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Have you noticed?
NOW is the Moment for Mindfulness!
Join us for a thought-provoking mindfulness adventure exploring how organizations can leverage mindfulness to improve employee wellbeing, drive strategic initiatives, and enhance performance. This program will be experiential, didactic, and interactive.
You will enjoy the benefits of mindful meditation, gain an understanding of mindfulness based on its eastern roots and western adaptations, and participate in an interactive discussion. With an appreciation for mindfulness on both an individual and collective level, a continuum of mindfulness interventions is presented to stimulate the OD professional’s understanding of mindfulness as an OD strategy. Breakout groups will discuss possible organizational entry points for mindfulness including employee wellbeing, leadership development, DEI, team building, and talent management,
Your mindful tour guides are Beth Guyton, Myra Britton, & Dorsey Standish. {BIOs below}
Group discussion facilitators are Ben Dilla, Chris Price, Nila Sinha, and Michele Studer.
Schedule for Thursday Evening:
– 6:45 Virtual setup and Networking
– 7:00 Announcements / Intros / Program <–Note earlier start!
– 8:45 Closing and evaluation
Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.
Facilitator BIOs:
Beth Guyton is founder and president of Interactive Quality®, a consulting firm dedicated to helping healthcare organizations optimize the people piece of organizational performance. Her expertise includes leadership coaching and development, resiliency, fostering accountability, enhancing engagement and retention, service excellence, change management, design and implementation of customized training programs, ethical leadership, and communication strategies.
She is a Certified Executive Coach, Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, Certified Mindfulness Instructor, Six Sigma Green Belt, Quality Texas Examiner, and trained mediator. Beth holds a Bachelor of Arts from LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication and is a Masters of Industrial and Organizational Psychology student at George Mason University. https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-guyton-cphq-1a066423/
Myra Britton is a retired, accomplished IT leader who sought to make a difference in corporate technology by advocating for women engineers and alike to advance in their field. As an accomplished technology leader and mentor, she specialized in coaching and empowerment of employees, building cohesive-confident-highly productive teams, which contributed to exciting tech developments. Myra earned a Master’s in Psychology, and was the first in her family — First girl, first to go to college, the first black female in senior management at a Dallas technology firm, and first to travel to the Middle East.
Today, she recognizes that less is more and that living a life of “now” and “enough” is so much more peaceful. Myra loves volunteering, spending time with family and friends, hanging out with her two terrier dogs, taking long walks, boxing, landscaping, reading, and practicing mindfulness meditation. https://www.linkedin.com/in/myrabritton/
Dorsey Standish is an exceptional teacher, scientist, and communicator. In her role as Chief Mindfulness Officer at Mastermind Meditate, Dorsey leverages her diverse background in research, engineering, and program management to develop and teach research-backed mindfulness meditation seminars. Her teachings combine neuroscience research with her certification in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program and her experience on multiple silent meditation retreats. She offers science-based, research-backed mindfulness seminars on a wide variety of topics including resilience, the science of compassion, and peak potential.
A lifelong learner, Dorsey Standish has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and is enrolled in the UT Dallas Applied Cognition and Neuroscience Master’s Program. As a research coordinator at the UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth, she studies the benefits of cognitive training in veterans with traumatic brain injuries. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorseystandish/