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"Creating a Flourishing Organisation requires the development of individual mindsets characterised by long-term horizons, expanded definition Self (self-transcendence), cooperativeness and fairness in pursuing self-interest (e.g.refraining from manipulating for your own purpose)."

Key insights from over 15 years of research

can be summarized as follows:

Creating a Flourishing Organisation requires the development of individual mindsets characterised by long-term horizons, expanded definition Self (self-transcendence), cooperativeness and fairness in pursuing self-interest (e.g.refraining from manipulating others for your own purpose).

Sustainable thinking beyond self interest

A sustainability mindset can be developed through innovative learning processes based on deep meditative practice embedded in management training programmes. This brain plasticity effect has been shown to occur with relatively short learning programmes (e.g. 16 hours over 4 weeks).

Mindset change
in 4 weeks

Deep meditative practices influence the physical development of our brain structure in specific areas responsible for fair, collaborative, long-term oriented decisions and behaviours as well as coping with occupational stress and several other psycho-somatic maladies.

Increased neural density of the brain

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Neuroscience

The experience of mental silence meditation is connected with high levels of pleasure and with the rebalancing of emotional and cognitive processes.

Increased grey matter associated with long-term meditation

Hernandez, S.E., Suero, J., Barros, A., Gonzalez-Mora, J.L., Rubia, K., "Increased grey matter associated with long-term meditation: A Voxel-Based- Morphometry study." PLOS ONE 11(3) (2016): e0150757

Functional Health and Quality of Life in Long Term Meditators

Manocha R, Black D, Wilson L Functional Health and Quality of Life in Long Term Meditators, Evidence-Based Complementary Medicine, Evidence-Based Complementary Medicine.

Human anterior and frontal midline theta and lower alpha reflect emotionally positive state and internalized attention

Aftanas, L., & Golosheykin, S. Human anterior and frontal midline theta and lower alpha reflect emotionally positive state and internalized attention: high-resolution EEG investigation of meditation. Neuroscience Letters 2001 Sep 7;310(1):57-60.

Medical Science

Practitioners of mental silence meditation experience significantly lower levels of stress and enhanced mental and physical well-being compared to best available practices

Meditation in the management of moderate to severe asthma

Manocha, R., Marks, G. B., Kenchington, P., Peters, D., & Salome, C. M. (2002). Meditation in the management of moderate to severe asthma: a randomized controlled trial. Thorax, 57(2), 110–115.

Meditation as a Family Treatment Programme for Children with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder

Harrison, L. J., Manocha, R., & Rubia, K. (2004). Meditation as a Family Treatment Programme for Children with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 2004; 9(4):479–497.

A pilot study of a mental silence form of meditation for perimenopausal women

Manocha R, Semmar B, Black D. A pilot study of a mental silence form of meditation for perimenopausal women. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. 2007; 14(3):266–273.

Management

Managers exposed to meditation training show significant changes in their values system, emotional balance and decision making patterns towards responsible behaviour and higher levels of social consciousness.

Towards an internal change management perspective of CSR: Evidence from project RESPONSE on the sources of cognitive alignment between managers and their stakeholders, and their implications for social performance.

Zollo, M., Minoja, M., Casanova, L., Hockerts, K., Neergaard, P., Schneider, S., Tencati, A., “Towards an internal change management perspective of CSR: Evidence from project RESPONSE on the sources of cognitive alignment between managers and their stakeholders, and their implications for social performance.”, Corporate Governance, September 2009.

Developing socially responsible behavior in managers: Experimental evidence on the effectiveness of different approaches to management education.

Schneider, S., Zollo, M., Manocha, R., “Developing socially responsible behavior in managers: Experimental evidence on the effectiveness of different approaches to management education.”, Journal of Corporate Citizenship 39, September 2010.

The psychological antecedents to socially responsible behavior.

Crilly, D., Schneider, S., Zollo, M., “The psychological antecedents to socially responsible behavior.”, European Management Review 5(3), August 2008.

Deliberate learning and the evolution of dynamic capabilities

Zollo, M., Winter, S., “Deliberate learning and the evolution of dynamic capabilities”, Organizational Science 13(3) (2002): 339-351.