Improving mindfulness is about understanding yourself and being “in the moment”. Participants will become more mindful of their actions and learn how to express and interpret their present environment. They will create positive connections and increase their self-regulation of attention and personal experiences. Improving Mindfulness will provide benefits throughout their professional and personal lives. Improving mindfulness through gratitude, filtering, and active listening will give participants the advantage of seeing things in a new light. This course has the ability to give participants an increased recognition of mental events in the present moment which provides countless benefits. Completing this course will confer 2 CPD Credits towards internationally recognised Continuous Professional Development Requirements within organisations operating this kind of staff development methodology. Course Outline Module One: Getting Started Module Two: What is Mindfulness? Buddhist Concept Bare Attention Memory Psychological Concept Case Study Module Two: Review Questions Module Three: Practicing Mindfulness Mindfulness Meditation Attention Acceptance Scanning Case Study Module Three: Review Questions Module Four: Emotional IQ Purpose of Emotions Performance Emotions Swing Emotions Blue emotions Case Study Module Four: Review Questions Module Five: Cognitive Distortion I Dichotomous Reasoning Magnification and Minimization Filtering (Including Disqualifying) Jumping to Conclusions Case Study Module Five: Review Questions Module Six: Cognitive Distortion II Destructive Labelling Personalizing Blaming The Tyranny of the Should Case Study Module Six: Review Questions Module Seven: What is the Self? The Physical Self The Emotional Self The Psychological Self The Spiritual Self Case Study Module Two: Review Questions Module Eight: Awareness of the Physical Self Scanning Progressive Relaxation Physical Stressors Exercise Case Study Module Three: Review Questions Module Nine: Time Management Organization Goal Management Priorities Procrastination Case Study Module Four: Review Questions Module Ten: The Emotional Self Validity of Emotions Utility of Emotions Arousal Valence Case Study Module Five: Review Questions Module Eleven: Mood Management Emotional Intelligence Categories of Emotions Increasing Arousal Decreasing Arousal Case Study Module Six: Review Questions Module Twelve: Wrapping Up Words from the Wise