ECI Connects Community Webcast: Integrity: Why We Need ‘Social Mindfulness’ in Organisations
This webinar will seek to explore a very contemporary crisis in meaning and how ‘social mindfulness’ offers a way forward. Starting with thinking about how a modern sense of disconnection has devalued our understanding of integrity, Mark will compare this with his experience in a Sufi community in Istanbul, where he was invited to share his work on ‘social mindfulness’. Then he will share a social and historical perspective on how contemporary mindfulness, which has been extracted from its Buddhist roots, has been reduced to stress reduction, before describing his work applying ‘social mindfulness’ as a way of creating a ‘community of practice’ in organisations.
This event is brought to you by ECI Connects, ECI’s online community, to encourage knowledge sharing and community development. LEPC holders may claim 1.2 LPEC recertification credit.
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ECI reserves the right to cancel this program at its sole discretion.
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ECI will send an electronic certificate of attendance following the webcast.
CEU:
This event is approved for 1.2 CEUs towards LEPC certification.
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Mark LeonardDirectorMark Leonard is a sustainability professional whose experience made him realise that technical approaches to reducing our ‘footprint’ must come with social change to be effective. He has applied his personal search for meaning to seek a way forward and believes that ‘mindfulness’ can save us from ourselves if we apply it to understand how we are social ‘self-creating’ beings. He was involved with fundraising for Buddhist Studies in Oxford and played a key role establishing the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in 2008–2013. He is now a leading thinker/practitioner of ‘social mindfulness’. The curriculum of the programme he developed, Mindfulness-Based Organisational Education, is the first of its kind recognised by the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA) and the Dutch Mindfulness Teachers’ Association (VMBN). He is now sharing the thinking that underpins this approach in the hope that it will help us meet the challenges of these times.
