By Julie Luzarraga, LICSW, DCSW Leadership in the Present is a program designed to teach participants how to bring mindfulness skills to the unique lives of leaders and executives looking to deepen their existing skills and increase their effectiveness as leaders both personally and professionally. Mindfulness is an intentional practice of cultivating awareness both internally and externally. There is a variety of techniques for practicing mindfulness. The common components of any mindfulness practice are: creating the intention; ...
Read MoreBy David Gelles Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 Review by Bonnie Horrigan Approximately twenty-five hundred years ago, Buddha told his disciples: “It is through the establishment of the lovely clarity of mindfulness that you can let go of grasping after past and future, overcome attachment and grief, abandon all clinging and anxiety, and awaken an unshakable freedom of heart, here and now.” And so began the flourishing of Buddhist contemplative practices in ...
Read MoreBy Adam Perlman, MD, MPH, FACP As we attempt to transform our healthcare system through the adoption of an integrative approach to care, it has become clear that to make such a shift, we need leaders who are not only dedicated to the values inherent in integrative medicine but who can also think critically, create collaborative environments, develop strategic approaches to change and inspire excellence throughout an organization. A grant from The Bravewell Collaborative in 2013 to develop a program that ...
Read MoreBy Jeffrey Brantley, MD If you want to know how an apple tastes, it doesn't help much to read or think about apples, even if you read or think a lot about apples! If you want to know how an apple tastes, you have to bite the apple and experience the taste of the apple. To really know apples well, you will probably have to bite and experience the taste of many bites of a lot of apples! Knowing — through repeated, ...
Read MoreBy Lori Knutson, RN, BSN, HNB-BC INTEGRATIVE LEADERSHIP IS A SOCIAL IMPERATIVE We may define the elements of Integrative Leadership in the following way: Integrative: “Serving or intending to unify separate things” Leadership: “Going before or with to show the way” Those of us who have been in the integrative health field know that health is much more than a symptom, disease, illness, or disability. These are the physical manifestations of the world around us and the world within us. The science of epigenetics now ...
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