Meet Chuck Schad. A meditation teacher for Mindful.org and coach who switched from a long career in IT to helping people look inside in order to experience directly who they are and how they interact with the world.  Meditation has made a big change in Chuck's life. You'll hear how he came to a profound insight that he needed to connect deeper within in order to help him overcome his lifelong problems with substances and anxiety. The result has been so great that he now spends his time helping others. He has a rich and colorful past, quick wit, tons of experience, and a lot of insight and ..read more

In this episode, you'll hear why I've missed a few weeks co-producing The Future is Mindful conference. But more importantly, there is an exceptionally important message in this about why the world needs more of who you truly are in it, and a bit about how to express that. Seriously, the message here is about how to make your life, and the life of those around you better. And I'm not messing around here as I know a lot of you have a hard time, a really hard time. I talk about how you could help your moment-to-moment experience be not as bad by letting yourself experience whatever goodness ther ..read more

There is a lot happening these days in the world of "organizational mindfulness." In this episode, you'll hear the story of how I came to be a co-founder of a virtual conference called The Future is Mindful, happening March 29th and 30th 2022. This is an incredibly important conversation on how businesses are in response to the "the great resignation",  businesses are urgently trying to shapeshift to become more human-centered organizations. I know a lot of people are skeptical, but this is happening folk. Listen in to hear about. Sign up for free registration.  --- Send in a voice m ..read more

Mark Leonard is one of a kind. One of the founders of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, he has an incredible knowledge of the history and evolution of mindfulness training and has a few things to say about it! He created a unique training called Mindfulness-Based Organisational Education incorporating "short mindfulness" which has been studied and found to be effective in reducing stress and increasing self-reports on scales of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. He's now on a mission to help people become more conscious, cause when you do, you'll be an advocate for helping the world become a ..read more

Most people have not spent much time The Language of Mindfulness Podcast  Episode 36 - The Power of Connected Conversationthinking about what they are connected to during a conversation. Are you worried about what to say next? Thinking about how you want to be acknowledged or accepted as a friend? Afraid of disappointing them? If so, then what you are connected to will show up in your conversation and you will miss opportunities to connect authentically, which is your best chance of having things go well. In this episode, I give some examples, tips, and scenarios that can really be helpfu ..read more

"Listening has consequences." When I read that phrase in a speech delivered by the famous psychologist Carl Rogers on Interpersonal Communications, I knew I had to talk about this. There is a lot of goodness in that speech and in this episode, you'll hear a few of the gems including "can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world" and "beyond the immediate message of the person, no matter what that might be, there is the universal." This is master class stuff. I hope you enjoy it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/languageofmind ..read more

Billy Lahr, one of the hosts of the popular Mindful Midlife Crises podcasts, joins me in this funny and light-hearted yet serious episode where we discuss such topics as his recent midlife crises world tour involving paddleboarding, geomancy, and "pizza dough as a metaphor for living outside your comfort zone". (PS I am totally stealing that pizza dough metaphor Billy ;) He has some great insights ranging from "why would I end my vacation and go back to Minneapolis in winter? What was I thinking?" to "you need people in your life that add bumps." and "sometimes you just gotta say 'F it'". Word ..read more

Modern life creates a lot of anxiety and stress. Mindfulness helps us re-connect to the beauty that's right in front of you. Your problems don't disappear, they just get smaller because you get bigger. You become aware that it's not productive or healthy to be focused 24/7 on what happened yesterday, last year, or earlier in your life - or forward-facing into what calamities may await you the next hour, day, or decade. Sure, you need to plan effectively and respond objectively, but that's no excuse for being in a self-created hurricane every day, all day, and wondering why you're so stressed o ..read more

When I first met Keith, it was like I had found a kindred spirit. He's been practicing mindfulness for a long while and came about his wisdom through the heat of adversity, the way most real wisdom is forged. Keith has put his commitment and focus into helping business professionals be better people, and thereby, better at business. And because what he's learned is very practical and applicable to our lives, he wrote the book, The Mindfulness Experience, providing a roadmap to becoming more mindful in a way that is effective, practical, and accessible. That is no small task. In this episode, y ..read more

This episode is my heartfelt effort to ring a particular bell. The one that rings when something is important and urgent and needs your attention. A call to action. This week, it has come into high-resolution focus for me that mindful communications has the capacity to recast your life into a much more satisfying, connected, engaged, resilient, and calmer moment-to-moment life. And more. To live a life connected to the beauty and presence between us and the vast common ground of human experience. It has the power to build bridges made of the fabric of presence where none other can be built. Wh ..read more