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New article on mindfulness and waking up

  • 1.  New article on mindfulness and waking up

    Posted 09-26-2016 14:22

    Just published a new article in the Journal of Management inquiry that may interest you--an action research study about moments of waking up at work: bringing mindfulness into everyday life. It's based on a project that I began as a member of MSR wanting to generate more research for our IG, rather than just convening workshops-research that would also foster practice and relationships.  It has done all of the above and I am so happy to see it published in this journal, so you can use it with your students too, and so others outside of our network can access our approach.

    Goldman Schuyler, K., Skjei, S., Sanzgiri, J., & Koskela, V. (Prepublished September 20, 2016). "Moments of waking up": A doorway to mindfulness and presence. Journal of Management Inquiry. DOI:10.1177/1056492616665171  http://jmi.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/09/19/1056492616665171.abstract 

    Abstract
          The context for this article and the research project that it describes is the potential importance of being awake and present for leaders. This 2-year collaborative action research project was designed to explore whether simply intending to be present could make a difference in participants' quality of experience at work and also to find out whether this would impact people with whom they worked. The study included a phenomenological analysis of contemporaneous notes taken several times a week for 4 weeks by two groups of 12-15 people from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. The study also explored the possibility that this approach to mindfulness might be useful for leadership development and education on a broad scale. The results suggest that sustaining ongoing awareness practices supports leaders in attaining the steadiness and flexibility needed for addressing the adaptive problems of our world.

    Keywords: mindfulness, presence, action research, leadership development, awareness, first-person reflection

    Please write to me if you cannot download it through your institution's library, and I'll send you a copy for your personal use. We are not permitted to post it to websites!


    Kathryn



    Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Ph.D. 
    Professor
    Alliant International University
    California School of Professional Psychology
    Organizational Psychology / Organization Development 
    One Beach Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94133
    Phone 415/955-2143