources programs across the country to promote calm as we work overtime, skip lunch, do meeting marathons, save our annual leave, lose sleep over job security and monster mortgages and multi-task like mad in the global recession backwash…Bosses are starting to realise that investing in stress-reduction programs, such as meditation, makes fiscal sense, too.“ The Daily Telegraph
Powerful brands like Google, Apple, Sanyo and McKinsey are among the early adopters to incorporate mindfulness and meditation in the workplace. Below you can watch an introduction to mindfulness meditation, lead by John Kabat Zinn, a world-renowned meditation teacher, at Google headquarter in Silicon Valley, USA.
Eckhart Tolle stops by Google for a fireside chat with Bradley Horowitz. The subject is: “Living with Meaning, Purpose and Wisdom in the Digital Age.”