Today, in Day 4 we invite you to cultivate a smile, not just on your face, but in your heart and mind. Join Lele as he guides you through a gentle and playful practice that will help you release tension and cultivate joy. In this episode, we'll explore: * A guided meditation practice that focuses on the smile, helping you to develop greater awareness and presence * Techniques for cultivating a smile, including the use of the breath, the face, and the body * Tips for integrating the practice of s...
Oct 03, 2024•8 min
Today, we invite you to embark on a journey of focused attention with Nieta, where you'll learn to cultivate a deeper connection with your breath and quiet the mind. In todays' practice: * A guided meditation practice that focuses on the breath, helping you to develop greater awareness and presence * Techniques for cultivating focused attention, including the use of anchor points and sensory exploration * Tips for integrating focused attention into your daily life, to improve concentration and r...
Oct 02, 2024•12 min
Welcome to Day 2 of our 30-day mindfulness challenge! Today, we invite you to embark on a beautiful and transformative journey with Patrick, as he guides you through the "Lake of Loving Kindness Meditation". In this episode, Patrick will lead you through a gentle and imaginative practice that will help you cultivate a deeper sense of loving kindness, compassion, and understanding towards yourself and others. You'll be invited to create a peaceful lake of love, where you can connect with those yo...
Oct 01, 2024•17 min
**The 30 Days Mindfulness Challenge - Day 1** Welcome to Day 1 of our 30-day mindfulness challenge! Today, Lele will guide us through our first practice of the journey. **Beginner's Mind: Cultivating a Fresh Perspective** In this episode, Lele invites you to embody the spirit of the "beginner's mind," a fundamental concept in mindfulness. This attitude allows us to approach each moment with curiosity, openness, and a willingness to learn. Join Lele as he leads you through a gentle and accessible...
Sep 30, 2024•22 min
Today Nieta, Lele and Pat are sharing the latest news and introducing the mindfulness Challenge that will start on September 30th and for 30 days will share one practice a day with the community. And enjoy the practice at the end shared by Nieta.
Sep 13, 2024•16 min
Today Pat, Nieta and Lele are just sharing some news from the communities and Pat is leading a practice for everyone called the 3 steps breathing space. It's short and powerful enjoy it a fully!
May 20, 2024•12 min
Today we go back to basic in a new style for our podcast with guest, comment, practices and answers to the most basic and wanted questions about mindfulness. Nieta, Pat and Lele today interview Andy Lee asking him the following questions: 1. How do you define mindfulness, what it is and what it isn’t? 2. Aren’t we already aware? What’s the point with mindfulness? 3. How mindfulness makes us more aware, according to what process? 4. How different are you now that are practicing mindfulness for a ...
Apr 05, 2024•55 min
This is the last episode of 2023 where Lele and Pat wish all the best to the mindfulness communities and focus on gratitude for the year ending and all the beautiful things that happened to us. The podcast ends with a co-lead breathing practice. Thanks for listening
Dec 28, 2023•32 min
Today we talk to Zarin Suchi, IBMer, student of psychology and member of the Mindfulness@IBM community. With Zarin we talk about mindfulness and its connection with the study of psychology. We talk about stress, stress resistance, about the good and bad moments of life and about acceptance and what acceptance has to do with mindfulness. Thanks for listening.
Nov 21, 2023•29 min
Today we talk to Sean Harvey recurring guest of our podcast and recent author of the book Warrior Compassion written to help men discover the truth of who they are, learn to love the truth of who they are, unearth their inherent gifts, and realize the ways they are meant to contribute in the world. In the podcast we talk about what it means to be a man in our time and why compassion is an important factor to open man to live better with themselves and the world. We talk about the role of mindful...
Nov 02, 2023•26 min
Today we bring another benefit of the mindfulness practice, peace of mind. So practicing mindfulness leads to getting more chances to pacify your mind. And we talk about it with Ron Francis, IBMer and host of the podcast PeaceLoveMoto (https://www.peacelovemoto.com) With Ron we touch his story into mindfulness and motorbiking, we talk about nature, we talk about our mind and how with the mindfulness practice it can be pacified. Ron is also leading us into a beautiful practice at the end. Thanks ...
Sep 04, 2023•32 min
Today we talk to Fie Jeppesen (Global Culture Lead for Commercial Solution Areas at Microsoft) about mindfulness and in particular another of the benefits of mindfulness that is the ability to regulate stress to respond to stress wisely. We also talk about Fie's experience with mindfulness, about self compassion and we end with a lovely practice. Thanks for listening. More about Fie https://www.linkedin.com/in/fie-jeppesen-6948982/
Aug 07, 2023•38 min
Today we talk to Alicja Zalewska-Choma, Senior Lead, Corporate Social Responsibility @Kyndryl that is bringing her knowledge to talk about sustainability and how to deal with the anxiety connected with the climate crisis we are experiencing these days. Mindfulness is in fact a practice that helps to deal better with anxiety and that's what we share in the podcast along with the RAIN practice. Enjoy. This is the first episode of a long series dedicated to the benefits of mindfulness so we can all...
Jun 02, 2023•31 min
In this podcast episode, we talk to Akshata Nagesh (Program Lead, Global Delivery Transformation at Kyndryl) With Aks we discuss the benefits of practicing mindfulness in managing emotions to experience exuberant enjoyment of life. She shares her personal experiences of being short-tempered in the past and how mindfulness helped her become aware of her emotions and gradually learn to control them. She also emphasizes the importance of being kind to oneself and not beating oneself up for past mis...
May 22, 2023•32 min
Today we talk to Estela Quesada Zuheros, IBMer and author of the book "The Mindful Response: Lessons, stories and practices toward responsible leadership through mindfulness". In the podcast we talk about the book, about what's mindfulness for Estela and how she discovered it and what took her to deciding to start writing. A beautiful journey thanks for listening. You can find below the links about the book: Canada https://amzn.to/3JrQnWF UK https://amzn.to/3lrvgMc US https://amzn.to/3yNB065
Apr 13, 2023•35 min
Today we talk to Nat Lyckowski (Global Neurodiversity Advancement Leader@IBM) about Neurodiversity, about Neuroinclusion, about the April that is the Neurodiversity Advancement Month. There is a lot that the mindfulness practice can do for Neurodiversity and that's what we talk about today, about awareness, about acceptant and judgment. We talk about the proper language to use and how to approach Neurodiversity so we can all feel good and cooperate together. Thanks for listening.
Apr 05, 2023•32 min
Today we talk to Raymond, a program lead for projects and engagements in the Kyndryl Global Sustainability Team. Raymond Du Toit shares that he sees mindfulness as taking a step back, resetting purpose, and appreciating nature and the natural resources we rely on and take for granted. He believes that mindfulness can help recreate the connection that is missing with nature, like waking up early and just listening to birds singing, and hugging trees are some of the ways he does this. Raymond thin...
Mar 28, 2023•28 min
Today we talk to Sri Muralidharan, Mindfulness@IBM Community member and program manager@IBM. We talk about mindfulness and it's role into relationships, with friends, with family and kids and customers by helping who's practicing to have a more open mindset to understand that each one has something to bring on the table. Because in that moment when the customer is yelling our "monkey mind" needs to see our emotions and let the frustration go and only once it's gone we are ready to let go. And we...
Mar 07, 2023•45 min
Today we talk to Daniel Toohey, Data Scientist@IBM and proud member of the Mindfulness@IBM community that takes us through his experience into mindfulness starting with learning and experimenting a lot with Zen and Tibetan practices, going on retreats and then comparing that to the corporate world and finding the Mindfulness@IBM community. A nice rich story that we hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening. *editors note: Upon review, Daniel realized he misspoke when mentioning the death of the belov...
Feb 23, 2023•35 min
Today we talk to Nieta De Young, IBMer and member of the Mindfulness@IBM community. With Nieta we cover her experience with mindfulness that started in Japan with the Zen tradition. We talk about Zen, about how it translates in our daily life, what are the ultimate benefits of it in the corporate world and how to practice zazen (the sitting meditation practice). Enjoy and thanks for listening.
Jan 26, 2023•33 min
Today we talk to Kinga Szekessy Parrott, the designer of the "Connecting the body and mind" journey of the Welcome to Now Mindfulness@IBM Summit of 2022, this is the last of the journey we present in our podcast and the last episode of the year. In the episode also Pat, Lele and Fede chatting and discussing about how to approach mindfully our beginnings and endings, wish you enjoy. Thanks everyone for listening and for all you were doing for the mindfulness community of our Planet our gratitude ...
Dec 27, 2022•21 min
Today we talk to Kathleen Martin organizer of the "Thrive on the front line" journey for the Welcome to Now 2022 Mindfulness@IBM summit that is describing the whole journey to us and in particular, why is mindfulness so powerful for sellers? We close with a lovely practice offered by Fede Andino. Thanks for listening
Dec 19, 2022•23 min
today we talk to Ahmad Madani part of the Mindfulness@IBM community and designer of the “Navigate stress and face difficulties” journey in the Welcome to Now 2022 Summit. In the episode Ahmad describes the session that were part of the journey, why it’s worth to listen to them and what are the highlights of each. At the end we also talk about journaling and giving some advice on why journaling is a wonderful way to practice mindfulness. Thanks for listening
Dec 08, 2022•23 min
Today we speak to Abby Cross about the Welcome to Now journey "Sharpen your "beginner's mind"" that she moderated and crafted for IBMers during the 2022 Welcome to Now Summit. It's to guide to a better usage of the post event replays. And also with Pat we have an enriching conversation about what's a beginners mind and why it's so powerful to see our reality this way. Enjoy!
Nov 21, 2022•30 min
Today we talk about one of the journey in the Mindfulness@IBM Summit 2022 "Welcome to Now" and in particular about the Connecting deeply with others journey and the sessions that were part of it for all IBMers to get informed about what replay is worth watching. Thanks for listening.
Oct 27, 2022•30 min
Today we talk to Federico Andino, IBMer and long time practitioner and mindfulness teacher. With Federico we talk about the origins of mindfulness and what it represents today. He also explains why mindfulness is not a religion and instead it's a secular practice for everyone.
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Today we invited Lenka Uherova (psychologist, growth facilitator, trainer, coach. Lenka is making us reflect on our human evolution and how the brain evolved to face the current technological challenges, such an information overload and nowadays complexity. Are our brain able to cope with that? Can we improve them with mindfulness? How? A fascinating conversation with someone with a deep knowledge on the human brain. We will also learn many useful tips of easy practices from our guest you can st...
Oct 04, 2022•31 min
Today we talk to Kinga Szekessy Parrot, Kathleen Martin and Drishti Vidyarthi about the new Mindfulness@IBM Summit 2022 with title "Welcome to Now". Kinga, Kathy and Drishti are in the organising team of the Welcome to Now event and in the podcast will tell more about it, what's in the event, what are the news this year and why you should take part in it if you are in IBM. Thanks for listening.
Aug 22, 2022•21 min
Today in our podcast we talk to Mara Bloom (Executive Director, Massachusetts General Cancer Center) that recently came as guest in the Open Leadership Series session organized by the Mindfulness@IBM Community The podcast is also moderated by Daniel J Gawrys xIBMer and member of the community and good friend of Mara. We discuss about mindfulness, space and time. Why do we make time and space for ourselves? How to take more time? Do we judge ourselves and mind the judments from others? Are we pat...
Aug 01, 2022•59 min
This week's episode we have Vijay Somannavar a seasoned Program Manager who worked at IBM and now works at Kyndryl. Vijay shares with us his journey into mindfulness and the power of his first retreat. How it has changed himself and 25 people around him and what is next for him with mindfulness before leading us in a being with the breath meditation. Thanks for listening
Jul 14, 2022•33 min
