The more mindful your staff the less time off due to injury, lower health insurance claims for employers, and less resident aggression.

For seniors Care leaders, mindfulness-based interventions reduce distress and improve well-being. Mindfulness underpins the keys to Emotional Intelligence and Compassionate Leadership … self-awareness, self-management, and emotional skills.

Search Inside Yourself (SIY) teaches the neuroscience behind mindfulness and how to cultivate it as the foundation skill that enables Emotional Intelligence, a calm and clear mind, and Compassionate Leadership.

Bridging age-old mindfulness practice and modern neuroscience, Mary Ellen has seen SIY help Seniors Care leaders bring out the best in themselves and others.

The program is best suited if you’re looking for:

• Reduced work-related stress and psychological distress … especially in difficult situations.
• Decreased turn-over and burnout.
• Better judgement.
• Increased Emotional Intelligence.
• Improved general health

The Leaders’ mindfulness program includes:

• Pre & post SIY program assessments.
• Live in-person training with the full 2-day program. Shorter versions are also available to introduce key principles (keynotes, half-day or one-day).
• 4-weeks of recommended peer-to-peer practices to sustain and integrate learning and self-directed growth from the inside-out.
• Training your internal champion to host meditations using our guided meditations. They’ll learn how to create the psychological safety for participants to fully engage in the meditation practice.
• Access to ten recorded meditations.

Best suited for front-line staff to gain the benefits research has found for leaders, as well as the benefits noted from research done specifically in Seniors Care:

• Lower injuries
• Increased levels of Person-Centered Care.
• A compassionate culture that’s focused on well-being and growth.

Hosting and promoting 12-minute mindfulness practices during work hours keeps your mindful initiative moving forward and re-enforces your organization’s commitment by allowing employees the time to practice.

Doing actual meditations is the “at the gym, dedicated” practice we highlighted in the SIY Program. You can think of the different meditations we include in the program as exercising a different set of mindfulness muscles, sort of like how the elliptical machine and treadmill at the gym exercise a similar but different set of muscles.

Meditations are “at the gym Dedicated” practice

The Front-LIne Staff Mindfulness program includes:

• Pre & post program assessments on mindfulness in challenging situations and compassion.
• Virtual Training … 2 x 20 minute virtual lessons done in real-time facilitated by Mary Ellen (via zoom call).
• Hosting and training regular meditation sessions internally.
• Training your internal champion to host sessions using our guided meditations. They’ll learn how to create the psychological safety for participants to fully engage in the meditation practice.
• Access to five recorded meditations to support staff expanding their skills of
  • Focused attention
  • Self-awareness
  • Self-regulation
  • Compassion & Empathy
  • Self-compassion

To get the most from this program, it’s recommended to be part of a larger Mindfulness and Compassionate Leadership initiative.

Our practical mindfulness programs combine the best of modern science with our umpteen years supporting leaders and teams in Seniors Care.

We use the proven principles of adult learning to get people into the learning zone.

We work with you to develop strategies for your team to integrate mindfulness into their daily work so the learnings “stick”.

Participants increase their skill level by practicing mindfulness regularly so that when they have challenging days, they don’t “throw out baby with the bathwater”. The program enhances their appraisal skills, so they don’t negate the entire improvement they’ve gained because of a bad day.