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Wellness & Mindfulness

The Importance of Offering Wellness and Mindfulness Training in the Workplace

We know from research that, given how difficult a time it is in our world, many professionals are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and disconnected from the workplace.

In order to both prevent and address these experiences, it’s essential for organizations to provide teams with programming that helps to cultivate professional and personal joy, wellness, and mindfulness.

bci is an expert in developing and delivering training that offers a range of applied practices and tools to help your teams be more present, joyful, and engaged at work.

Why Wellness and Mindfulness Training is Essential for Executive Leaders

Executive leaders also greatly benefit from wellness and mindfulness practices to help them navigate the high demands and stress inherent in their roles. By engaging in this training, leaders learn tools to maintain mental clarity and emotional regulation, enabling them to make better decisions under pressure, understand how they’re judging others, cultivate greater belonging, empathy, and vulnerability with their teams, and be more adaptive, patient, and inclusive.

These skills not only improve a leader’s personal well-being but help support the creation of a more engaged, collaborative, cohesive, and healthy team environment, driving organizational success and cultivating a culture of belonging in the workplace.

Why Choose bci for Wellness & Mindfulness Training

Our Awaken Sessions are targeted experiential wellness training programs designed to help participants explore key wellness practices for unlocking stillness, resilience, non-judgment, and, most importantly, professional joy. 

Our Awaken Sessions offer a sequence of breathwork, chakra work, somatic awareness, and self-reflection practices – to live music! – and pull from the principles of Core Wisdom outlined in Ritu’s bestselling book We’ve Got This (also a winner of numerous awards!) and The Authenticity Principle.

Our Awaken Sessions are excellent for conferences, retreats, and teambuilding events.

Did You Know?

Anchoring to our Core Wisdom helps us cultivate belonging.

Core Wisdom is the knowing you hold within you that helps you to rise above, heal from, and protect from the hurtful things coming your way that strike at your ability to belong. Your Core Wisdom pushes you to tune into and care for your body and mind, interrupt negative self-talk, become more resilient, connect to who you are, stand in your power, create better relationships with others, and so much more.

Using Core Wisdom as a leader can also have a positive impact in the workplace. When you have a more regulated nervous system, feel more mindful, and are better able to track your own thoughts and feelings – this directly impacts the quality of your leadership – you can make better decisions, understand how you’re judging others, be more adaptive with team members, and practice greater empathy. Core Wisdom helps you to understand the power of choice – that we can choose to shift our mindset, behaviors, and actions to live a better life, both professionally and personally.

Core Wisdom Toolkit

Learn more about Core Wisdom, a fundamental pillar for wellness, and how you can utilize this innovative concept to create more personal and professional joy.

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Grow Your Core Wisdom

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Your Core Wisdom Will Make You a More Empathetic Leader and Team Member

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The Magic and Power of Core Wisdom

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10 Questions with
Ritu Bhasin

All of bci’s wellness & mindfulness sessions are offered in-person.

Wellness & Mindfulness Resources

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What is Mindfulness?

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A Must Do for Cultivating Mental Health and Wellness

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Commit to a Self-Care Practice

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We’ve Got This

by Ritu Bhasin

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Dr. Komal Bhasin, MSW, MHSc, DocSocSci

Komal is bci’s Senior DEI Consultant and Mental Health Expert-in-Residence and an accomplished DEI facilitator, coach, and strategist. Komal has over 20 years of experience in providing strategic and advisory guidance and program development across a range of sectors, with a particular concentration in mental health and racial inclusion. Komal is also the founder of Insayva Inc., a social enterprise focused on providing accessible DEI and health equity support to charities and non-profit organizations.

Komal has extensive experience in creating and delivering programming in a range of DEI areas, including unconscious bias, cultural competence, mental health inclusion, psychological safety, and allyship. She is passionate about driving transformational change in workplaces and has worked closely with bci clients – corporations, professional service firms, health care providers, and educational institutions – to embed cultures of DEI within their organizations.

Komal has provided one-on-one inclusion coaching to hundreds of senior leaders and brings a unique approach that is informed by her background as a psychotherapist. Using a trauma-informed lens and somatic approaches, she also has experience guiding leaders and teams in mending relationships, and rebuilding trust where harm has occurred due to inequities, intercultural conflict, value mismatches, exclusion, and psychological or geopolitical safety issues, with the goal of creating a more inclusive, resilient or organizational culture.

Komal also offers a performance coaching program designed specifically for BIPOC leaders. This program aims to help BIPOC leaders harness their place, position, and identity to thrive in the workplace and beyond. Komal is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

As bci’s Mental Health Expert-in-Residence, Komal offers tremendous expertise around workplace mental health. As a doctoral trained mental health clinician, certified health executive, and registered social worker, Komal has assisted organizations looking to advance employee mental health inclusion and well-being through offering programming on inclusive dialogue, anti-stigma, burnout prevention, psychological safety, resilience, and self-care. Komal is committed to advancing mental health and wellness across the life course; she currently serves on the board of the Alzheimer’s Society of Ontario and previously served on the board of Children’s Mental Health Ontario and the YMCA of Greater Toronto.

When Komal is not working, you’ll find her painting, cooking or snuggling with her cat.