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HomeMy WebLinkAboutkeynote-mindfullness-training-micheal-popeAwake to Wellness Presenter: Micheal Pope, CEO/Executive Director What is Mindfulness? What is Joy? What is Wellness? What is my purpose? Bali Institute “…wonderful, transformative organization profoundly investedin the local culture…your staff are smart, caring, and motivated to really educate participants in their programs. Theexperience moved me, challenged me, and inspired me.” University of San DiegoGraduate Student “The Bali Institute is a beautifully designedorganization that allowed me to see a diverse picture of life, tradition, history, culture, and values in Bali. I recommend the Bali Institute without hesitation.” University of San Diego Graduate Student School University Programs in Collaboration with Bali Institute Bali Institute provides custom-designed cultural immersion and service learning programs for university faculty-led courses focused on numerous topics including field biology, global social entrepreneurship, global wellness, alternative medicine, leadership and the creative arts. We also have our own signature training programs in facilitative leadership and social entrepreneurship. We are in active partnerships with the top universities in Bali, allowing innumerable opportunities to connect course content with Balinese academic collaboration. Our offerings can include internships with a variety of social service groups, NGOs, volunteerism, and field study work. All programs provide meetings with remarkable Balinese civic, academic and cultural leaders. We weave our relationships with a wide variety of Balinese cultural leaders into innovative partnerships with student and faculty interests. Bali Institute can offer faculty-led programs that can be custom-designed depending on the curriculum content, offering an impactful integration of course study and experiential learning. Our educational team helps university faculty connect content processes and authentic personal/collective reflection for results-oriented outcomes. Course time is often held in interesting indigenous cultural sites to enhance learning and growing from a deeper perspective. The Bali Institute for Global Renewal has offered global conferences, educational programs, cultural immersion/service learning experiences and global leadership training to more than 2000 people of all ages from over 40 countries. More than 200 NGOs, corporations, organizations, media outlets and private groups have been sponsors, supporters and promoters of these programs. Major global leaders, Nobel Prize awardees, social activists, award-winning authors and film makers, CEOs and heads of large non-profits have participated and helped facilitate well over 200 programs and workshops. Visiting dignitaries have included former Indonesian President Gus Dur, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize honorees Betty Williams and Jody Williams, Afghanistan Red Crescent President Fatima Galani, and the Bhutan Head of Home Affairs. More than 500 student leaders from around the world have also Universities Home Global Education Programs Media / Gallery About What are the Basics of Mindfulness Making time for reflection, meditation and/or prayer Observe the moment as it is Let judgements roll by Be kind to your wandering mind Setting intention The Impact of finding your purpose Reduces stress Improves concentration Encourages healthy lifestyle Increases self-awareness Increases happiness Increases acceptance Slows aging Benefits cardiovascular and immune health Emotional regulation Improves your sense of empathy for others Fights Anxiety Fights Memory loss What Gives/Brings Joy Practicing Patience Finding strength in gentleness Practicing self-control Not taking it too serious…because its all serious! Enjoy the moment Enjoying the moment means cultivating a healthy relationship with the experience, a relationship characterized by presence and acceptance. University of Oxford Study Facts November 2013 273 Individuals in Study 58% experienced a reduction in anxiety 57% reduction in depression 40% reduction in stress 26% reduction in fatigue 33% improved sleep quality Emotional Balance Emotional Balance is the balancing of your Values Personal Ethics Emotional Balance Reshaping our image of Aging Aging happens. It’s OK. Let yourself in on that secret so you can settle into it. This gives you a front-row view to an ever-changing circus of thoughts and sensations. Exercise Remember a moment in your life where mindfulness was used. A moment of solitude or a situation with someone else in which you offered or received the quality of mindful presence. What was happening? How did you feel? Why has this stayed in your memory? “When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you” -Lao Tzu Living is being aware, having a balanced acceptance of your present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. Thanks! Contact us: Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay www.aseb. com 510-644-8292