Mindfulness for Leaders:

4-Week Online Course

An Online Mindful Leadership Program for Australian Workplaces. Develop Calm, Clear & Connected Leaders & Employees.

Mindfulness for Leaders Course: Lead with Clarity, Calm & Connection

In today's fast-paced, and complex business landscape, leaders are facing unprecedented challenges. It's easy to feel distracted, disconnected, and overwhelmed, which can impact decision-making, team dynamics, and overall performance. The Mindful Leader Course offers a transformative opportunity to build resilience, cultivate focus, and enhance your leadership presence. Over four weeks, you'll develop the skills to foster inner clarity and calm, empowering your teams connections and yourself with greater purpose and effectiveness.

This course is designed for corporate professionals, managers, and executives who want to enhance their impact. Mindfulness isn't just a personal practice—it's a powerful skill for navigating the demands of the modern workplace. Grounded in neuroscience and psychological principles, this program provides evidence-based strategies to expand awareness, enhance emotional intelligence, and foster deeper, more authentic relational connections within your organisation.

Why Mindfulness For Leaders?

Modern work culture often pulls us away from a state of focused presence, leaving us feeling stressed and disconnected from our teams and our personal purpose. As leaders, we need to be able to sustain our presence, make sound decisions, and show up fully for the people we lead. Mindfulness bridges this gap, empowering you to navigate stress, reclaim a sense of agency, and build compassionate connections that support a thriving team culture. Through systematic practice, group discussions, and guided reflection, you’ll learn:

Strategic Application: The course provides structured guidance on using mindfulness techniques to support team well-being and productivity, including stress reduction, emotional regulation, and fostering a culture of presence.
Ethical & Accountable Leadership: Emphasis is placed on professional boundaries, ethical considerations, and adapting mindful leadership practices to different team and client needs.
Personal Practice & Leading with Presence: A key component of the course is your own mindfulness practice, which is essential for cultivating self-awareness, resilience, and the capacity to lead with authority and purpose.
Diversity & Inclusion: The course explores how mindfulness can be adapted to diverse cultural backgrounds and personal experiences, ensuring accessibility and sensitivity in your leadership style.
Emerging Leadership Practice: Participants engage with contemporary, evidence-based leadership approaches, such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), which is increasingly recognised in high-performing organisations.

Course Highlights

Neuroscience of Mindfulness: Understand how mindfulness rewires the brain to enhance focus, emotional regulation, and adaptive thinking.
Mindful Leadership Techniques: Explore practical tools to reawaken sensory awareness, creativity, and flow states to boost innovation, peak performance and problem-solving.
Relational and Culturally Aware Practices: Deepen your connection to others through exercises designed to inspire a sense of belonging and purpose within your team, while being mindful of cultural context.
Ecological Mindset: Develop an eco-centric awareness to support practices and leadership that considers the wider interconnectedness of your organisation with community and the environment.
Practical Self-Leadership Tools: Learn how to lead with presence, clarity, and compassion in the face of complex and challenging times.

Course Overview

The Mindfulness for Leaders Course blends practical tools and deep insights to support a holistic and authentic leadership.

Week 1: What is True Mindfulness? Discovering Presence and Purpose.

Discover the foundations of mindfulness and core mindsets to form an effective leadership practice.
Explore awakening your senses, opening up your mind, and facilitating co-regulation to enhance social cohesion.
Expand awareness to better understand the root of organisational challenges and move toward more ethical leadership.
Explore a series of mind-body practices designed to support greater self-awareness and presence.

Week 3: Cultivating Empathy, Compassion, Equanimity and Resilience.

Recognise and understand the nature of stress and its effects on the body, mind, and emotions of both you and your people.
Explore the difference between proactive and reactive and develop your authentic leadership style.
Learn mindfulness-based strategies for navigating difficulties with acceptance, compassion and creativity.
Activate the caregiving system to promote emotional co-regulation and strengthen relational bonds within your community.
Engage in mind-body practices to cultivate resilience and a sense of belonging.

Week 2: Mind-Body-Social Awareness and Emotional Intelligence.

Understand the link between mental and physical states and how to leverage this for peak performance and vitality.
Cultivate a "beginner's mind" to observe patterns of thinking and sensing, and develop a listening style that builds trust, rapport and emergent awareness.
Expand awareness of the interconnection of team culture, global challenges and environment.
Explore a series of beneficial mind-body practices to help you embody awareness, foster insight, and deepen connections with colleagues.

Week 4: Mindful Living and an Authentic Leadership Vision.

Learn practical ways to integrate mindfulness into your leadership role to foster a deeper sense of purpose and enhance your impact.
Explore interconnections and reflect on relationships with mindful listening, intimacy, clarity, and understanding.
Discover how moments of joy, awe, and play can enrich your life and sustain you and your community through uncertainty and challenge.
Engage in the final practices and clarify your authentic vision for mindful living and leadership.
Reflect on how your leadership can contribute to a more sustainable business world and interconnected culture.

Key Benefits of the Course

Cultivate a natural, mindful presence with authenticity.
Enhance your capacity to lead with clarity and attune to your people's needs.
Develop a somatic practice to ground yourself and others in the present moment.
Experience reduced stress and anxiety under pressure and heightened resilience.
Gain clarity, compassion, and insight for navigating complex business and people challenges.
Promote Sustainable Work Practices and lead with an awareness of the broader social and environmental impact of your work.

Online Course Details

Duration: 4 weeks
Live Facilitation: 6 hours (1.5 hours/week)
Online Modules: Self-paced learning resources.
Recordings: Available for replay after each session.
Additional Materials: Guided practices, worksheets, and exercises.
Delivery Format: Fully online via Zoom with interactive elements.
Available for Workplace Delivery or Invoices provided for PD

Find out more

This course isn’t just about mindfulness meditation—it’s about integrating mindful awareness into every aspect of your life and leadership. Whether you're a seasoned executive, a manager leading a team, or an aspiring leader seeking to grow, this course equips you with the tools to rise to the challenges of our time with awareness, compassion, and wisdom. Build a culture of psychosocial safety, environmental awareness and embrace diversity with inclusive, ethical and collective well-being practices and strategies that are evidence-based and practical. Discover a program that can champion an on-going ways of working for a sustainable future.

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