PACE TALK: "FULL CATASTROPHE LIVING" WITH “MINDFUL LEADERSHIP”

Continuing to accompany the business community to overcome challenging times, PACE Talk with the theme "FULL CATASTROPHE LIVING / Good book on ‘Mindfulness’ - A new leadership revolution" was held on August 14, 2021.

Co-hosted by Mindful Leadership Vietnam / PACE-MLV (A member of PACE) and Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI), the talkshow spread meaningful messages from the famous book called "Full Catastrophe Living" and and other unique books of the "Mindfulness Book Series" which are selected, translated and published exclusively by PACE Books; the show also shared a new leadership method that PACE has made efforts to initiate and is strongly promoting in Vietnam - "Mindful Leadership".

The live talkshow had nearly 15,000 views on Livestream from Zoom and Facebook with the participation and follow-up of business community.

Speakers at PACE Talk in August: 

"Full Catastrophe Living | Good book on ‘Mindfulness’ - A new leadership revolution  

SPIRIT, MEANING AND MESSAGE CONVEYED FROM THE BOOK "FULL CATASTROPHE LIVING"

When discuss about the title "Full Catastrophe Living" and its association with the current pandemic context, Dr. Gian Tu Trung shared that "Full Catastrophe Living" is a title that contains a very deep meaning about human life that PACE has taken a long time to understand and summarize to share widely to readers.

The book not only discusses the "sufferings" that people have to go through, but also contains and conveys the strength of mental, meaningful message and method of "Full Catastrophe Living" to help people wake up, face and solve all difficulties bravely, eventually they can overcome all issues. . . this is the power that we all need right now, right at this time of pandamic and disease.

Looking into the present context, it is easy for each of us to see what the suffering and loss that each person, each home is experiencing. And especially hundreds of thousands of businesses are at risk of bankruptcy, exhaustion and influenced significantly from the pandemic. However, the most painful thin is no one has been able to solve this scour.

Therefore, covid vaccine is necessary but not enough, we also need to strengthen the spiritual vaccine, so that each person - each home - each business can maintain the spirit of "full catastrophe living", overcome all challenges and sufferings of the next crisis.

There are many concepts and interpretations of mindfulness, but at PACE-MLV, we believe "Mindfulness is a sense of reality with an open mind and a compassionate heart." Particularly, Mindfulness is not only mindfulness meditation, but also living mindfulness. With the concept, learning and practice mindfulness at PACE-MLV is all based on science, not spirituality or religion.

Agree with what Dr. Gian Tu Trung said about the spirit of "full catastrophe living" which is also the name of book title translated and published by PACE, speaker Le Nguyen Tran Huynh - one of the translators of the Mindfulness Book Series; and also the certified lecturers of "Search Inside Yourself" Program (SIY) have an detail analysis in term of "full catastrophe living".

"Full Catastrophe Living" written by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's was born in the context of struggles and difficulties as the current epidemic context. Due to the sense the stressful situation at the time, Jon Kabat-Zinn aplied on his mindfulness practices and scientific insights to create the “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction” Program (1979). This is the first and most popular program of mindfulness based on science and still used wisely today, all of the methods of the program were included in his book "Full Catastrophe Living”.

If stress, pressure drains energy, weakens health and makes people more susceptible to anxiety, depression, disconnection and disease, even shortening people's lives, "Full Catastrophe Living" is the mental vaccine for everyone, including the elderly and the young, the healthy and the sick – anyone who tries to live a healthier and happier life in an unpredictably volatile world.

Mr. Le Nguyen Tran Huynh also shared that by practicing mindfulness exercises in the book "Full Catastrophe Living", we know clearly how to use body-mind methods which proven medically base on a foundation of meditation and yoga to be able to fight stress, establish a better balance of body and mind, and become healthier and healing.

In particular, using this method, people can learn to manage chronic pain, promote optimal healing, reduce anxiety and feelings of panic, and improve the quality of life, relationships and social connections.

Following up the above sharing, Mr. Tran Vinh Tan also emphasized that mindfulness practice is essential in all circumstances, especially in the context of overlapping challenges and risks that we are facing today.

This explains that, whether there is an epidemic or not, every human being needs to balance his mind and minimize their stress in life to have a happy life. However, with the stressful situation of the pandemic, it is important that the human need mental care & healing for themself.

Based on his perspective on mindfulness application in the process of participating in the translation of "Full Catastrophe Living", Mr. Tran Vinh Tan shared most 4 basic things from the book that leaders need to keep in mind:

  • Change and crisis are always there in life
  • Not only accept, but understand the crisis
  • Kindness and understanding are necessary in the face of crisis
  • The role of thinking, and the application of mindfulness in crisis

MINDFUL LEADERSHIP - A NEW LEADERSHIP REVOLUTION

Beside "Full Catastrophe Living", there are many other books in Mindfulness Book Series which are selected, translated and published exclusively by PACE Books such as "The Mind of The Leader" and "The Mindful Leader".

 

"Mindfulness Book Series" selected, translated and published by PACE Books 

Mr. Hoang Manh Hai, one of the translators of the book series, also agree that these valuable books have been and will be initiating and contributing to promoting a new leadership trend in Vietnam for all leaders in the current context of confusion and tension: Mindful Leadership.

According to him, in term of Leadership knowledge, Mindfulness is highly recommended concept by the authors in the two books "The Mind of The Leader" and "The Mindful Leader", this is an important solution for today's leaders because:

  • Helping to leverage the core of leadership from inside
  • Adapting promptly to the VUCA, helping the business community to clearly see the problem and improve the leadership vision
  • Help leaders achieve results beyond expectations. It brings happiness, not just achievement; it brings value, not just success; it brings civilization, not just growth

Dr. Gian Tu Trung also shared that, the more faced with uncertainties and disasters, the more leaders need to look within themselves, the more they need to awaken their inner leadership, which is Mindful Leadership.

He also emphasized the power of applying Mindful Leadership in life, at work so that leaders can find for themselves a different, better version of leadership, which not only helps themselves overcome suffering, disease, this also leads their team to withstand all the issue of the times. It can be self-centered people with an open mind, a kind heart, and a sufficient understanding of the situation they are facing.

In the book “The Mind Of The Leader”, the authors reveal a MSC Leadership model (mindfulness selflessness compassion):

  • Mindfulness
  • Selflessness
  • Compassion

This MSC Leader model builds on two years of in-depth research by Harvard Business Review with over 35,000 leaders in thousands of businesses across 100 countries.

 

 

MSC Leadership Model 

(Mindfulness - Selflessness - Compassion) 

 

Dr. Gian Tu Trung also analyzed the concept of Mindfulness in Mindful Leadership and Mindfulness is also the foundation for shaping today's leadership trends, including Search Inside Yourself.

APPROPRIATE TRAINING TRENDS IN THE CURRENT CONTEXT OF VIETNAMESE 

Through the sharing of the accompanying speakers, thousands of attendees who are entrepreneurs and corporate agencies also had the opportunity to understand more about the importance of Mindfulness and Mindful Leadership, as well as its necessity in leadership development. In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of business leaders around the world who have practiced mindfulness leadership to enhance their leadership over the years.

In Vietnam, PACE is the leading institute that has made efforts to initiate and is strongly promoting the Mindful Leadership to the leadership community and businesses through the Mindfulness Book Series (by PACE’s Book) and “Search Inside Yourself” (SIY), “Mindful Leadership Program” (MLP).

1/ "Search Inside Yourself" (SIY) Program 

The "Search Inside Yourself" (SIY) program is the world's famous training program; based on the foundation of Neuroscience, Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness Practice, which was born at Google and is now globally recognized.

 

 

 

As a Certified Lecturer from Search Inside Yourself (SIY) – speaker Le Nguyen Tran Huynh also continued to share to explain why the SIY program has received the attention of so many leaders & enterprises in the world during recent years.

SIY is a great combination of Neuroscience, Mindfulness Meditation and Emotional Intelligence to help individuals and organizations reach their full potential.

Based on the latest scientific research, Search Inside Yourself (SIY) helps learners develop the leadership competencies and emotional intelligence needed to manage stress, improve focus, nurture creative thinking, and improve your ability to cope with any challenge.

From there, learners will have greater self-awareness and self-control, work performance, ability to communicate and lead more effectively, as well as experience calmness, happiness and stability from inside. 

Mindful Leadership Program (MLP)

Besides SIY which is famous all over the world, as well as in Vietnam. Specifically, PACE has also researched and designed a training program "Mindful Leadership Program" (MLP) to serve business leaders in Vietnam with easier access to this new leadership trend.

 

 

Mr. Hoang Manh Hai, who has been a translator of Mindful Learship, has been a lecturer in PACE's Mindful Leadership Program (MLP) for a long enough time to be able to identify that mindful leadership trends are essential and very suitable for general application to the business community in Vietnam

MLP is a special training program to develop mindful leadership and create a “Happiness-At-Work Culture” for teams and organizations, developed by PACE based on new research Harvard Business Review and 3 of the world's most prominent works on Mindfulness Leadership are copyrighted, translated, and exclusively published by PACE-MLV in Vietnam.

Finally, according to Mr. Hai, the purpose of the program is to help leaders know how to manage their minds and develop their leadership capacity to build a happy team, and a happy and sustainable organization.

SHARING SPACE & SUGGESTING SOLUTIONS TO CREATE THE RIGHT LEADERSHIP METHOD FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY

At the talkshow, the speaker not only opened and inspired a new leadership trend for the leadership community in particular and the business community in general, but also brought a space for all participants to listen and share their stories and difficulties, then together solve the issue of their mental health as well as of the team in today's turbulent times.

Through this PACE Talk, we hope that leaders have more motivation to build a strong foundation of mental strength for the business, eventually the team overcome strongly through all the crisis.

Watch video on PACE Talk in August: "Full Catastrophe Living | Good book on ‘Mindfulness’ - A new leadership revolution here.

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