The Impactory

Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/07/2014
10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Location
The Impactory

Category(ies)

• Hosted Events

“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?”

- Lao-Tzu, Tao-te-Ching -

 

In a world that is more and more connected, we can feel being less and less connected to ourselves and to those who matter in our families and our communities. In a world that moves faster and faster, we can find ourselves running and spinning, having lost our direction and vision. In a world that changes all the time, we can find ourselves fearful of uncertainty and far from fully experiencing the beauty of renewal in our daily lives.

 

Mindfulness is a natural human quality, a way of paying attention to whatever is arising in one’s life that allows a deeper sense of connection inwardly and outwardly.

 

Mindfulness is also a practice to cultivate specific attitudes such as acceptance, non-judgement, patience, and compassion, while experientially learning the continuous interplay between mind and body. With such clarity and understanding, we learn to take better care of ourselves, mobilizing our own inner resources for coping and growing. We also learn not to escape or avoid what life brings in our present, but we accept and become able to move on with a new understanding, and with less stress and burdening.

 

In this day of silence we are going to explore this innate ability of awareness. We will learn how to develop our focus through breath, body, feelings, thoughts, and the external environment. Through guided practices, we will alternate periods of sitting and movement (mindful walking, qi-gong, yoga). Far from being the scary and discomforting experience it might seem, being in silence for a longer period is reported by most as a deeply refreshing and restoring experience.

 

Mindfulness grows on a 2,500 years old tradition of meditation. Its positive impact is now supported by many decades of academic research. Companies the like of Google, Unilever, The Huffington Post, Patagonia, and entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, use mindfulness practice to improve well-being, communication, creativity, clarity, decision making, leadership.

 

 

This retreat is guided in English, and is held from 10 am to 4,30 pm on Saturday, 5 July 2014. No previous experience is required. If you have any questions, you can contact Maurizio at .

 

 

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Maurizio is a trainer and coach, long-standing mindfulness practitioner and certified teacher, having participated to retreats with John Kabat-Zinn, Saki Santorelly, and Shamash Alidina. After his former experiences in management, both in the private and public sectors, he has devoted various years to academia, researching the effects of trust on individual and organisational performance, gaining two PhDs (Management Engineering, and Economics). All these experiences have convinced him that organisations need a profound change of their focus and practices, starting once again from individuals and their human needs. Nowadays he has the privilege of lecturing and coaching Bachelor and Master students, as well as PhD candidates, at the University of Luxembourg, the Maastricht School of Governance, and the UNU-Merit Maastricht.  As a coach, he supports executives and individuals in the discovery and development of their personal and professional skills and resources. You can see more on his website www.zegtraining.com and blog.zegtraining.com.