1. SHIFT Lab
Real Mindfulness
10 Week Workshop & Mentor Program
Learning around:
 What is Real Mindfulness?
 Zen and the art of Flourishing and Flow
 Intuition
 Right thinking CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
 Visualisation and Journeying to remove blockages
 Breath & Meditation
Outcomes for Individuals:
 Being more present in the moment
 More open to receiving & giving
 More effective in daily decision making
 Being able to experience FLOW states on a daily basis
 Allowing toxic stress events or changes to wash away…just letting go
 Understanding the emotions need to be felt, like sorrow, fear, anger,
but not allowing them to control you.
 Experiencing more joy & happiness on a daily basis
 Being more effective, engaged and productive in work and life
 Creating better Work outcomes
 Building resilience, helping avoid ‘burnouts’
 Developing clarity on what’s important on a daily basis

2. Program Structure
Week 1 Workshop 1 Introduction Session
 At the introduction session we can introduce some assessments for
the participants to check their level of current Mindfulness, which
provides each participant certain areas of life, which if focused on in
their work, as well as outside, will improve their level of flourishing.
 These results can be used by mentor and participant as a guide over
the course of 10 weeks,
 Initial one on one meeting to gauge participants’ current state and
discover what they hope to gain from the program.
 A workshop will then be held to introduce the topics & expectations
outlined above.
Week 2-9 8 Weekly Mentoring Sessions over phone, video or f2f.
 Individual One to One mentoring tailored to each participant.
Week 10 Workshop 2
 A final workshop providing the skills necessary for participants to be
able to monitor their own progress after the programs completion.
 One last mentor session to check for understanding, to make sure
that participants have gained what they had hoped to gain from the
program and to receive feedback.

3. Program Content
What is Real Mindfulness?
 A proper (even basic) understanding of where the concept of
Mindfulness has come from.
 Sometimes people feel that nothing is happening. This is because
they have not been taught about why Mindfulness should be
practiced.
 There is no contradiction between having goals and Mindfulness, it is
just that knowing that what really helps one to become content, to
flourish is inside ourselves.
 Participants will be able to start from a place of knowing that
everything they want, they already have: so fulfilling their dreams
becomes a bonus (not a stressful thing to crave).
Zen and the Art of Flow and Flourishing.
 Here we can introduce participants to two happy side effects of
Mindfulness: Flow and Flourishing.
 Flow is a term from Positive Psychology that describes the state that
one enters when one is working to the limits of one’s capabilities,
doing something that one loves (see Mihály Csíkszentmihályi).
 To bring more Flow into participant’s lives, we can use the answers
to the Flourishing Assessment mentioned above to help them to bring
the desired qualities, as much as possible, into their work and lives.
For instance, someone who has a love of Beauty as one of their
qualities could be mindful of every opportunity to make their work
more aesthetically pleasing. Someone with a love of learning might
start to look for new ways to do simple tasks at their work, by
researching or taking courses.
Intuition.
 Another happy side effect of Mindfulness is becoming more intuitive
(Enlightened people were constantly having magical acts ascribed to
them, most of which can be put down to being more Intuitive and “in
the flow”).
 Areas at work and home in which Intuition can help can be explored
through a short introduction to how to contact that part of ourselves,
which is usually (unless one is Mindful) too quiet to be heard.

4. Right thinking (CBT).
 The skills taught in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy have been shown
to help with depression and anxiety, especially where stress is a
major component across our work and daily life.
 These skills help to alleviate what are known as “Cognitive
Distortions” such as:
- Having a ‘mental filter’ (only seeing negative things)
- Disqualifying the positive
- All or Nothing thinking
- Overgeneralisation
- Jumping to conclusions
- Magnifying or Minimising (Catastrophising)
- Personalisation
- Shoulds and Oughts
- Emotional Reasoning
- Labelling
 Learning the skills to avoid these types of thinking can help to make
Mindfulness easier and provide more focus for flow and flourishing.
Visualisation & Journeying.
 For any participants who feel that they have something in the way of
their flow: that keeps them from being able to be mindful and
intuitive, guided visualisation & meditation can be a powerful tool.
 Participants can be guided to set up a “Sanctuary” inside themselves
in which they will feel the protection, safety and quiet necessary to
locate any blockages and remove them in a safe manner.
 This form of psychology, known as trans-personal psychology can be a
very quick way to deal with issues that mainstream psychology may
take weeks or months to deal with (if at all).
Breath & Meditation
 Developing daily habits around breath and just ‘being’
 Learning mediation as a daily tool around Mindfulness.
 Connecting to the ‘inner most you’
 Experiencing more love, connectedness, compassion, empathy & joy
in your daily life.
 Building resilience around stress