Leading Mindfully: How to Have Real Conversations About Mental Health
Dear Mindful Leader,
Thanks to widespread efforts (like Mental Health Awareness Month) to educate and reduce stigma, it’s becoming easier to have honest conversations about mental health. More companies than ever are putting?emphasis on employee mental-health services, including?corporate mindfulness-training programs that can support reductions in stress and anxiety?for leadership and employees alike. Yet, even when the frameworks are in place to help us attend to our mental health, it’s often our own self-judgments, our expectations, goals and fears, that lead to bottling up our struggles—instead of being honest with ourselves and reaching out for support if needed.?
While it’s not always easy to have real conversations about mental health at work, mindfulness can help us to question our biases, drop the judgment, and lead with?compassion for ourselves and others. For leaders like Scott Shute—a keynote speaker, author, and former Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn—nurturing an authentic corporate culture where mental health is a priority starts by modeling it with your teams. “When a leader shares some of their own journey, some of their own struggles, it gives the rest of the organization an umbrella of safety to have real conversations,” says Shute. And, by making it clear that our vulnerabilities aren’t failures, “we’re all able to be real, and the healing emerges.”
Explore the resources below to find tried-and-true advice for creating a culture of mindful compassion that creates space for workplace mental health.?
4 WAYS TO CREATE SPACE FOR WORKPLACE MENTAL HEALTH
How Mindful Communication Makes Us More Compassionate - by Susan Gillis Chapman
By pausing to notice the way we respond to others, we can open ourselves up to more honest communication.?Learn More
6 Ways to Build a Culture of Compassion - by Scott Shute
Scott Shute, the former head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn, shares a few simple gestures that can help foster compassion in our workplaces, families, and communities. Learn More
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How Leaders Can Walk Their Well-Being Talk - by Jen Fisher
With job resignation and burnout on the rise, leaders have the opportunity to shift workplace culture toward empowering mental health.?Learn More
The Importance of Supporting Each Other at Work - by Mindful Staff
Chief Medical Officer & VP Global Health Diana Han shares why employees at Unilever are never more than one conversation away from a peer when it comes to support.?Learn More
A PRACTICE TO COME HOME TO YOURSELF
“Having a tool to help us remain centered and well remains critically important. I look at this as an aspect of prevention,” writes She Ventures founder and CEO Georgina Miranda.?“We exercise our bodies, eat well, and get adequate sleep to remain healthy and keep our immunity levels high—it’s best not to wait to start these things only after a major?health?crisis.”?For many, a regular meditation practice is a highly effective (and free!) part of their preventative?health?routine.?
?Check out this?12-minute guided meditation?to cultivate an inner groundedness and ease, no matter what’s going on around you.
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