Your home for wholistic transformation for Equity and Justice
We help individuals and teams connect deeper with themselves and each other. We specialize in using evidence-based methods to support organizations in tackling inequities from every direction - from the individual level by managing implicit biases, all the way up to the systemic level by removing unequal organizational policies.
Why Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence?
You will learn tools to become more aware of your mental, physical, and emotional state and to work skillfully with all. The practice is completely secular/non-religious, providing the equivalent of stretching and strength-training for your mind.
Thousands of studies now show that meditation and other mindfulness exercises are one of the best ways to stay mentally well and agile. We cover the stressors faced daily in our lives, and how a wide variety of meditation and mindful awareness techniques can assist you in dealing with them skillfully in the moment and processing them after-the-fact.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the act of bringing receptive attention to our physical, mental, and emotional states in a given moment.
In doing so, we gain greater capacity to understand our full experience, decrease reactivity, and increase choice and control in our lives. We take ourselves out of auto-pilot.
How Being Mindful Changes Our Lives
Helps you sleep better
This is one of the most widely reported benefits of meditation - help in falling asleep faster, feeling more rested, and being able to fall back asleep after waking during sleep.
Improves attention & concentration
The Chicago Bulls, Golden State Warriors, curse-ending Cubs team, and many more have employed mindfulness techniques to elevate physical performance under pressure.
Decreases anxiety, depression, and stress levels
Hundreds of studies now show that meditation and mindfulness can reduce stress, depression, and anxiety indexed by a wide variety of measures - self-reporting, neuro-physiological markers, and cortisol levels.
Pain Reduction
Mindfulness courses such as ours are now used in hospitals throughout the world, after studies showed it worked better than controls in managing chronic pain.
I work in a stressful environment and found the tools I learned from Mental Fitness to be invaluable.
I would recommend to anyone wanting to improve the quality of their thoughts and emotions to take this course.
- Emily, 6-wk public course for first responders
Testimonials
Madison created a very calm, warm and inviting space to ask questions and learn as a group.
- Grace, 5-wk course through private employer client
I took the course seeking a way to improve my mental outlook and recharge during the work day. The Mental Fitness course absolutely did this and exceeded my expectations of how useful these tools could be at work and at home!
- Student in 5-wk course for state department executive mgmt team
"Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
Victor Frankl, Holocaust Survivor
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