ThePresentShow: Recent Episodes
Lele and MindfulPat
Today in episode 80 of the Present Show we talk to Nancy Siegle mindful teacher of teachers, or kids and students. Nancy is a recognized presenter, trainer and instructor specialized in Educational Leadership, yoga and mindfulness.
Find more about Nancy here https://nancysiegelconsulting.com/
In the show we discuss more in particular about:
- Is anger allowed?
- What to do with kids how to calm them down?
- Children wellbeing and future of education
- How to start teaching mindfulness?
- Mindfulness and learning
- Mindfulness and skepticism
Mindful minute of today offered by Nancy is Layers of Sound. Enjoy!
today we talk to Geetha Rao, Transformation lead@IBM and mindfulness practitioner for quite a while.
We touch some points like: - what's mindfulness for her - the beauty of looking inside ourselves and benefits - how to talk to others about mindfulness - what's the "harm" caused by attempting to practice
Today we talk to Martina Richly, mindfulness student and IBMer about her journey into mindfulness and how the practice helped her to gain back her focus abilities.
We also talk about:
- Mindfulness VS meditation
- Mindfulness and stress
- How to overcome distractions during meditation
- Taking back focus and benefits of mindfulness practice
Enjoy.
Interviewing Chris Dancy touted as “the Most Connected Human on Earth,” talking to us about his journey into mindfulness and into connection with people and devices.
We discuss: 1. What it means to be the most connected human and why 2. What's mindful cyborg 3. How should be the relationship between humans and devices 4. How to survive the notification jungle 5. Is technology bringing us away from people of are there other ways to bring people back into the picture?
For more about Chris check out his website https://www.chrisdancy.com
Today we talk to Manoj Balachandran, manager @IBM and Mindfulness@IBM leader, is sharing in our show his experience with mindfulness, how he discovered it in the corporate world and applied to his leadership style.
We talk also about the non judgmental aspect of the mindfulness practice and how to deal with our own constant attitude to judge everything.
Pat is also sharing a very cool story.
So enjoy the show and thanks for watching and sharing.
During this episode we brought in Scott Crabtree, Chief Happiness Officer at Happy Brain Science. Scott shared with us a wealth of science, wisdom and knowledge around the topic of Happiness and Mindfulness. His years of experience around this topic resonate throughout this episode and his tips and tricks are golden nuggets we can all implement in our lives.
We talk about happiness and in particular: 1. how to define happiness 2. how to measure happiness 3. how to become happier 4. what's the relationship between mindfulness and happiness 5. has acceptance anything to do with happiness 6. how to start to be happier?
Thanks share and enjoy!
You can find more about Scott at this websites: https://www.happybrainscience.com
Today we speak to Patrice Berlinski (Mindfulness Consultant, Educator & Life Coach at Presence to Pupils, Inc.)
We cover the following topics:
Patrice and her mindfulness journey
The benefits of mindfulness to kids and to adults
Importance of having mindful families and how kids can bring mindfulness at home
What’s right time to start talking about mindfulness to your kids
What’s the consequence of mindfulness in the office environment
You can watch parts of the conversation here http://ibm.biz/thepresentshow
Thanks share and enjoy!
You can find more about Patrice in her websites: https://www.vibewell.com https://www.facebook.com/presence2pupils https://www.facebook.com/patrice.berlinski
Today we talk to Jade Ku Sonkin (Director, Corporate Omni Media for L'ORÉAL USA) She's leading a mindfulness program in her corporate and she's sharing in the video the benefits of the programs and all what comes along when people start practicing mindfulness.
In detail we talk about: 1. the importance of connect breath and body and what role the breath is playing in it 2. how to overcome emotional stressful moments 3. how to talk about mindfulness to people that don't like this buzzword 4. wash dishes as you are taking care of a baby, that will make it a mindful activity
This week in The Present Show we talk to Breanna Robinson author of the Children's Book "Be Gone, Fear".
You can find more about Bre at this link www.breannarobinson.com
In this episode we talk about:
What's fear.
Why we are scared.
How to teach children to overcome their fears
What's the role mindfulness (and the present) plays to overcome our fears
Find also here the "Don't worry practice" shared by Bre in a mindful minute.
You can watch us into our YouTube channel http://ibm.biz/thepresentshow
Today Lele is interviewing MindfulPat about his latest experience teaching and practicing mindfulness in the IBM Cloud Fast Start 2019 that engaged him in New Orleans and Madrid between Jan and Feb.
In this episode we cover: 1. What's the Fast start and the activities 2. What was the reaction of the participants 3. What were the main push back to mindfulness 4. What to do to start practicing 5. What's coming up in #thepresentshow
Today we are with Elchanan Ogorek author or the book "The Present is a Gift" that address teachings of mindfulness and Yoga to children.
In this episode we cover: 1. Elchanan's experience and background that inspired him to write the book 2. Some of the animals of the book and what they mean 3. Why it's important to bring mindfulness to our kids 4. Importance of being mindful parents
today we are with John Shearer, a coach a mentor, and experienced practitioner, simply a mindfulness master with thousands and thousands of hours of experience and many people following his guidance and practices.
You can follow John from his websites http://www.mindfulnesscoach.com.au Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/mindful99 Or from the community he established for a world mental health without medication. http://mindfullymad.org
In our show we talk about: 1. the life-changing journey that took John to start practicing mindfulness and becoming a coach 2. about ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) 3. about how John summarizes 9000 hours of mindfulness study in a ultimate simple formula 4. about time and the present 5. about why everyone needs mindfulness and lot cool of other topics and discussions.
This time The Present Show is with Amy E. Ashley, Talent Development Manager at Caterpillar Inc. and focused on leadership development and how purpose and culture relates to it in a corporation.
In this episode we talk about: 1. The importance of paying attention 2. The language to talk about mindfulness without talking about mindfulness 3. Gratefulness 4. Gratitude, leadership and problem solving
This time The Present Show is with Paul Heil, Employee Experience Specialist @IBM with a natural and long experience in mindfulness.
In this episode we talk about:
Paul journey into mindfulness
Tunnel vision
How we as humans have the natural tendency to switch on the autopilot
Body scan
Being always engaged with something VS just being with ourselves
Enjoy the show.
Today we are with Shalini Grover, IBMer, Learning Consultant and mindfulness practician. Shalini had a difficult a moment in her life when her body was not responding as it was usually doing. That's when her healing journey started and the way took her to mindfulness city.
In this episode we talk about: 1- the importance of being with ourselves 2- Shalini journey into mindfulness 3- What to do when you wash dishes 4- How who's not suited for meditation can be suited for it
Today we are with Karen Newell, co-founder of https://www.sacredacoustics.com mindfulness practitioner and passionate about the power of the sounds. You can learn more about Karen and her background https://www.sacredacoustics.com/pages/our-story
In this episode we talk about: 1. how sounds can help us to enter in a mindful state of mind 2. how to practice with sounds 3. what's the work and research of Karen around it that motivated her to found her company 4. what are the binaural beats Enjoy also the mindful minute with a sample of Karen's sounds
Today we talk with Laura Kempf, Business Transformation Consultant @IBM Watson Health.
Laura is a mindfulness practician and wrote recently a great book about servant leadership.
In the show we talk about 1. Why mindfulness increases team and individual productivity 2. What's the servant leadership 3. How mindfulness can help us to become servant leaders 4. Why mindfulness changed the way Laura does things 5. Mindfulness and ego
You can find here the book of Laura Inspiring Bold https://ibm.biz/BdYbgQ and subscribe to her Youtube channel https://ibm.biz/BdYbg3
Enjoy and subscribe on Youtube on our show.
Today we talk with Matthias Schulz mindfulness leader @IBM, meditation and yoga teacher.
We talk about 1. Why Yoga is 0% mind and 20% mind 😁 2. What is the connection between mind and boy 3. How to train your mindfulness like a muscle 💪 4. Why mindfulness makes you happy 🙃 5. How to get back to the driver seat of your mind
You can watch us here http://ibm.biz/thepresentshow
Today we talk with Natasha Bontempi, mindfulness leader @IBM Brazil and senior mindfulness instructor.
We talk about 1. Who can do mindfulness 2. Why you should start practicing 3. How to start 4. Why we are better persons with it 5. What's the future of mindulness
Enjoy!
In todays episode we have a guest from IBM
Duncan Cryle, Mindfulness practice leader in Canada that had 30+ years of practice experience in more than one country
With him we talk about several things:
- What are the benefits of mindfulness in time of change
- What more expert practitioners can do to move forward with mindfulness
- What exercise can you do to help both your eyes and awareness
- How mindfulness evolved in the recent years
- What it means to be mindful in a corporate
Subscribe on iTunes to our show to listen to the full interview http://ibm.biz/thepresentshowpodcast
This week we had Sean Harvey from Eileen Fisher joining us.
Sean is the Purpose, Personal Transformation & Wellbring Lead, who is growing and fostering Mindfulness at the company. Sean shares valuable insight into what a modern, forward thinking company does to take mindfulness to the next level and how all companies should be more bold and experiment with their own transformations.
In todays episode we have a guest from Aetna
Andy Lee, Chief Mindfulness Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylee03/
With him we talk about three things:
- How and why he started practicing mindfulness
- What's mindfulness for him, how to define it
- What are the benefits of mindfulness from his experience
Subscribe on iTunes to our show to listen to the full interview http://ibm.biz/thepresentshowpodcast
In this episode Lele & MindfulPat talk about three things:
- What the future of the present show will look like.
- Mindfulness being secular, as in not being a religion and how you can practice mindfulness without conflicting with your world beliefs.
- Happiness. What is happiness and how to be happy?
Checkout also at this link MindfulPat presentation in the IT Manager of Tomorrow conference 2018 in Poland
Power Up Speech
Mindfulness Keynote
Today Lele&MindfulPat talk to Liz Saunders about her experience as english teacher in Japan and how that mindful living in a small village led her to be more interested in it till she took a course and now she's going to start teaching and leading the way.
More about Liz here
with Lele & MindfulPat today we talk about the mindfulness training that is present in one of the IBM internal webpages in the Leadership Academy.
It's shares several good things we shared during #thepresentshow and many new different aspects of mindfulness.
We don't cover the whole training in one show but we talk about the most curious parts such as, leadership, happiness and the 10 things you should do everyday if you want to be mindful.
Enjoy and thanks for sharing.
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Today MindfulPat is with Anna&Aica from CBS (Copenhagen Business School) that have been studying their master thesis on mindfulness in organizations.
Few months ago they reached out to #thepresentshow to learn more about IBM and now MindfulPat interviewed them about their research, thesis, findings and what they think about mindfulness after having studied it for quite a while.
The chat is very interesting check it out!
More about Aica https://www.linkedin.com/in/malaicajeannebeduya/
More about Anna https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-iskrová-b1487997/
And of course you can always checkout our past episodes here
http://bit.ly/thepresentshow
And subscribe on iTunes https://ibm.biz/thepresentshowpodcast
Lele and MindfulPat today had a conversation about the show after almost one year.
- why we like ThePresentShow
- what's the importance of mindfulness?
- is mindfulness only in IBM?
- what did we learn doing this show?
- is mindfulness only about productivity?
Checkout the conversation and share with us what you think.
with Lele & MindfulPat today with Inez a great expert in Emotional Intelligence @IBM
The whole show is dedicated to EI (Emotional Intelligence)
- Why is it so important?
- Can we learn to control our emotions?
- How is it connected wit Mindfulness?
One of the most important conversations of our time to become better humans and live better with each other.
Enjoy the show.
For IBMers here the link to Emotional Intelligence community
http://ibm.biz/emotionalintelligence
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with MindfulPat and our guest of today Yvonne, IBM Executive and mindfulness practitioner that is bringing her experience with mindfulness and also how it changed her daily life to the point that she considers important to have a mobile free dinner each evening. Thanks a lot for watching subscribe to the show.
with Lele & MindfulPat Today with Bianca Branco, graphic designer and creative. We talk about energy, multitasking, working in a corporate and how to stop, breathe and take your time to think. To bring back your creative soul, prioritize and save that needed energy to keep smiling.
You can find Bianca here
Her Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/biihbranco/
and Youtube channel (in Portuguese) http://youtube.com/CotidianodeLeitores
and soon 1st and 2nd week of June we will be live each day for M10 and the 10 days of meditation challenge at 2pm on this channel http://bit.ly/M10Dchallenge
with Lele & MindfulPat and today Stefano that is sharing his recent mindfulness experience to relax and reduce stress. We talk about body scan, mobile apps and the coming beginning of a practice group in Stefano's location.
with Lele & MindfulPat today with Sarah, HR communication professional@IBM she's sharing her story how she met mindfulness along her career through Vicki (see Episode 45). How in her team they were doing a mindful minute in each of their meeting, how great it was for the team, how easy and beneficial. Learn how it can bring the team together.
with Lele & MindfulPat today with Cheyenne talking about life and how it will improve if you learn to live each one of your moments. Your awareness of what happens around and inside you moment by moment is what makes the difference
Today Patrick and Vicky are sharing the story of Mindfulness@IBM check the article here https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mindfulnessibm-employee-led-community-grassroots-vicki-flaherty/
with Lele today with Gosia that directly from Warsaw (Poland) she shared how she started practicing yoga. Then mindful yoga and then taking part into the MBSR, mindfulness based stress reduction 8 weeks course designed by Jon Kabat-Zinn A cool journey that ends with a perfect mindful minute. Check out also the mindful diving https://youtu.be/PdcJzKW0S2c and mindful eating https://youtu.be/fFSR-VIVWG8 streaming with Lele and Pat directly from Wroclow, enjoy!
with Lele & MindfulPat today interviewing Leanna.
Leanna started practicing mindfulness a couple of months before this show and in the video she's sharing the good aspects she found in it and also what her peers think about it. The chat moves then on the simplicity and accessibility of the practice: what means to be in the present moment? How different is for each individual? Will you experience the present differently since you start practicing? A nice conversation to watch and comment below. Pat at one point mentioned a recent TED Talk about mindfulness you can watch it here
with Lele today and Dora talking about the first step of Dora's mindfulness journey, why she decided to give it a try and how she found it helpful to be aware of all those distractions that keep us away from living in the present moment. A great conversation and fascinating topic.
with Lele & MindfulPat today interviewing Pierre, co-founder and CEO of Uloo.me app https://www.uloo.me based on sharing reciprocal motivational energy. In the show we discuss about motivation, hot to get more motivated and how others can give us motivation by sharing their care and experience with us. and in the end, motivating others is indirectly making us happier and more productive, because particularly in the corporate world the more your peers are successful with their goals the more you will be with yours.
with Lele & MindfulPa interview today Stanislas LL talking about Heartfulness that is another of the steps in the practice a way to focus on our hearts and feeling to meditate, reduce our stress, improve our feelings and perceptions and eventually leads us towards better decisions. Stan shares a lot more in the talk and with a wonderful 5mindful minutes in conclusion.
Enjoy the show and welcome to the full world where you can be aware fully of your present mind and heart. Get in touch with Stan https://www.facebook.com/Heartfulness.Bratislava/
Today Lele is interviewing Miska. Miska started her journey into mindfulness through yoga practices. In the show she's sharing some of the practices and how her journey passed from yoga to mindfulness and now she sees them as one whole thing. Enjoy the show!
today MindfulPat is interviewing Fabio Fernandes that share, what he thinks about mindfulness, how he engaged his team to see the world with mindfulness lenses. There are a lot of great hints, so if you miss one while watching, just refocus and take 5 mins to be mindful at the end of the clip ^_^
with Lele & MindfulPat this time with Kal, newcomer into mindfulness, audience of #thepresentshow Kal is sharing what are the first benefits he found into a daily mindfulness practice how he's coping with his daily business routine and what are the best aspects of being mindful the whole time.
with Lele & MindfulPat each and this week with Judyta talking about her path towards meditation and then towards mindfulness@work. How she found peace and calm into a daily practice, how she's leading now multiple times a week a practice group with her colleagues and how she feels to be much more ready to deal with stressful situations now that she brought mindfulness in her everyday. Have fun with this show! Thanks a lot for watching.
with Lele & MindfulPat, guest of today Poonam that is sharing her journey into mindfulness: reading and listening to the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. We talk about several situations where being in the present moment can bring incredible benefits and suddenly even apparently impossible things can happen. Check out the episode and for more about Poonam check out one of the FB community she's part of and her LN profile
with Lele & MindfulPat and German Di Manzo and IBMer in Costa Rica that is sharing his path towards productivity in the office and how he considers mindful communication and a mindful unitasking a very important aspect of our everyday. German is also sharing how he got to know mindfulness and started a daily practice through yoga.
with Lele & MindfulPat and guest of today Patrick telling his story about mindfulness, health, stress, work and how he embraced (and he's happy about it) a daily practice. Enjoy!
with Lele & MindfulPat and our guest of today Michelle having a conversation about waking up in the morning and how good it could be to have a mindful minute to dedicate. Conversation goes on taking a different turn: how Michelle journey with mindfulness started, how to dedicate some time to it during our days. Check more about Michelle here
with Lele & MindfulPat talking about thinking, thinking about thinking. Having a a conversation based on this questions: "are you able to see yourself thinking?" and "Is it a mindful practice?"
with Lele & The Mindful Pat wishing you a mindful new year. We talk about new year resolutions, mindfulness and a great start of 2018 with a big wish to enjoy each of our moments. Happy new year folks! Thanks for watching.
with Lele & The Mindful Pat wishing you happy holidays sharing some thoughts about mindful holidays. Can we be mindful during holidays?
with Lele & MindfulPat and today with Nathan Zeldes
They are talking about information overload, how it's harmful for us and what are the techniques and mindful practices to be free from it. Nathan is a globally recognized thought leader in the search for improved knowledge worker productivity. After a 26 year career as a manager and principal engineer at Intel Corporation, he now helps organizations solve core problems at the intersection of information technology and human behavior.
You can find more about Nathan hear on his website http://www.nathanzeldes.com
with Lele & MindfulPat today with Torild Bruun talking about how to get ready for meetings or coaching sessions, how mindfulness can be helpful to approach our kids and how to do a walking mindful minute.
ith MindfulPat and today with Alex Sandev talking about his beginners journey into mindfulness
with Lele & MindfulPat and today with Terry Frangos talking about his mindfulness journey, how he practices it together with his colleagues and how it's possible to be mindful and a good planner at the same time. More about Terry
Lele & MindfulPat Today with Lutz Marten and Marcus Pietrzak talking about leadership, time management, believing and not believing in mindful practices and lots lots of example about how as folks we can enter in the mindful world. It's a sweet show because it ends just eating candies 🍬 enjoy!
More about Lutz
More about Marcus
with Lele today with Mercedes Escala
Mercedes is IBM director for global recognition and she's sharing her view around recognition why it's important, how to say thank you and how it's all connected with being mindful and aware of the present moment. Her mindful journey started many years ago, hear the story. More about Mercedes here
with Lele & MindfulPat today with Jerome Selva talking about the rich experience of Jerome thorough-out his live.
How such experience is connected with mindfulness, how he discovered these practices and how they are beneficial implemented in an IBM Executive environment. An when it's time for a mindful minute what's the practice that he suggests? A lot to learn from this show.
Checkout Jerome blog here http://www.jsselva.com
with Lele & Prachi today and our gust Chandra an IBM Executive that is sharing his meditation journey, practices and motivations.
There are many benefits in following mindfulness practices and one of this is energy and good leadership. Watch and enjoy!
with Lele & The Mindful Pat with a lovely guest Prachi Rastogi talking about mindful practices, how to deal with emotion and how contagious is to laugh all together
Check more about Prachi here
with Lele & The Mindful Pat with Carrie Lomas talking about mindfulness from a point of view of a corporate executive. How being grounded helps focus, productivity, communication and attention. Why we should give the full attention to everyone that's in front of us. Find more about Carrie here
with Lele and our guest of today Elias Leanos Hernandez that from Guadalajara is sharing best practices and how he's meeting with other folks each week to learn and pay attention all together
with Lele & The Mindful Pat Guest this week Malabika Debnath that is taking us in the world of mindfulness in India from her childhood.
Get in touch with Mala from here
with Lele & The Mindful Pat with Laurence Guihard-Joly.
She says Today it's a good day to start your mindfulness journey, it's a growing momentum and you cannot imagine how a good meditation practice can change your life. Check more about Laurence here
with Lele & The Mindful Pat and our guest this week Sunita Alves check more about her here
with Lele & The Mindful Pat
This week we are talking with Oleh Larchyk about the basics of mindfulness, what's the word about and what the benefits of a good mindful practice.
Check out more about Oleh here http://ibm.biz/olarchyk
with Lele & The Mindful Pat guest of today Estela https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelaque... speaking from Madrid. Check out also her youtube channel
with Lele & The Mindful Pat and Steve Ware as guest of today talking about his experience and journey into mindfulness and the whys to start practicing.
Read more about Steve in his LN profile
with Lele & The Mindful Pat with the special guest Elizabeth Congdon
we discuss about time management and how a mindful practice can help improve it by paying attention to what's around us.
with Lele & The Mindful Pat and guest of today Silvia Gallova coach, learning facilitator, consultant @IBM Here her Linkedin Profile
Today we talk about a fundamental part of mindfulness that is no judgement.
Judging is bringing away from us a significant amount of energy.
Enjoy the show.
with Lele & The Mindful Pat
Talking about the importance of listening and what comes in the middle if you don't pay attention.
Click below to watch the video that MindfulPat is mentioning in the episode about a good listening exercise and make sure to subscribe to his channel https://youtu.be/5RxEARrXeik
with Lele & The Mindful Pat and Tom Shattuck Agile@IBM Leader
Talking about the good benefits mindfulness brings into agile practices.
Lele, MindfulPat and Vicki Flaherty leader of Mindfulness@IBM Community talks about why mindfulness movement is growing today and what benefits it bring to its practioners.
Do we realize we are thinking?
What to do when you are lost in thought but we need to focus on a particular task? How to find back that attention?
Are you paying attention to the sounds around you?
How to practice with it?
Lele&MindfulPat discuss about it in this episode of ThePresentShow
In this episode we describe what's the present show and what's the Mindfulness@IBM Community