Organizational Coaching

From Quiet Quitting ➡ to Engagement

From Striving ➡ to Thriving

From Overwhelm ➡ to Purposeful Action

From Exhaustion ➡ to Vitality

From Frustration ➡ to Compassion

From Rushing ➡ to Flowing

From Tension ➡ to Ease

Create a workplace where employees are committed to living and working easefully, joyfully and effectively.

Increase effectiveness and engagement by providing your teams with powerful mindfulness skills to increase their concentration power, hone their clarity and effective decision-making, and find strength in collaboration and communication.

Ensure employee retention by reducing burnout and inspiring employees to do their best work each and every day.

Does your workforce currently feel…

Overwhelmed by the pace and demands of the day
Exhausted and starting to burn out
Tied to the clock. Always rushing, always falling behind
Really tired and drained
Feeling constant pressure
No longer excited or motivated by their work

The Challenge: The Impact of Poor Mental Health

Over 500,000 Canadians will be absent from work in a given week due to mental reasons. About one million Americans miss work each day because of stress.
1 in 3 Canadians, and 1 in 2 Canadian millennials will experience mental illness in their lifetime.
76% of US workers report that workplace stress affects their personal relationships.
On average, mental health issues cost businesses almost $1,500 per employee, per year.
The cost of mental illnesses to the Canadian economy is estimated at over $50 billion annually, with $20 billion of that stemming directly from workplace losses.
Depression-induced absenteeism costs US businesses $51 billion a year, as well as an additional $26 billion in treatment costs.
21.4% of the working population is experiencing a mental health concern.
Mental health conditions make up 30% of short and long-term disability claims, and 80% of payments.

The key question is...

How can your workplace become a place where people feel excited and motivated to contribute, able to effectively make decisions, and master navigating today’s fast pace of change and uncertainty with clarity and ease?
How do you increase retention and support your key talent in a marketplace with a lot of options? This requires that you support your employees holistically.
What does it take for your employees to work and live with ease, flow and joy, connecting deeply with their work, their clients and colleagues, waking up excited about the workday and enjoying the little moments in life as much as the big achievements?

Is this even possible???

✨YES✨

It is possible to have this level of engagement and productivity in today’s workplace.

The Live the Present Solution

Build Focus, Clarity & Balance

Live the Present delivers systematic training on practices that optimize the neurobiological development of the brain to increase resilience.

Our practical system improves organizational capacity and resilience by sharing evidence-based best practices that foster optimal leadership behaviours, enable the shift to an inclusive, accessible workplace culture, and support the mental health and wellbeing of all employees.

Our programs help:

Deliver on Leadership commitments to support the mental health of all employees by expanding resources and services;
Focus on systematic attentional skills and ensure change sticks;
Provide consistent, doable, scalable supports for busy professionals;
Increase leadership capacity and strengthen leadership competencies;
Reduce stress, improve productivity and enhance employee engagement;
Support leaders and teams through transformational change in a robust and sustained manner;
Ensure responsive program design and evaluation by content experts with extensive professional training in mindfulness;
Provide wellness supports that go beyond mental health to support the physical, physiological and psychological health of employees since these are all connected to mental wellbeing.
Expected outcomes
Establish mindfulness and resilience as core competencies for your workforce;
Adaptively fill mental health, wellness, and leadership training programming gaps;
Move from individual, treatment-oriented approach to mental health to a preventative systemic skills development model;
Build employee resilience, continuity, engagement;
Scale-up the capacity of employees to better deliver programs and supports for clients and stakeholders;
Leverage trauma-informed leadership approaches to optimize transformation efforts.

Proven Benefits of Mindfulness Training

In its report, “The ROI in workplace mental health programs: Good for people, good for business” Deloitte stated that for every $1 spent on mental health programs, employers will earn $2.18.

A survey conducted by the Institute of Mindful Leadership stated that 93% of leaders reported that mindfulness training helped them create space for innovation, 89% that it improved listening skills and nearly 70% said it helped them to think strategically.

University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business research studies on mindfulness interventions established that mindfulness improves:

Resilience

95% ↓ stress

95% ↑ mental health

90% ↑ physical health

Productivity

95% ↑ focus

92% ↑ engaged at work

80% ↑ time management

Collaboration

95% ↑ managing conflict

85%↑ working together

82% ↑ communication

The Immersive Program includes…

Motivational Seminar

A transformational one-time experience to build motivation and provide information and strategies to bring connection, focus, clarity and ease to your workplace.
Seminars can be tailored for your organization’s unique needs, challenges and objectives.
Experiences can be from a ½ day to 2 days, virtual or in person.
Includes a Workbook with suggested tips and tools for implementation

Sample seminars include:

Mindfulness: From Striving to Thriving

This workshop will introduce the concept of mindfulness, the significant benefits it can provide for your work and life – including resilience to skillfully respond to change, and an ability to experience increased joy, gratitude and wellbeing – and provide an opportunity to try out a few mindfulness practices.

Overcoming Overwhelm

This seminar will help you identify what is causing overwhelm in your life and explore ways to respond in clear and effective ways. The seminar will also provide simple, practical tools and strategies to help regain a sense of balance, ease and wellbeing in the midst of challenging and overwhelming circumstances.

Redefining Success and Resilience

The workshop will explore how to define success and resilience, identify the habits that may causing stagnation or frustration, and provide effective tools and strategies to find ease, wellbeing, meaningful success and sustained resilience.

Making the Most of the Your Valuable Time

The seminar will explore how we can empower our language and communication when it comes to time, uncovering what we are actually doing with our day as opposed to what we’d like to do, the current struggles and obstacles keeping you from living with ease, and a pathway to get you there.

Thriving through Change and Transitions

This workshop will introduce tools, practices, and principles that can help you assess the primary areas of importance in your life, determine whether change is needed, develop options, clarify what conflicts are at play, and begin to identify your priorities and tasks.

Wellness Tips for Challenging Times

This facilitated discussion explore the new realities of the hybrid workplace, unprecedented levels of uncertainty and change, and how to best take care of yourself, your team and your loved ones during these challenging times.

Mindfulness for Career Success

3 Steps to Transform Overwhelm, Exhaustion and Burnout to Clarity, Courage and Vision.

This seminar will provide an overview of why mindfulness matters to professionals, as well as an in-depth, practical application of mindfulness techniques to reduce stress, increase clarity and efficiency, improve communication, and establish a clear sense of purpose and wellbeing.

The Foundational Program includes…

An opportunity to build community, identify key stressors, needs and challenges, and practice powerful mindfulness techniques that will help restore focus, clarity and ease.

The program is designed to allow for participants to practice together, integrate tools and techniques in their daily work and lives, and receive consistent coaching support for a 6 week period in order to solidify the skills learned.

The structure of the program will allow employees to learn and practice mindfulness in the workplace and become more skillful in communication, collaboration, and execution as they build their resilience and wellbeing.

1. 6 Live Group Coaching Sessions, as follows:

Session 1 – From Striving to Thriving

This session will introduce the concepts of mindfulness and yoga therapy, and the significant benefits they can provide for your work and life – including resilience to skillfully respond to change, and an ability to experience increased joy, gratitude and wellbeing. Introduction to the “SEE HEAR FEEL” technique and how it reduces overwhelm.

Session 2 – How to Relax, Recharge and Find Balance (without losing your ambition)

Participants will learn how to discover and pay skillful attention to relaxation and to nurture it—experiencing it more frequently and more deeply. Introduction to the “FEEL REST” technique, gentle breathe and therapeutic movement practice and how to use them to manage stress and find balance.

Session 3 – Feeling Good and Creating Positivity

Participants will learn to detect subtle positive states and experience increased gratitude and wellbeing. Introduction to the “Feel Good” technique, non-linear movement and somatic exploration as opportunities to feel good in your body and learn how to notice and create positivity in your life.

Session 4 - Getting in the Zone & Going with the Flow

Learn how to transcend pain and obstacles by tapping into the continual movement of life. Discover the “FEEL FLOW” technique, how it relates to peak performance, and how you can access it for increased well-being.

Session 5 - It’s Fun (and Effective!) to Be Spontaneous

How many times in the day do you find yourself on "auto pilot"—just going through the motions? Well, that doesn't have to be a problem. You can use those moments to deepen your skills. The “Auto Move”, "Auto Walk" and “Auto Think” techniques will show you how to develop spontaneity, creativity, and connect with your intuition.

Session 6 – Mindfulness and Yoga Therapy in Daily Life

Learn how to use the “SEE HEAR FEEL”, “FEEL REST”, “FEEL GOOD”, “FEEL FLOW” and “AUTO” techniques as well as therapeutic movement and breathing in daily life. Learn how and when to use each of these to accelerate your mindfulness and yoga therapy practice and apply it to any situation.

2. Happiness Grid Assessment

An exploration of which areas of your life are calling for your attention. What are your

intentions for the course? Where are you currently? What do you wish to access,

strengthen and cultivate?

3. Replays from each session

Replays will be provided and accessible to participants so they can continue listening, practicing and honing their skills.

4. Bonus #1 - Guided meditations to support each learning module

Topics covered include:

Establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries at work, at home and between the two
How to relieve stress over deadlines
How to relieve resentment (emotional regulation and clarity)
Prioritizing efforts
Inspiration
Vision and intention setting
How to be both relaxed and alert
How to not get drained by your activities and retain energy for what is most important
How to recover from making mistakes
Situation practice for working with guilt, shame, fear and making mistakes
How to unplug and navigate discomfort

5. Bonus #2: Weekly Journal for clarity and implementation support

How to prioritize your efforts
Boundary-setting
Vision and Intention setting
Celebrating growth

6. Bonus #3: Community support in-between sessions for connection, troubleshooting, motivation and resources

7. Bonus #4: One 30-minute Mindfulness Work Planning Private Coaching Session for participants – For groups of up to 20

Building Focus, Clarity, Courage and Ease for Lawyers and Busy Professionals 6 session group coaching program (live or recorded).

8. Final Evaluation

Identify whether key goals and objectives were met, and develop a roadmap to continue progress and implementation

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach me at Paula@livethepresent.ca if you cannot find an answer to your question.

What if my staff miss a live group session due to work commitments?

No problem! All sessions can be recorded and e-mailed to participants to watch on their own time.

These programs will make employees less productive and available.

Mindfulness provides the attention skills of concentration, clarity and balance. These are essential for employees in order to make good decisions, stay engaged and connected to their work, and able to respond effectively in high-pressure, time sensitive situations.

Research has shown that mindfulness significantly improve resilience, productivity, and collaboration at work.

My staff don’t have the time for mindfulness or new habits. They already swamped.

Science shows us that we don’t need to spend long periods in silence or stillness for mindfulness to impact our minds and our lives.
Using the activities that they are already doing, we build in techniques and strategies to unclutter the mind and create more spaciousness, without much additional time needed.
The more employees are able to apply these habits to their life, the more space and ease they will feel, create and find in their workday.

We have no budget for your services.

Here are some statistics you can use in decision making discussions on whether investing in employee mental health and wellness is worthwhile:

The Return on Investment on workplace Mental Health Programs is $2.18 per $1.00 spent.
Over 500,000 Canadians will be absent from work in a given week due to mental reasons.
1 in 3 Canadians, and 1 in 2 Canadian millennials will experience mental illness in their lifetime.
About one million Americans miss work each day because of stress.
76% of US workers report that workplace stress affects their personal relationships.
On average, mental health issues cost businesses almost $1,500 per employee, per year.
The cost of mental illnesses to the Canadian economy is estimated at over $50 billion annually, with $20 billion of that stemming directly from workplace losses.
Depression-induced absenteeism costs US businesses $51 billion a year, as well as an additional $26 billion in treatment costs.
21.4% of the working population is experiencing a mental health concern.
Mental health conditions make up 30% of short and long-term disability claims, and 80% of payments.

People should be able to do this work themselves.

Getting support is an essential element of mindfulness, as others can often see the blind spots we miss, and reflect back to us the value of who we are that we often miss on our own.
The techniques and practices that your team will learn through this process are theirs to keep! My aim is to fill their toolbox so that going forward they will know what they need to practice when, and the need for guidance and support will decrease over time.

We have tried meditation or yoga programs at work before and they have failed – People are too busy, they find it boring, they feel they are doing it wrong, and it is not a positive experience

This is the most common challenge that people come to me with!
We often think the goal of yoga or meditation is to have a pleasant or positive experience, or to “quiet” the mind. Yoga and mindfulness are actually about building Attention Skills.
Just like going to the gym is not always easy, but if we lift weights we will invariably get stronger, when we practice mindfulness it may feel confusing or hard, but the practice itself will invariably bring benefits and results including focus, resilience, energy, clarity and joy.
Together we will find the right structures and techniques that will make the practice accessible and enjoyable for your team.

Other people are interfering with my ability to participate – i.e. boss, young kids or partnerOther people are interfering with my employees’ ability to participate – i.e. boss, young kids or partner

While it would be nice to have free time to practice and get away from our responsibilities, the beauty of this practice is that we can actually bring it to our busy days!

Together we will turn walls into windows and find ways to incorporate all your team’s obligations into their mindfulness practice.

Whatever your work presents, we will find a way to make mindfulness work for you.

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