Integrating Awareness Into Workplace Culture
Once you start meditation and awareness practices, how do you ensure change will integrate into your workplace and transform the culture?
First and foremost, all of the leaders need to be on board and agree upon simple protocol change. What principles and practices do you commit to as a team, and how do you gently keep yourselves accountable?
Who on your team will take notes and create simple guidelines for the team to follow and check in with over time? It’s important to articulate what you commit to and why.
Example:
Our leadership team commits to the following for 3 months:
1 meditation per day
Dropping social media at work
Building simple presence and awareness, through breath, relaxation, mantra and a smile
Taking a break from speaking when angry
1 monthly check in meetings
The next tutorial walks you through basic practices to help build simple slow presence—even in a busy work environment. Write down your thoughts as you listen, so you start to assimilate the lesson as your own.
Another area to benefit from mutual understanding and agreement is protocol around problem solving. If we feel enthusiastic and confident while strategizing, our perception and availability to solution broadens. If we feel irritated, sad or insecure our perception shrinks.
Therefore it serves the team and workplace culture to create agreements around presence, emotions and problem solving. This can be as simple as a quick internal check in to see if you’re feeling good or bad, thus determining your next move.
Take notes on this one as well, that’ll help the information integrate:)
What core values are you building together within your work environment? The values need to be strong enough to emanate from each of you and to be embodied within all of the systems —from training, to strategy, to what you provide your customers.
These values can be simplified into attributes and integrated through “I Am” presence. It’s important to agree upon them as a base for team congruency.
Example attributes (named as a simple adjective):
I Am, We Are, Our place is…
Joy
Ease
Unique
Love
Clear
Care
Organized
Beautiful
Quality
Make sure whoever is taking notes for the team writes these down once agreed upon! :)
