Event Details
April Chapter Meeting - Mindfulness: From Stress and Burnout to Personal and Organizational Thriving
When: Tuesday, April 9th, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Where: Founder's Union, UofL ShelbyHurst Campus, 450 N. Whittington Ave., Louisville, KY 40222
Program Details
Mindfulness has gotten a great deal of attention lately in the business world for the role it can play in improving employee well-being and organizational effectiveness: reducing stress, anxiety, burnout, and emotional reactivity, while increasing focus, time
management skills, emotional intelligence, and compassion. In this workshop, Kyle
Kramer, CEO of the Earth & Spirit Center and founder of the Institute for Applied
Mindfulness, will introduce participants to mindfulness, the benefits it can bring to
individual employees and to organizational life and leadership (including to the bottom
line), and how it can be woven into organizational culture and workflows.
Participants will:
1. Learn a basic definition of mindfulness and gain an understanding of its history;
2. Learn about the array of personal and organizational benefits that mindfulness
can bring, such as improved mental health, more effective teamwork and
collaboration, greater clarity of personal and organizational purpose and values,
and greater emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-regulation, and compassion.
3. Experience a brief guided mindfulness meditation;
4. Learn two simple mindfulness practices that they can use at home and at work;
5. Be introduced to a few basic strategies for incorporating mindfulness into their
workplaces;
6. Learn about the services of the Institute for Applied Mindfulness, which can
provide additional resources and guidance for creating a more mindful
workplace.
Speaker Info
Kyle Kramer is the CEO of the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center (www.earthandspiritcenter.org) in Louisville, KY, a nonprofit offering interfaith educational programming in mindfulness meditation, ecology, and social compassion – and the largest provider of mindfulness instruction in the Central US. He is also the founding director of the Institute for Applied Mindfulness, an Earth & Spirit Center initiative that brings mindfulness to nonprofit, for-profit, educational, and governmental organizations.
Educated at Indiana University, the Universität Hamburg (Germany), and Emory University, he is the former director of graduate theology programs and spiritual formation for Saint Meinrad, a Benedictine monastery and Roman Catholic school of theology. Kyle is the author of A Time to Plant: Life Lessons in Work, Prayer, and Dirt (Ave Maria Press, 2010) and Making Room: Soul-Deep Satisfaction Through Simplicity (Franciscan Media, 2021). He is a former columnist and essayist for America magazine, a current columnist for Franciscan Media’s St. Anthony Messenger magazine, and the host of the Earth & Spirit Podcast on National Public Radio. He speaks across the country about the intersection of ecology, community, and contemplative spirituality.
A mindfulness meditator for over thirty years, he also teaches courses and workshops at the Earth & Spirit Center and Institute for Applied Mindfulness on the application of mindfulness in the workplace. In his spare time, Kyle enjoys gardening, hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, and making music.
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