Working with Mindfulness: Neuroscience at Work

by Mirabai Bush, Richard J. Davidson

Mirabai Bush, co-founder of The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and a key adviser to Google’s Search Inside Yourself curriculum, hosts a discussion with neuroscientist and author Dr. Richard Davison, Director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior and the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Davidson shares:

-Research on meditation as it relates to happiness, distraction, neuroplasticity and recovering from negative information.

-Key findings from his latest book The Emotional Life of Your Brain.

Most people today are asked to improve performance at work with fewer resources and tighter deadlines, all while dealing with equally stressed co-workers and clients. This combination leads to employee burnout and harms organizations. While people may not have control over stressors at work, mindfulness-based exercises are a scientifically proven, natural way to manage one’s responses to them. Dr. davidson's research shows both how and why this is possible in the brain.

12 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 23, 2013