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Marc Brackett at the 2016 Mindful Leadership Summit. Marc discusses ways to harness the wisdom of emotions through developing the skills of emotional intelligence. He shares tools that help us to develop emotional intelligence in order to better navigate relationships and social networks, influence and inspire others, and achieve both greater personal well-being and professional success.

By Steven Cohen, guest contributor 

These are really crazy times. There is a need to physically distance ourselves from others to avoid the spread of a virus that traveled in an unknown web of human interactions around the world in months. Recommendations about what to do change by the hour, but ultimately, many of us are quarantined in our own houses.  At the same time, we need each other for emotional support and to avoid isolation. We want to be there for our family, friends, customers, coll…

By Joy Reichart, guest contributor 

In these times of massive change and disruption, many of us are starting to look inward to see how we can be of greater support to our families, communities, and the world. Integral Coaching, which is a sustainable, self-generating framework for developing ourselves and others, offers several practical ways to take up this inquiry. 

One of the assessment models we use to help us in this is called the Six Streams of Competence. This model serves to give us a …

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How to Motivate Yourself with Kindness with Kristin Neff, Ph.D. from @Work 2019. Dr. Kristin Neff, an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, illustrates the importance of self-compassion, from the individual, to business context, to use with military veterans. She explains the difference between motivation by self-compassion and self-esteem. Self-compassion is a caring, open, and learning stance towards oneself with a mindset of growth and…

By The Mindful Leader Team

As we collectively face a global pandemic there are two very different responses from the leaders of the world. On one hand - a winner takes all, every man for himself attitude. On the other hand, a world united, solving a common problem and supporting each other. 

At Mindful Leader, with the hope of helping as many people as possible, and modeling the power of a global community uniting to solve a global problem, we created Meditate Together.   

Meditate Together -…

By Mo Edjlali, Mindful Leader's President 

With the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have started using the video conferencing tool Zoom. In fact. according to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan's April 1st statement, their user base went from 10 million people in December to 200 million people in March.  

At Mindful Leader, we have been using Zoom extensively for the last few years. You might be hearing some concerning information about Zoom and I wanted to share what we are doing to address thi…

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From @Work 2018. Leo Babauta founder of Zen Habits, shares his journey of how he transformed his life by changing one habit at a time, and how he used mindfulness to implement these changes. He discusses how he overcame fear, uncertainty, and discomfort with devotion and focusing on his purpose by conditioning new habits with mindfulness and love. He discusses how to use mindfulness to catch the triggers and discomforts, and how to stay balanced between pushin…

Resource Bundles

Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus. 
Greater Good
A list of practices, articles, podcasts, live sessions, and more to help you throughout this pandemic

Coronavirus Sanity Guide (FREE)
Ten Percent Happier 

Pandemic Care Resources
Tara Brach
This list of talks and guided meditations will support you through these difficult times.

Resilience in Challenging Times
Sounds True
In response to the growing uncertainty and heightened stress during this unprecedented time, Sounds True has cre…

By The Mindful Leader Team

Last week, we asked our readers to share their favorite quotes with us on social media and they delivered. Here are some of those quotes, including the one we shared last week as a favorite of the team.

(This quote is from Mother Teresa)