Mindfulness is a known strategy to lower stress, improve sleep, lower blood pressure, and provide other health benefits. Mindfulness also has organizational benefits such as improved cognitive performance, decreased burnout, increased job satisfaction, and improved trust. Although the National Business Group on Health and Fidelity found that 52% of companies offer mindfulness training, the vast majority offer this as an individual benefit. Offering a resource is good, and adoption of a desired behavior is better. When organizational culture shares a behavior, it’s likely to be adopted by a greater number of employees. That is the power of norms.
Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) started an intentional effort to make mindfulness part of the workplace culture in 2020, and have since seen adoption that indicates efforts are taking hold.
In this session, participants will learn the benefits of mindfulness to companies and organizations. Participants will also learn how JHM is integrating mindfulness into workplace culture beyond offering the benefit of free access to a mindfulness app. More specifically, speakers will demonstrate how they’ve leveraged the following elements:
• Norms
• Peer Support
• Leadership Engagement
• Culture Connection Points
Participants will receive a worksheet to prompt thoughts on how something similar can be achieved within their organization.
Learning Objectives
After completing this session, participants will be able to:
1. List three benefits for organizations that integrate mindfulness into their workplace culture (the business case).
2. Define the six well-being culture building blocks.
3. Give an example of how to integrate mindfulness into the workplace culture for four of the well-being culture building blocks. 1 CECH Available