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We Have Achieved Stress-Reduction Outcomes For:
Citi
Square
Square Space
New York City Public Schools (MS 245)
Open Society Foundations
​Harlem Hospital
Unity Wellness
Milken Scholars Program
Ronald McDonald House
Genesee Valley School District
Erie BOCES (E2CCB)
​Georgetown University
​Chegg
​Brave Crate
Connecticut Department of Education
Hejnas Fitness
Cassadaga County Public Schools
Learning Forward
​George Jackson Academy
​Therapeutic Humor Association
​mindSpark Learning
Health Care Chaplaincy Network
The American Dairy Association
​Ridgewood Public Schools
Mercy College

Case Studies

Education
mindSpark Learning

Health
Harlem Hospital Center

Corporate
Square Space

Education: mindSpark Learning

The Challenge

mindSpark Learning is a professional development organization for teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, and other school staff. These school leaders are riddled with stress. Between the demands of supervisors, parents and students (not to mention lunch duty) they have their work cut out for them.

​Other sources of stress that they identified included:
 - Catering to multiple students with an assortment of behavioral and academic issues
 - Standardized tests and common core regulations
 - The demands of parents
 - Non-stop work environment
 - Difficulties managing work-life balance
 - Lesson planning, grading, and professional evaluations

Our Response

To support school leaders who attended mindSpark PD sessions, Personalized Mindfulness presenters led multiple hour-long sessions on topics and keynotes such as: "Mindfulness 101: Becoming The Eye of the Storm."

The following sessions are being planned for future dates:
 - Improving School Culture: The Power of Mindful Communication 
 - Attention Over Detention: Transforming Detention
 - Mindful Test-Taking Skills
 - Practical Solutions for Mindful Classroom Management 
 - Playing Attention: Teaching Students Fun Approaches to Mindfulness 
 - Mindfulness & Bullying Reduction 
 - Building Mindfulness into K-12 Curricula, Including STEM

Other mindfulness supports under consideration include the creation, integration, and launch of the following:
 - Central mindfulness internal website: A hub for information sharing, webinar access, etc.
 - Templates for including mindfulness engagement into professional evaluations
 - Ongoing refresher courses, mentoring, and programs about different aspects of mindfulness
 - Weekly surveys
 - Integration into other professional development activities and meetings
 - Mindfulness groups that meet during lunch and/or after work
 - Regular check-ins, progress monitoring, and coaching

Outcome

“It’s rare that you come across talent like Nick Mosca [Personalized Mindfulness Presenter]. Nick has embraced teachers and the ever so pressing need for an understanding of mindfulness, both for them professionally and as a heart of their classroom practice. Nick has conceptualized a way to support teachers in creating and implementing personalized mindfulness to meet the needs of all students. Delivered with soul, humor, and expertise, Nick's delivery and learning supports are second to none.”
 - Mary Lisa H., Senior Learning Specialist, mindSpark Learning

Health: Harlem Hospital Center

The Challenge

Physicians and nurses reported heightened levels of stress, especially in addition to their supervisory roles. The sources of stress that they identified included:
 - Recurring patient illness
 - Life and death decision-making 
 - Difficulties managing work-life balance
 - Long hours
 - Serving as resident supervisors
 - Dealing with anxious patient family members
​ - Health insurance claims

Our Response

To support the Harlem Hospital Center staff and address these challenges, Personalized Mindfulness led a 'lunch and learn' session about mindfulness for health care practitioners.

The following sessions are being planned for future dates:
 - Mindful Communication Towards Patients & Co-Workers
 - Mindfulness for Senior Leadership
 - Mindfulness for New Residents
 - Gain More Hours in the Day: Mindful Time Management Techniques
 - Mindful Creativity and Decision-Making Under Pressure
 - Playing Attention: Fun Approaches To Mindfulness For Medical Professionals

Other mindfulness supports under consideration include the creation, integration, and launch of the following:
 - Central mindfulness internal website: A hub for information sharing, webinar access, etc.
 - Templates for including mindfulness engagement into professional evaluations
 - Ongoing refresher courses, mentoring, and programs about different aspects of mindfulness
 - Weekly surveys
 - Integration into other professional development activities and meetings
 - Mindfulness groups that meet during lunch and/or after work
 - Regular check-ins, progress monitoring, and coaching

Outcome

“Thank you so much for taking time out to teach us about mindfulness. I found myself looking forward to red lights since your talk. Those few minutes are actually suddenly relaxing. I was wondering if you could share the storm analogy with us. I was thinking of using it when I find myself very anxious or work with patients who are overwhelmed. I think it would help tremendously. Thank you for sharing a life changing technique.”
-Kavita S., 4th Year Psychiatry Resident, Harlem Hospital Center

Corporate: Square Space

The Challenge

Square Space is a website platform company. Its programmers, customer service technicians, and technical writers reported elevated levels of stress. The sources of stress that they identified included:
 - Client-facing anxiety and demands
 - Fast-paced work environment with small margins of error
 - Highly technical and complex content
 - Non-stop work environment
 - Difficulties managing work-life balance
 - Project management
 - Professional evaluations

Our Response

To support Square Space staff and address these challenges, Personalized Mindfulness presenters led an hour-long session about the power of mindfulness in stressful corporate environments. The following sessions are being planned for future dates:
 - Mindful Communication Towards Customers & Co-Workers
 - Mindfulness for Senior Leadership
 - Mindfulness for New Employees
 - Gain More Hours in the Day: Mindful Time Management Techniques
 - Mindful Creativity and Decision-Making Under Pressure
 - Playing Attention: Fun Approaches To Mindfulness For Square Space Engineers and Staff

​Other mindfulness supports under consideration include the creation, integration, and launch of the following:
 - Central mindfulness internal website: A hub for information sharing, webinar access, etc.
 - Templates for including mindfulness engagement into professional evaluations
 - Ongoing refresher courses, mentoring, and programs about different aspects of mindfulness
 - Weekly surveys
 - Integration into other professional development activities and meetings
 - Mindfulness groups that meet during lunch and/or after work
 - Regular check-ins, progress monitoring, and coaching

Outcome

“I'd like to share how you played a role in my own mindfulness journey. I've had a dog for two years, but only recently I've been applying directed mindfulness to my walk with my dog. Through your questionnaire I reaffirmed that this is a powerful practice for me. In one of those coincidences that shapes us when we're open to it, a coworker had a puppy in need of walking at the edge of the auditorium after your talk, and having meditated on your talk I was in the mood for more mindfulness, so I took the puppy for a walk...Thank you for your talk, that minute of meditation and your questionnaire set me on the right path for discovery of myself and the world around me. It's important to show gratitude to those who help us along the path, and so you have mine.”
-Ryan S., Software Engineer, Square Space

"Our personalized mindfulness presenter inspired a sense of hope."
- Kevin McCormack, Co-Host
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