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DIALOGUE: Najat Kaanache
DIALOGUE: Najat Kaanache
The pilgrim chef on the marriage between Moroccan culinary traditions and global gastronomy, the comfort of a chakcouka, and a wish to cook for Oprah.
Sudha G Tilak
Q&A with Charmaine O’ Brien
Q&A with Charmaine O’ Brien
A food historian on India's rise as an evolving culinary superpower.
Sudha G Tilak
Sports  Nutrition: Peak Performance
Sports Nutrition: Peak Performance
Nutrition is key for athletes for training, stamina and recovery.
Sudha G Tilak
Try This Beginner Visualization
Try This Beginner Visualization
Adding visualizations to a regular meditation practice can have powerful effects on wellbeing. Here’s how to supercharge your meditations with visualizations.
Lindsay Tucker
Mindfulness for the Classroom
Mindfulness for the Classroom
Try these simple, effective tools for a focused classroom with engaged students.
Madeleine Somerville
Q&A with Rodney Dunn
Q&A with Rodney Dunn
Tasmanian chef on connecting to earth, sharing food, and the herb lovage.
Sudha G Tilak
Is Mindfulness a Leadership Trait?
Is Mindfulness a Leadership Trait?
It’s through conscious awareness that we can begin to develop empathy, benefiting both leaders and employees alike.
Amy Pennington
Find Focus With Meditation
Find Focus With Meditation
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will allow you to make lifestyle adjustments needed to stay productive.
Jerusha Kamoji
Rebecca Acabchuk, Ph.D.
Find Your Natural Energy Source
Find Your Natural Energy Source
While everyone has a unique personal rhythm, many may benefit from a midday rest period when feeling fatigued.
Amy Pennington
Optimize Your Morning Routine
Optimize Your Morning Routine
With tons of books, podcasts, and articles promising to reinvent your morning, know which routine is right for you.
Lindsay Tucker
Why Are People Switching Jobs During Uncertain Times?
Why Are People Switching Jobs During Uncertain Times?
Companies need to start looking at employees as “whole beings” instead of mere productive resources if they want to retain their best talent.
Prakriti Bhat
Hit Refresh: Learn to Tackle Your Creative Blocks
Hit Refresh: Learn to Tackle Your Creative Blocks
Use your ingenuity to empower yourself and find new ways to recharge your creative self.
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
Moving On From Failure: What Every Entrepreneur Must Know
Moving On From Failure: What Every Entrepreneur Must Know
Failure is not you — it’s just an episode in your life. Listen to your inner voice, follow your courage, and act with conviction even when the going gets tough.
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
Six Ways to Set Up a Clean Workstation
Six Ways to Set Up a Clean Workstation
Learn how to keep your desk clean and organized by managing cables, optimizing storage, and creating segments for different tasks.
Prakriti Bhat
A Guiding Light: The Role of Mentorship
A Guiding Light: The Role of Mentorship
Having a mentor is not just about career success, it's also about having emotional and mental support at work.
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
Five Things I Would Tell My Younger Self
Five Things I Would Tell My Younger Self
You need more than a relentless drive, laser-like focus, and long working hours to succeed in life.
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
Wellbeing Programs Your Employees Need, But Don’t Ask For
Wellbeing Programs Your Employees Need, But Don’t Ask For
The ideal employee wellbeing program must include doctor consultations, lifestyle disease management, stress management and one-on-one counselling sessions.
Prakriti Bhat
Best Ways to Give Feedback to Your Employees
Best Ways to Give Feedback to Your Employees
The best way to provide feedback to your employees is by being constructive, listening to them, gauging their reaction and asking for their feedback as well.
Prakriti Bhat
6 Questions Great Leaders Ask Employees
6 Questions Great Leaders Ask Employees
Caring managers not only look after their employees’ best interests, but also learn something from them.
Prakriti Bhat
Destigmatizing Mental Health at Work
Destigmatizing Mental Health at Work
The Roundglass Wellbeing at Work Survey 2019-20 suggests a majority of organizations are not doing enough to promote mental wellbeing at work. Here’s how your organization can destigmatize mental wellbeing.
Prakriti Bhat
Is Presenteeism Harming Productivity?
Is Presenteeism Harming Productivity?
A workplace that treats employees like individuals with emotions, rather than a productivity tool, will have greater success because they are putting the individual first.
Prakriti Bhat
Dealing with Imposter Syndrome at Work
Dealing with Imposter Syndrome at Work
Imposter syndrome makes employees feel inadequate despite evident success. By discussing it with your employees, applauding their achievements and creating a positive environment, you can deal with imposter syndrome at work successfully.
Prakriti Bhat
Happiness Quotient Boosts Employee Productivity
Happiness Quotient Boosts Employee Productivity
Happy employees are the most productive. By taking small steps to create workplace happiness, conflicts can be prevented and absenteeism reduced. This can lead to increased engagement and output.
Prakriti Bhat
Impact of Physical Workspaces on Workplace Wellbeing
Impact of Physical Workspaces on Workplace Wellbeing
It’s important to create a workspace that’s well-ventilated, has ample natural light, spacious, offers fun zones to unwind and reflects the company culture.
Prakriti Bhat
Creating a Healthy Virtual Work Culture
Creating a Healthy Virtual Work Culture
Have you evaluated your company’s virtual work culture? Here are the things you should be focusing on.
Prakriti Bhat
Hybrid Workplace Model — Good or Bad For Work Culture?
Hybrid Workplace Model — Good or Bad For Work Culture?
We are trying to decode the new hybrid workplace in the best way possible — a list of its pros and cons!
Prakriti Bhat
Successful Virtual Teams Stay Socially Connected
Successful Virtual Teams Stay Socially Connected
Virtual teams are here to stay in the midst of this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how a successful virtual team stays socially connected.
Prakriti Bhat
Don’t Set SMART Goals, Set Big Ones
Don’t Set SMART Goals, Set Big Ones
By choosing a goal that's bigger than yourself, you're acknowledging that you don't have all the answers.
Palma Michel
New Beginnings in the Workplace
New Beginnings in the Workplace
How can holacracy improve our Professional Wellbeing?
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
Expand Your Practice: Doshas
Expand Your Practice: Doshas
A central theme of the practice is to create a balanced lifestyle that supports energy flow in the body for wholistic health.
Sharon Fernandes
Rebecca Acabchuk, Ph.D.
Why your Company Needs a Robust Wholistic Wellbeing Plan
Why your Company Needs a Robust Wholistic Wellbeing Plan
Redefining workplace needs in the post-pandemic workplace
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
Team Sports Can Help You Be a Good Leader
Team Sports Can Help You Be a Good Leader
Participating in a team sport can help you improve your emotional and professional wellbeing.
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
Mindful Listening can Help you Level Up at Work
Mindful Listening can Help you Level Up at Work
Clear communication is an essential aspect of workplace wellbeing. But it's not all about talking
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
The Creative Vitality of Our Lives
The Creative Vitality of Our Lives
A key component of meditation, creativity is about letting go, feeling free, and connecting to your deeper self.
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
How can we enrich our financial wellbeing by slowing down?
How can we enrich our financial wellbeing by slowing down?
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
Excellence V Perfectionism
Excellence V Perfectionism
How can we encourage employee excellence without pressuring perfectionism?
Sunny Gurpreet Singh
Why Businesses should Embrace Corporate Wellbeing
Why Businesses should Embrace Corporate Wellbeing
Magnetism: The Key to Success and Wellbeing
Magnetism: The Key to Success and Wellbeing
When our willpower is bound heavily by habit, it ceases to draw upon inspiration. Here's how to change that.
Dr. Aditya Gait
Understanding Your Fear of Failure
Understanding Your Fear of Failure
If we want grow in the way that I think we are meant to in our journeys — we have to look right at that fear and deal with it.
Yael Shy
Try This Mantra to Honor the Sun
Try This Mantra to Honor the Sun
Chanting Gayatri Mantra regularly may assist in promoting better memory and concentration, while bringing peace.
Sowmya Raoh
You Are More Creative Than You Think
You Are More Creative Than You Think
Creativity can be perceived as your unique style and imprint on everything you do.
Kate Savage
Use Kundalini To Deepen Intuition
Use Kundalini To Deepen Intuition
I was always aware of my intuition, but I did not always have the wherewithal to act on it before practicing Kundalini yoga.
Kasandra Jewall
5 Steps to Change Any Habit
5 Steps to Change Any Habit
To change our lives, we need to analyze the behaviors we don’t like and think of different ways to act.
Lama Yeshe
4 Ways to Build A Resilient Mind
4 Ways to Build A Resilient Mind
If you want to live a fruitful life, you need to create resilience by focusing on purpose, persistence, sensitivity, and analysis.
Lama Yeshe
Michael Jordan And Mindfulness
Michael Jordan And Mindfulness
While this is popular among athletes now, it wasn’t as widely known in the 1990s.
Curtis Smith
Mindfulness Belongs in Schools
Mindfulness Belongs in Schools
The students learned to be better citizens and I learned to be a better educator.
Curtis Smith
How Meditating Connects My Path
How Meditating Connects My Path
You're not looking to other people to please you because you know what you want, and you can express it.
Buathon Thienarrom, Ph.D
I Hated Meditating Until It Worked
I Hated Meditating Until It Worked
After 22 challenging years of life, I was desperate for some solution. And then, Tibetan Buddhism began to work.
Rachel Webb
How Meditation Supported My Ph.D
How Meditation Supported My Ph.D
It took a long time to recover my mental health after getting my degree, and meditation was the one thing that stayed.
Christine Lustik PhD
How to Mindfully Work from Home
How to Mindfully Work from Home
If we allow ourselves the luxury of having a lie-in on workdays, we'll develop a bad habit.
Lama Yeshe
10 Ways to Be Mindful at Work
10 Ways to Be Mindful at Work
These simple practices may help you release any work-related stress and remain focused, motivated, and inspired during your workday.
Lama Yeshe