Human Business Brochure 2015

HUMANBUSINESS

2 THE WAY OF THE CHIMP | A NEW WAY TO THINK AND WORK

DELIVERING MINDFUL

SOLUTIONS FOR

SUCCESS AND

STRESS REDUCTION

AT WORK


The Way of the Chimp A new way to think and work

The Way of the Chimp is a unique programme that brings the benefits of Mindfulness to the workplace. Using authentic mindfulness practices backed by scientific research, we focus on five essential work place qualities, cultivating leadership skills, strategic thinking, productivity, self-management and interpersonal skills.

Nearly three decades of scientific research at medical centers all over the world proves that training in mindfulness can positively and profoundly affect participants' ability to reduce medical symptoms and psychological distress. Human-Business is leading a new revolution in changing the way that we experience and enjoy life at work.

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OVERVIEW

The Way of the Chimp offers highly interactive, quick to learn, fun and enjoyable techniques that have been shown to improve health, happiness and productivity, reducing staff turnover and sick-days, and increasing morale and productivity.

Once learnt, the self-applied techniques of The Way of the Chimp ensure life-long mindfulness skills, providing longevity and therefore an excellent return on investment.

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The Way of the Chimp helps organisations address some of their most difficult challenges:

• Building resilience in times of rapid change

• Helping individuals solve not just technical but adaptive problems, which have no clear answers

• Supporting people to thrive in a fast-paced, connected world without boundaries

• Creating an inspired workplace that supports true human development


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Who Should Attend

Everyone. Every organisation needs emotionally intelligent and mindful employees at all levels. Organisations with a mindful and self-aware culture enjoy an inspiring, high- performance workplace and a happier, healthier and balanced workforce.

What Participants Will Learn

Mind/body training practices that focus on enhancing workplace skills including:

• Increased attention span and focus

• Enhanced concentration and creativity

• Techniques for leading with compassion and influencing with insight

An introduction into authentic mindfulness techniques that:

• Improve self-awareness and emotional process

• Clarify vision and build resilience • Enhance self-confidence,

optimism and empathy

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Key themes relating to business

• Enhance listening and communication skills

• Build better work relationships • Email with intention • Manage negative emotions • Develop self and others • Flow with change • Workplace kindness • Walking and driving with clarity

Mindfulness Matters Survey

Our survey recognises that Mindfulness and Wellbeing are linked by several factors, the organisational culture and what employees bring to work as well as how well they are able to carry out their jobs and their experiences at work. It is though an employee-direct understanding of these relationships that organisations can identify the changes that will create a happier, healthier and more productive workplace


How to Integrate

Mindfulness into your

Organisation

The Human Business Tree illustrates the 5 key

elements that coexist in order for successful

integration of Mindfulness into your organisation:

Seed - the One Day Integration Workshop sows the

seeds of Mindfulness into the organisation

Water - continuous practice of Mindfulness waters the

seed and enhances the organisation's health

Roots - Mindfulness takes root as key personnel

complete the full eight-week programme

Trunk - the integration of Mindfulness throughout the

organisation's core and culture

Leaves - employees practicing Mindfulness daily

nourish the organisation's productivity and employees

feel nurtured


THE WAY OF THE CHIMP ONE-DAY

INTEGRATION WORKSHOP

Our Integration Workshop is a highly

effective way to introduce Mindfulness

into your organisation and is suitable for

all employees. We address the stress and

pressures that work and life have on our

minds and bodies, our work performance

and our personal lives. We'll share a

selection of stress reduction methods from

The Way of the Chimp Eight-Week

Programme, educate employees about the

important role they play in their own

health and wellbeing, and assist employees

in creating their own daily mindfulness

practice, supported by The Way of the

Chimp App.

THE WAY OF THE CHIMP EIGHT-

WEEK MINDFULNESS PROGRAMME

The Eight Week programme establishes

the roots of Mindfulness within an

organisation. It is an informative and

deeply engaging learning experience

suitable for all employees but particularly

aimed at key personnel where it is not

practical for the entire organisation to take

part. This highly interactive course is

delivered in-house over 8 weekly / 2 - 3

hour sessions, (time frames can be adapted

however we recommend this researched

formula for optimum results). Please see

overleaf for full details.

MINDFUL TOOLS

The key to Mindfulness is being reminded

to be in the present. Awareness is increased

by regular Chimp-outs delivered by our

interactive App and reinforced by

Mindfulness posters, desk cards, mouse

mats and door signs.

THE WAY OF THE CHIMP BESPOKE

PROGRAMMES AND TASTER SESSIONS

Please contact us should you require a

bespoke programme or would like to book

a Taster Session. Whether you are a small

private company or a multi-national, we can

help you become a Mindful, listening and

nurturing organisation.


The Way of the Chimp Web-based App

The Way of the Chimp Web based Mindfulness App brings high-

quality, integrated, organisation-wide support within the reach and

budget of every business. Whether used as a stand alone App or in

conjunction with The Way of the Chimp Programme, the App

reinforces and promotes mindfulness practice at work. and is an

essential part of the integration.

The App offers four main functions:

1. CONTENT - text, audio and video

delivery of The Way of the Chimp

programme

2. COMMUNICATIONS - daily ‘Chimp-outs’

remind, reinforce and action

Mindfulness practice

3. ENGAGEMENT - interactive ‘Chimp-

outs’ engage users at regular intervals

4. REPORTING - collation of survey data

monitors organisation Wellbeing,

delivering an overall ‘engagement’ and

‘progress’ score for individuals as well as

the organisation as a whole


The Eight-Week Mindfulness Programme at a glance

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Week One

This orientation session will introduce the practice of mindfulness. We will discover how this secular, scientific, evidence-based practice has become an accepted part of mainstream healthcare, and determine how it can positively affect the quality of our everyday life at work and at home. We will learn the theory and evidence of mind-body ‘medicine’ and how to apply it in our lives with a special emphasis on what it means to be fully engaged in the present moment using experiential exercises such as mindful breathing and body scanning.

Week Two

Perception is key in mindfulness—how we see things determines in a large part how we respond. This week’s session and practice will ask employees to examine their perceptions, assumptions, and the way they view the world. We will learn to use our ‘felt-sense’ to cultivate a greater degree of awareness of our reaction to stressful situations. Changing the way we perceive and respond to challenges will impact the short and long term effects of stress on our mind and body.

Week Three

In this session, we will practice several distinct yet interrelated mindfulness practices—mindful qigong, sitting mindfully, and walking and driving with clarity. We will discover that there is both pleasure and power in being present and directly attend to and investigate how our experiences create such reactions as pleasure or discomfort in the mind and body.

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Week Four

By practicing mindfulness, we cultivate curiosity and openness to the full range of our experience, and through this process our ability to pay attention becomes more flexible. This week our practice will focus on developing concentration and systematically expand our field of awareness. We’ll learn about the physiological and psychological basis of stress reactivity, and experience mindful strategies for responding in positive, proactive ways to stressful situations.

Week Five

Participants will be familiar with the foundations of The Way of the Chimp and able to focus on applying it more rapidly and effectively to specific work/life challenges and stressors. We will identify individual negative response patterns and learn how to overcome them through mindful awareness. We will gain practical experience of how to apply mindfulness at the critical moment when experiencing physical sensation or intense emotion with special attention to exploring the effect of reactivity in health and illness.

Week Six

Resilience or “stress hardiness” is our ability to return to equilibrium after stressful situations. This week, we will focus on transformational coping strategies to broaden inner resources and enhance resilience through mindful practice. We’ll also learn the fundamentals of interpersonal mindfulness— applying awareness and presence at times when communication becomes difficult or fraught with strong emotions. We’ll gain direct experience of a variety of styles for more effective and creative interpersonal communication.

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Week Seven

Mindfulness is most effective when it is a lifetime commitment. This week, we will build on the many ways that we can integrate mindfulness more fully in the workplace and personally into our lives. Whilst having a dedicated regular practice for mindfulness such as Qigong is important and beneficial, it is just as important to bring a broader sense of awareness and presence to every moment in life, and to use non-judgmental mindfulness in self-reflection and decision-making processes. We’ll learn how to maintain the discipline and flexibility of daily practice as circumstances change over the course of life.

Week Eight

In the final week of the programme, we will review everything we’ve learned over the course, with an emphasis on carrying the momentum we’ve built forward into the coming months and years. We’ll learn about resources available to pursue mindfulness in new directions as our life and practice evolve, as well as the support systems that Human Business offer to help continue to integrate, learn, and grow.


“Deniz enjoys a great reputation for providing excellent facilitation, mindfulness and Qigong classes. When I was introduced to his work several years ago my expectations were high and after experiencing classes regularly, have actually been surpassed. He is good-natured and has a light touch that facilitates an enjoyable learning environment coupled with a sharp eye for accuracy and integrity. This is a powerful combination and has led to a life-changing and business-enhancing integration of Qigong into my daily life. I recommend his work highly.”

Anne Francis Director of Carnival Consulting.

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What you get

The Way of the Chimp Eight-Week programme (max 2 sessions per day / 25 people per session):

• 2 sessions (duration 2 - 3 hours per session) per day to maximise attendance and give flexibility to organisations

• Full ‘Mindfulness Matters’ survey for the entire organisation

• Nominating of in-house The Way of the Chimp Representatives (selected on a voluntary basis) with direct email support

• Back of house The Way of the Chimp stationery and posters to act as Mindfulness reminders

• Free 8 week subscription to The Way of the Chimp Full App for participants

• Volume discounts available for subscription to The Way of the Chimp Lite App to facilitate full organisational integration

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The Way of the Chimp Eight-Week programme with bespoke 12-month support package includes (in addition to the standard programme):

• Quarterly ‘Chimp Clinics’ including: - Refresher clinics for participants to embed programme content - Management meetings to implement, enable and support - Discounted new staff induction sessions

• Continuous email support via The Way of the Chimp representatives

• An interim 9 month Full “Mindfulness Matters’ Survey to review employee wellbeing

• Discounted rate for Human-Business to conduct future courses

Why Human-Business? In 2010, Deniz Paradot founded Norwich Qigong at A Place To Be to bring a form of Meditation in Motion known as Qigong into peoples’ lives. Qigong the Original Authentic


Why Human-Business? In 2010, Deniz Paradot founded Norwich Qigong at A Place To Be to bring a form of Meditation in Motion known as Qigong into peoples’ lives. Qigong the Original Authentic Mindfulness Life Art is a basic human quality, a way of learning to pay attention to whatever is happening in your life that allows you a greater sense of connection to your life inwardly and outwardly. Qigong is also a practice, a systematic method aimed at cultivating clarity, insight, and understanding. In the context of your health, Qigong is a way to experientially learn to take better care of yourself by exploring and understanding the interplay of mind and body and mobilising inner resources for coping, growing, and healing.

Nearly three decades of scientific research at medical centers all over the world suggest that training in mindfulness, such as Qigong can positively and often profoundly affect participants' ability to reduce medical symptoms and psychological distress while learning to live life more fully.

Here at Human-Business we call our approach ‘The Way of the Chimp.’ Since its inception, it is estimated than more than 7000 people have studied, practiced and experienced the benefits taught by Deniz Paradot, with referrals from doctors, counsellors, physiotherapists and other health care professionals, and through self-referral. These participants have been strongly motivated to do something for themselves—something no one else can do for them —by learning to draw upon their inner resources and natural capacity for greater health as well as balance, ease, and peace of mind.

Human-Business inspires and empowers individuals to develop the capacity to transform themselves, their organisations and their communities.


IMPROVING YOUR STAFF WELLBEING CAN BE ONE OF THE BEST INVESTMENTS YOU'LL EVER MAKE

FACTS: • STRESS AFFECTS ONE IN FIVE OF THE WORKING POPULATION FROM THE NEWEST RECRUIT IN THE POST

ROOM TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. • IT IS NOW THE SINGLE BIGGEST CAUSE OF SICKNESS IN THE UK. • OVER 105 MILLION DAYS ARE LOST TO STRESS EACH YEAR – COSTING UK EMPLOYERS £1.24 BILLION.

REASONS:

• WORKLOAD PRESSURES INCLUDING SCHEDULING SHIFT WORK AND OTHER ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS. • INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS INCLUDING DIFFICULTIES WITH SUPERIORS AND BULLYING OR HARASSMENT. • CHANGES AT WORK INCLUDING REDUCTION OF RESOURCE OR STAFF AND ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES.

PROOF:

• YOU CAN SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE WORKING LIFE FOR 20% OF YOUR STAFF, WITH ALL THE KNOCK-ON BENEFITS OF REDUCED ABSENTEEISM AND LOWER TURNOVER.

• FOR EVERY £1 YOU INVEST IN STAFF WELL-BEING, THERE’S A RETURN OF £3 IN IMPROVED EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY.

(SOURCE HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE 2013/14)

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. INVEST NOW IN YOUR STAFF'S HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND WELLBEING.

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CONTACT US

Website: http://www.human-business.co.uk | Email: mailto:[email protected]

Direct Line: 03330 118 999 | Mobile: 07977 114031 | Skype: chimp-chat

Twitter: @followthechimp | LinkedIn: Deniz Paradot

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