Mbwaretraining
For NGOs, Disaster-Relief and Development Agencies
Preventing Burn-Out, Compassion-Fatigue, Stress-Leave, PTSD
Enhancing Mental Resilience and Performance under Stress
Daily stressors of service in foreign, challenging environments and the need to deal with traumatic events, ....
.... produces long-term stress-injury and PTSD
and effects:
.... health, wellbeing and moral
.... performance, decision-making, communication ....despite so many valuable efforts to counter this costly trend.
.... resulting in staff turn-over, sick-leave, health-care expenses.
Lennart Krogoll (MBWARE) on mindfulness and stress
MBWARE’s program in brief:
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Stress release and management exercises, that reduce or prevent compassion-fatigue, burn-out, stress-leave, stress-injury and PTSD
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Proactively improve mental-emotional wellbeing, resilience and performance under stress
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Address the significant pre-verbal, pre-cognitive component of resilience, performance under stress, nervous-system and emotion regulation, and stress release
Contact Us Now to find out more, - or to set up an introductory presentation for you!
Evidence-based, mindfulness-based training modules
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Originally designed by military and security officers
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Based on 30 years experience in training mindfulness techniques in various professional contexts,
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Adapted for civilian service teams, and to honor your professional culture and operational reality
The US Naval Research Centre together with the US Marine Corps conducted several research studies on these mindfulness exercises. Multiple neuroscience studies further support their effectiveness.
Elite and professional sports teams have also embraced these same techniques. Famously Phil Jackson used mindfulness techniques to develop the above mentioned critical skills, and coached the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers to a total of 10 NBA championships. “I approached it with mindfulness, … as much as we pump iron and build physical strength, we need to build our mental strength”.
MBWARE Training Objectives:
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Enhance mental, psychological resilience, leading to improved health, wellness, moral and performance outcomes
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Enhance capacity to remain calm, present, responsive and empathetic under pressure
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Strengthen capacity for self-talk regulation, emotion regulation, goal setting, mental agility and attention control
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Empower stress management and self-regulation skills for ‘on the spot’ application, when encountering acute stressors
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Increase self awareness and personal zone of optimal performance
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Prevent compassion-fatigue, ‘burn-out’ and long term stress injury such as PTSD
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Support recovery from long term stress and trauma effects
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Provide practical understanding of the neuroscience of resilience, stress and stress management, and mindfulness
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Remove the stigma from stress impact and injury
Skills Taught:
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Effective skills and exercises to expand zone of optimal performance, communication and decision-making
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Practical grounding, calming, cooling skills for high-stress situations
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Attention, focusing and mindfulness skills
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Effective skills and practical exercises to turn stress into resilience
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Effective skills to suspend self-talk and redirect attention to present moment and task at hand
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Pre-verbal emotion management and regulation skills
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Physiological self-regulation skills to settle and de-conflict the autonomic nervous system during stress activation
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Breath regulation, body-scanning and other stress management skills and practices
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Cognitive reframing skills and positive attitudinal skills
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Effective skills to go beyond 'automatic-pilot' or habitual re-action, to situational awareness and intentional response
Email Us Here for more information or to schedule a demonstration session, tailored to your needs.
Watch video excerpts from an interview by ABC News' Dan Harris with Police Chief Sylvia Moir (Arizona, Tempe), about why mindfulness should be a key piece of resilience and communication training.
To view the entire interview go here.
(credit: Dan Harris and '10% Happier', ABC News)
Training Content:
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Mindfulness and mindfulness-in-action exercises
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Body-mind techniques
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Somatic movement exercises
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Nervous-system and self-regulation techniques
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Instruction on the techniques, how to apply them, and facilitated exercise sessions and discussions
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Honouring the experience, operational realities and culture of your team
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Relevant scientific information on performance-zone, stress, resilience and the training methodology
Training Delivery:
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Delivery format adapted to your needs and organizational realities: One to two hour weekly or by-weekly sessions or intensive workshops
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Additional, optional group or one-on-one follow-up check-ins, guided exercise facilitation, and coaching
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Integrated and aligned in support of your current training strategy and objectives
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Collaboratively-designed outcome-oriented evaluations
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Guided exercise instructions as audio files
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Potential for training certified ‘internal’/peer facilitators