Mindfulness Masterclasses

Each of us has unique strengths which we can harness to our own benefit and that of others. This masterclass focuses on rewiring our mind sets towards a positive outlook, using the Strengths Focus and Spotting Approach. The Strengths Focus and Spotting Approach is our own sense of mastery. It encourages engagement and achievements, and our well-being in many other ways.

Humans are wired to connect. Our brains naturally relate and connect to other people, which is essential for our survival. Connections with other people help us grow, learn, and form an understanding of who we are in the world we live in. This masterclass helps us understand why implementing strengths-based initiatives in our homes, workplaces and interactions improves the role of mindfulness, self-awareness, self-regulation, self-responsibility, and skills development in successful strengths implementation.

How many of us think mindfully before we respond, ask a question, or speak? In this masterclass, I invite you to take a step back and reflect on how we could enrich our relationships with loved ones – our partners, siblings, parents, children, friends and colleagues. Responding to good and bad news, shared by someone we love, with interest, positive gestures, positive emotions (though our facial expressions), and encouraging tones gives the person a great sense of belonging.

Defining Mindfulness as a non-judgemental state of heightened or complete state of awareness of one’s thoughts; emotions or experiences on a moment by moment basis. In Mindfulness based strategic awareness training, the adjective strategic represents an evaluative and discriminative quality of awareness; the ability to know what is good or wrong. Mindful or mind full? Mindfulness means immersing one’s self completely in the moment. This masterclass is an introduction to information and techniques to help you understand how the mind works, and how to manage negative emotions and stress. You’ll learn how a culture of gratitude and appreciation is cultivated through the technique of mindfulness.

Mindfulness – conscious of being aware – can be hindered by bad habits. We stop thinking about what we are doing; what our plans are; what the end goal is; what our purpose in life is; what our sense of achievement is.  Then we are no longer mindful about our actions. When we DEFAULT to AUTOMATIC PILOT MODE, we have no recollection of purpose. This masterclass aims to introduce Habit Hacking to counter our daily bad habits and convert them into mindful and good habits.

Reframing your mind sets and rethinking your thinking have great benefits for our quality of living and relationships. Using Positive Psychology, this masterclass comprises of modules to teach and encourage a new, healthier way of thinking and mindfulness.

In this module participants are invited to deepen their knowledge of human emotions; increasing their ability to distinguish between positive; negative and rich experiences. They will develop an understanding of how human emotions are driven by needs; values; and dilemmas and gain insights in how this understanding can be leveraged to design for positive experience and happiness. Human flourishing is the outcome of subjective well-being. This masterclass comprises of a framework for positive design of the three main components of subjective well-being: pleasure, personal significance, and virtue. Each component represents an ingredient essential to happiness, and we propose that a design that expressly includes all three components of well-being, is the one that promotes positive emotions, positive psychological functioning, and positive social functioning.

Individuals can be optimistic; kind; loving and creative. They can also feel helpless; self centered; unispiring; isolated and even belligerent. Humans all have the potential for growth and flourishing at the same time; negative feelings and thoughts; intermingling with unfavourable circumstances can expose our vulnerabilities and slide us into a state of languishing. Learning techniques to encourage good mental health for individuals leads to authentic confidence. This in turn makes it possible to handle stress while contributing and growing in a healthy and productive manner in personal and/or business life. This masterclass is an introductory module to mindfulness through self-development. The goal of this module is to facilitate an ongoing process of self – development; in which individuals are able to applause the complexity and multiplicity of the self by integrating stressors with strengths; vulnerabilities with values; and risks with resources to develop a resilient and flourishing self.

This masterclass empowers professionals to recognise their talents and unlock their capabilities as individuals, using a Strengths Focus and Strengths Spotting Approach. This will enable individuals to acknowledge their positive levels of competence and worthiness, which balance each other in desirable ways in their personal or business lives.

Successful leaders must be able to handle stress and balance their personal and professional lives. By focusing on the four pillars of leadership – building awareness, making connections, maintaining perspective and achieving potential – leaders work effectively with teams while maintaining a vision of the future. This masterclass is intended to help individuals make wise decisions and choices in life – for the benefit of themselves and the people they are responsible for.

Employee engagement is a critical factor in running a successful business, as it focuses on the nature of the relationship between an organisation and its employees. This masterclass establishes why and how positive attitudes, passion, commitment and discretionary effort in the workplace guarantee success and sustainability for a business.

This masterclass is specifically designed for women leadership which brings into focus the importance of understanding and dealing with the rapid technological changes of the 21^st century, particularly how this may impact the workplace, leadership and management. The incorporation of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) and positive leadership are used to create strategic approaches in meeting and managing technological changes.

In this module participants are invited to deepen their knowledge of human emotions; increasing their ability to distinguish between positive; negative and rich experiences. They will develop an understanding of how human emotions are driven by needs; values; and dilemmas and gain insights in how this understanding can be leveraged to design for positive experience and happiness. Human flourishing is the outcome of subjective well-being. This masterclass comprises of a framework for positive design of the three main components of subjective well-being: pleasure, personal significance, and virtue. Each component represents an ingredient essential to happiness, and we propose that a design that expressly includes all three components of well-being, is the one that promotes positive emotions, positive psychological functioning, and positive social functioning.

Given South Africa’s high level of unemployment, South Africa’s Youth is encouraged to become entrepreneurs. One of the ways of attaining business success, is to work for oneself. In this masterclass, the focus is on the practical application of enterprising qualities, such as initiative, innovation, creativity, technology to advance futuristic skills and risk-taking by the youth in the business world.