mindfulness-based emotional intelligence

What do you love about your work?

What are some of your biggest challenges?

Dyad

How was the exercise?

What would make this a successful

day for you?

Dyad: Mindful Listening

It’s a VUCA world…

Volatile

Uncertain

Complex

Ambiguous

what

to do?

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

“The ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.”

Salovey and Mayer, 1990

how?

• Self-Awareness

• Self-Regulation

• Motivation

• Empathy

• Social Skills

“Knowing one’s internal states,

preferences,resources and

intuitions.”

Daniel Goleman, Working with Emotional Intelligence

mindfulness

Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The awareness that arises from

paying attention on purpose,

in the present moment,

non-judgmentally”

EI is trainable

mindfulnessmeditation

Attention Training

And the science?

London

Left Hippocampus

Neuroplasticity occurs from mindfulness training

(Hӧlzel et al 2011)

Amygdala

Pre-Frontal Cortex

Mindfulness training (8 weeks)...

(Hӧlzel et al 2013)

MBSR führt zu einer Verbesserung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem präfrontalen Kortex und der Amygdala

Anxiety symptoms

Con

nect

ivity

Clinical relevanceAmygdala

... leads to enhanced ‚connectivity‘ between prefrontal cortex and amygdala.

Attention

(Slagter, Davidson, et al 2007)

Less emotional exhaustion, greater job satisfaction

Improve visuo-spatial processing, working memory,

and executive function

Psoriasis heals faster

Increase Immunity

(Hülsheger et al., 2012)

(Zeidan, F., Johnson, S. K., Diamond, B. J., David, Z., &

Goolkasian, P., 2010)

(Jon Kabat-Zinn et al., 2012)

(Davidson, Kabat-Zinn, et al 2003)