Mindfulness at work
Subtitle: how to avoid stress, achieve more and enjoy life!
By: Dr Stephen McKenzie
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Wollombi, NSW, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781775590750; 9781775590767; 9781775590774; 9781775590781; 9781921966194
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Industrial & Organizational Psychology; Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy; PSYCHOLOGY; Job stress; Work; Quality of work life; Psychological aspects; Prevention
Other titles: At work
Description: Written by an expert with years of both clinical and personal experience, 'Mindfulness at Work' includes examples of mindfulness in action in the workplace, while also looking at how the principles of mindfulness can be applied to specific professions, from sales and marketing to teaching, from law to medicine, from the trades to the creative arts.
Notes: Published in New Zealand.

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Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Cover; About the author; Title page; Copyright; Contents; 1: What mindfulness is and isn't; What is mindfulness?; What isn't mindfulness?; Origins of mindfulness; The benefits of mindfulness; 2: How mindfulness can work at work; Know thy need!; Seven general mindfulness working principles; Seven specific mindfulness working principles; 3: Mindful decision-making at work; Mindless decision-making models; Mindful decision-making models; What motivates our decisions?; Is it better to make a bad decision now or a good decision later?; Thinking and decision-making; Decision-making and listening.; title: Decision-making and ethicsSome examples of mindful working decisions; Some techniques for mindful decision-making at work; 4: Mindful leadership at work; Mindless leadership models; Mindful leadership models; Mindful leadership ingredients; A parable of mindful leadership; A technique for developing mindful leadership at work; 5: Mindful relationships at work; Mindless working relationship models; Mindful working relationship models; Working together; How mindfulness can help us to work together; Some working relationship examples; Some techniques for developing mindful working relationships.; title: 6: Mindful creativity at workWhat is creativity and can we create it?; How creativity can work at work; Mindfulness and creativity; title: how and why; Working creatively with other people; Some mindfully creative working examples; Techniques for mindfully expanding our working creativity; 7: Mindful enjoyment at work; A working enjoyment experiment; The gratitude attitude; Workplace tyrannies; Mindfulness and enjoyment; Mindfulness, enjoyment and working effectively; Humour at work; Some personal examples of mindful enjoyment at work; Some techniques for improving our workplace enjoyment.; title: 8: Some working examples of mindfulnessHospitality; Sales; Teaching; The trades; The creative and performing arts (and sciences); The legal industry; The healing industry; 9: Mindfulness and our life work; What really works for us?; Working our way to enlightenment; What does an enlightened workplace look like?; Acknowledgements; References; Index; An extract from Mindfulness for Life.