Action from FDP session - Mindfulness and Emotional Resilience

 I was thrilled to be invited to be a part of the Faculty Development Program of Anjuman College of Hotel and Tourism Management Studies and Research.  This program is spread over a week and has other external faculty like myself, who are covering different aspects of the theme "Wellness to Wisdom".

All the faculty invited for this Program

I opted for the topic, Mindfulness and Emotional Resilience for Educators.  The challenge - only two and a half hours to cover such a fascinating and deep topic.  I had a further discussion to understand how this topic came up, and based on this, I put the components of my session together.

Through facilitator led discussions, I covered how emotions can create distortion of reality and facts, what emotional resilience contains, the difference that a Growth Mindset can make, the fallacy of multi-tasking and it's links to stress and productivity, mindfulness and got them to practice a mindfulness journaling exercise.  

The faculty participants marvelously did their part of being student learners, with insightful questions and comments.  They made the session more interesting and impactful, especially when they took up a specific action to put into practice.

                                          

Practical Expectations Captured

Key Insight and one Action

Dr. Harish Suvarna, the Principal presents me a memento on behalf of the organization

My gratitude to the Principal, Mr. Harish Suvarna, the faculty and particularly Ms. Priyanka Kandalkar for the warm hospitality they provided to me throughout my time there.  I wish them all the best, and look forward to working with them again in future.

Do connect with me on +919820155778 if you want your people to experience such topics.

Action from Leadership Quotient - Emotional Intelligence Workshop

Here are some glimpses of Workshop on Leadership Quotient - Emotional Intelligence conducted for the leaders of a Mumbai-based large organization.

There were 2 days of two separate batches of leaders, and let me say that the enthusiasm and curiosity of the participants in both batches really made the learnings more powerful.

We covered how Emotional Intelligence affects the leader's ability to build relationships with their team members and their peers, in addition to naming emotions, and what goes on in the brain.  The participants also went through a facilitated process on how to create positive emotions at the workplace.

Do connect with me on +919820155778 for conducting leadership workshops for your organizaion.

Pics from Stress Management Workshop

 Here are a few pics of a workshop on Stress Management that I conducted for my client in the BFSI space.

The participants from the middle and junior levels from different functions of the organization.  I am thankful for their whole-hearted participation in the exercises and for their insightful questions during the workshop, which made the entire experience wonderful both for them and for me.  

While they identified the causes of stress on their own, I shared with them a guided meditation exercise, and a journaling method  both of which they found very useful.

Participant Expectations

Reviewing the Causes of Stress

Journaling

While they built their action play, they also shared on the sticky wall, specific things they will put into practice.

Learnings that they will put into practice

Choosing your Mood - Every Day, Every Time

This post is about choosing our moods on a daily basis.

Some times we do it consciously, but most days we are reacting. 

The above image (image sourced from Pinterest) got me thinking.  Some thoughts about this interesting image (you can substitute the word 'mood' for the word 'chair') :

1) Which of these chairs did you spend the maximum amount of time last week?
2) Which other chairs did you occupy during the week?
3) Which chair would you justify your choice the most, perhaps subconsciously?
4) In this week, which chairs would you intentionally like to spend the most time?
4a) In this week, which chairs would you intentionally like to AVOID spending the most time?
4b) What exactly will you do about these intentions?

Post your responses if you are comfortable, or don't.

Definitely do reflect on them and have a wonderful week.

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Participant Feedback - Emotional Intelligence Workshop

Here are the pictures of my recent one-day workshop on Emotional Intelligence for participants from a financial organization.  The interesting point here is that the participants (not all were managing teams) have nominated themselves for this workshop.  Their interest was evident right from the start, with their questions and participants.

I was able to facilitate a couple of areas and not the entire workshop since there the participants needed content to increase their understanding the topic.  Hence the workshop was a mix of facilitation and training. 

Learning Expectations

 

Participants try to portray and identify each other's emotions

The participants thoughts about what makes a leader (hint - behaviours)

Participants identify ways to manage self, motivation and others

Learnings that participants wish to apply at the end of the workshop

The client feedback received was positive (they enjoyed it, were keen on applying their learnings), and participants wanted it to be of a longer duration.

Do let me know if you would like to conduct such workshops for your teams / organization. Write to me on ryanbbarretto@hotmail.com or call me on +919820155778 for a discussion.