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Mindfulness at Work Ltd is passionate about helping enable people and businesses to be more successful and happier. Working with highly respected Mindfulness experts, Mindfulness at Work offers training programmes for the workplace – to make it a more productive, creative, fulfilling and enjoyable place to be.

The genesis of Mindfulness at Work Ltd was inspired by the founders’ experiences of the workplace and how the practices of Mindfulness can enhance one’s business success as well as all areas of life.

Former Investment Bank Director, Louise Chester, has always freely acknowledged that her daily Mindfulness practice gave her the ‘edge’ and directly contributed to her significant success in the City. It led her to create a unique award-winning, Mindfulness-based battery-recharging Retreat in Kent. The ‘magic ‘ of Witherdens Hall has helped many weary and frazzled individuals to return refreshed and inspired to their daily lives, with new tools to enable them to enhance their lives considerably.

As an event organiser for FTSE 100 companies and governments, Caroline Hopkins was used to creating and planning several events at a time. She knew that quick lateral thinking and clearly-focussed organisational skills were the key to running successful events. Remaining calm in all situations, always being one step ahead and running several project teams was all part of the territory. This could have led to a build-up of stress which would inevitably manifest at a physical level, but over time Caroline came to realise that a Mindfulness practice could give her the resilience to be at the top of her game, and stay there. Developing a practice of Mindfulness was an awakening experience and she realised what huge impact it could have to enhance other people’s lives in the workplace – enabling them to live the best life possible, achieving great personal and business success.

The Founders of Mindfulness at Work Ltd have now taken the ‘magic’ of Mindfulness into the workplace and beyond. Having experienced the acute stresses and strains faced moment to moment in business, they know that learning to respond rather than react makes all the difference. And being completely present and aware in meetings with clients and colleagues, whilst remaining innovative, objective and ‘on purpose’, creates the possibility of the most value creating outcomes.

The science-based Mindfulness training developed in Massachusetts in the 1970s and now adopted and developed by Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and other leading universities, has been clinically proven to change the brain’s neural pathways, enhancing awareness, deep concentration, emotional resilience and creativity thereby enabling us to experience happier and more fulfilled lives. This is borne out by the many global companies such as Apple, Google, Deutsche Bank and Astra Zeneca are embracing Mindfulness and reporting improved performance of their employees on all levels.