UMaine Hutchinson Center Announces Mindful Leadership Certificate
Belfast, ME – A two-day workshop focused on mindful leadership in professional and workplace settings will be offered this fall at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center at 80 Belmont Ave., Belfast.
At the Mindful Leadership workshop, to be held 8:30 a.m. –3:30 p.m. Oct. 13 and Oct. 27, attendees will practice mindfulness meditation, learn competencies of mindful leadership and discuss strategies for being calmer, more clear-minded and emotionally aware in the workplace.
Mindful Leadership will introduce participants to practical ways to bring mindfulness to daily work life. Based on the corporate mindfulness work of authors Rasmus Hougaard, “One Second Ahead; Enhance the Performance at Work with Mindfulness,” the workshop will teach tools and techniques for implementing mindfulness at work to enhance focus, clarity, relationships, and results. During each session, participants will have the opportunity to practice mindfulness meditation, and discuss guidelines to change how they think about people, themselves, and things in the workplace with a goal of being more calm, clear-minded, and emotionally aware.
Mary Doyle, M.A., R.N., will be the facilitator. She earned a graduate degree in organizational development from Emerson College, a bachelor’s degree in human nutrition from the University of Maine and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Southern Maine.
Doyle is qualified as a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher by the University of California, San Diego Center for Mindfulness. She has additional MBSR teacher training from Bangor University in the United Kingdom. Doyle owns of Mindfulness to Work, a private practice that provides training, coaching and leadership training based on the principals of mindfulness throughout New England.
The cost of the two-day workshop is $395 with limited scholarships available. A light breakfast, refreshments, materials, and lunch are included. A UMaine Certificate in Mindful Leadership is awarded upon completion. Contact hours and CEU’s are available.
For more information, or to request an accommodation, contact Diana McSorley, 207.338.8093, diana.mcsorley@maine.edu. To register online visit hutchinsoncenter.umaine.edu/professional-development/
About the University of Maine:
The University of Maine, founded in Orono in 1865, is the state’s only public research university. It celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2015. UMaine is among the most comprehensive higher education institutions in the Northeast and attracts students from Maine and 45 other states, and 65 countries. It currently enrolls 10,922 total undergraduate and graduate students who can directly participate in groundbreaking research working with world-class scholars. The University of Maine offers doctoral degrees in 35 fields, representing the humanities, sciences, engineering and education; master’s degrees in nearly 70 disciplines; 90 undergraduate majors and academic programs; and one of the oldest and most prestigious honors programs in the U.S. The university promotes environmental stewardship, with substantial efforts campus-wide aimed at conserving energy, recycling and adhering to green building standards in new construction. For more information about UMaine, visit umaine.edu.