the innovation of diverse teams
Purpose
Strengthening wellness, equity, and belonging for individuals and teams through powerful mindful leadership and team development experiences
FOR INDIVIDUALS
The Vehicle:
Mindfulness skills development to reduce stress, strengthen relationships, and interrupt Us-vs-Them mindsets to create conditions for collective wellness
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Mindful Moments with Nathan Baptiste
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
The Vehicle:
Transformative leadership and team development experiences grounded in principles of mindfulness and intentionally building a culture of wellness, equity and belonging.
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EDI Mindfulness Consulting LLC is a registered small business vendor.
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What are the benefits of racial equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging?
Although it is not always recognized, racial equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging are essential in strategic planning in organizations to enhance culture, management, and decision-making at every level
Services
Mindfulness Training
Cultivate calm, compassion, and concentration with accessible mindfulness tools that support self-awareness, self-regulation of your nervous system, and bias intervention.
Racial Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Training
Help your teams develop key competencies for organizational equity, build trust and connection within your workplace, and better serve communities.
Leadership & Team Development
Develop leadership and team skills for personal and structural change to strengthen shared purpose, collective wellness and belonging.
Engaging with Mindfulness
Mindfulness offers an essential skillset for individual and collective wellness. It generates the calm, clarity, and compassion needed to be fully present, connected, and responsive instead of stressed out and reactive, which is a factor for bias in the workplace.
Practicing mindfulness for equity and belonging involves paying attention to the impacts of our actions with non-judgmental observation of the flow of internal and external stimuli, and learning ways to pause and expand perspective-taking. In workshops with Nathan, practical mindfulness exercises are introduced to help participants pay attention inward and ground themselves to stay open.
There are many techniques used to develop mindfulness. The term “mindfulness” is a translation of the word “sati” in the Pali language that dates back to around 5 B.C. from the Indian subcontinent. It is an ancient practice for the development of awareness and serenity. It can be practiced with meditations as well as daily life activities, and it has roots in Buddhist and Yogic traditions.
Consulting Alignment
People and organizations aligned with the work of EDI Mindfulness share a few foundational understandings:
- Inside-Out: Leadership advancing collective wellness, equity and belonging expands from self to systems, grounded in core values and shared vision. Systems influence people, but people make – and change – the systems
- Agency: We all have positions of power to make an impact. Leadership is practiced from where you are
- Interdependence: Our purpose is larger than simply benefiting ourselves, recognizing we are at once locally and globally interconnected and interdependent, and therefore our actions -or inactions- have important consequences for our collective wellbeing
- Impact: Success is oriented by accounting for impact