High-Performance Teams are Masters of Mindfulness Meditation
High-performance teams are masters of mindfulness. The individual team members have high self-awareness. They know who they are, how they feel, and what they want. They always know the right thing to do or say at the right moment. They are aware of the impact of everything they do or say to each other. Teams in this state have high group awareness—as a team they know who they are, how they feel, and what they want together. Some teams get into this state by accident, and others are intentional and get there on purpose.
To get into this state of mindfulness and high performance on purpose, Richard incorporates elements of the work of Jim and Michele McCarthy and the Core Protocols, Woody Zuill and Mob Programming, contemporary meditation teachers, and his own work with meditation and Core Protocols.
In this session, we practice ways to get into a state of group mindfulness, including Core Protocols such as emotional check-in, personal alignment, investigate, and group alignment. We also practice some short guided meditations. Attendees leave with embodied knowledge of activities to bring more mindfulness to their work teams.
Outline/Structure of the Workshop
Mindfulness
- Activity: reflect on your current mindfulness practice
- Mindfulness definitions
- Activity: meditation - focus, wander, return
- Intentional practice and study
- Activity: meditation - count your breaths
- Current mindfulness & meditation practice
- Activity: meditation - what is happening now
Mindfulness and tech teams
- Example of a high-performing team. Mob programming. Shared vision. Focus, wandering, returning.
- Mob programming is group mindfulness
- Current state of research and practice on mindfulness at work
- Where is mindfulness possible
- How you can do it with your team
Mindfulness and your team
- Activity: individual emotion check-in
- Activity: group emotion check-in (pairs)
- Love
- Activity: conclusion - what is your next step?
Learning Outcome
You’ll leave knowing:
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Mindfulness: what it is and why it’s important for you as an individual
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Individual mindfulness and meditation practice: techniques for getting started
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Group mindfulness: what it is, its relationship to mob programming in particular and agile teams in general, and techniques for getting started
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Research supporting mindfulness and meditation at work
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Techniques for self-awareness
Target Audience
Everyone
Prerequisites for Attendees
none
Links
https://kasperowski.com/meditate-and-motivate/
schedule Submitted 4 years ago
Recent Activities
Call for Proposals CLOSED
Ended on Feb 11 '19 03:00 PM EST
Session Lengths
The conference program features several session lengths for submitters to choose from when submitting their session:
- Deep Dive (180 minute session with a 15 minute break) – The program offers a limited number of Deep Dive sessions to allow for in-depth exploration and/or experience with a related topic.
- Workshop (90 minutes) – Most of the conference program is allocated into 90 minute sessions that allow for hands-on facilitation, demonstrating, and debriefing of a game or activity supportive of the conference objective.
- Fast Games (20 minutes) – We offer several short time slots that focus on fast games (games that can be played and debriefed in ~15 minutes or less) – these fast games sessions are intended to play / facilitate a specific activity or game without going into the details / concepts upon which the game is based.
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