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  • 14 - Awakening at work: introducing mindfulness into organizations

  • from Part III - Applications
  • Edited by Jochen Reb, Singapore Management University, Paul W. B. Atkins, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Mindfulness in Organizations
    Published online:
    05 July 2015
    Print publication:
    30 June 2015, pp 333-354

  • Summary

    Introduction

    In this chapter, I discuss implementing mindfulness into organizations, with emphasis on Monsanto and Google as examples. I summarize research by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society conducted from 2000 to 2004 and published in 2004 on early attempts at forming contemplative organizations. I discuss not only the benefits for individuals and organizations but also how each organizational culture requires different framing and language. I also discuss concerns from the dharma community that introducing mindfulness encourages organizations, especially corporations, to continue unwholesome practices by helping employees be more content with their work. This chapter proposes that mindfulness and related practices can lead to insight and then to wisdom and compassion, encouraging new forms of inquiry and creativity, potentially taking organizations and their leaders from good to great and from great to wise and compassionate. The chapter suggests that future research is needed to explore and document the transformative impact of mindfulness training on both the individual and the organization.

    History

    The exploration of the integration of mindfulness practices into corporate settings described in this chapter began when the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society – which I co-founded with two foundation presidents, Charles Halpern (Nathan Cummings Foundation) and Robert Lehman (Fetzer Institute) – carried out a search for organizations that were using these practices. I had first studied mindfulness in 1970 with the Burmese teacher S. N. Goenka, a pioneer in the introduction of secular mindfulness, in Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha had been enlightened, and then studied with Tibetan teachers including Kalu Rinpoche, Gelek Rinpoche, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche. I had also taught mindfulness at retreat centers across the United States and had introduced the practice to the sixty-five employees of Illuminations, Inc., a company I co-founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1978. So I was enthusiastic about introducing mindfulness to mainstream organizations.

The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature
  • Edited by Scott Herring
  • Published online:
    05 June 2015
    Print publication:
    19 May 2015
  • This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.

The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature
  • Edited by David Hillman, Ulrika Maude
  • Published online:
    05 June 2015
    Print publication:
    19 May 2015
  • This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body.

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