Full course description
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Time: 11 am–12 pm PST
Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan are welcome to attend.
Location: Zoom. (Once you’ve registered, you will be directed to the course Canvas page where you can find the Zoom link.)
About this workshop:
Mindfulness is everywhere. But how do we separate the noise from the worthwhile signals – particularly in a highly competitive teaching and research institution like UBC? How can mindfulness improve performance in your workplace?
This workshop provides a research-based, mindfulness approach to navigating volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous at work. Participants will learn about the default mode of the brain and how stress can bias our attention, before the focus shifts to mindfulness concepts and the science behind the practice.
Once armed with the foundations of mindfulness we will put our understanding into action, and experience mindfulness practices and several short mental techniques that support the underlying facets of attentional control and emotion regulation. Participants will also be introduced to the performance equation and find out how to perform under pressure.
This will prepare participants to engage in more reflection and dialogue, as Dr. Choi shares new and adaptive ways to experience discomfort and their overall humanity.
Important notes:
- The session will be recorded and the slides will be shared.
- There will be an optional breakout room activity in a small group.
- Closed captioning can be enabled.
About your facilitator:
Dr. Ellen Choi is an Assistant Professor in Human Resources Management and Organizational Behaviour in the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).
Dr. Choi is an organizational psychologist with training in the fields of Social Psychology and Organizational Behaviour. She received her PhD from the Ivey School of Business in 2017, and her MSc from the London School of Economics in 2012. Her research interests revolve around workplace wellbeing and mental health. In particular she studies the effects of mindfulness training on stress, attention, emotion regulation, errors, authenticity, resilience, and performance under pressure.
Dr. Choi teaches in the area of organizational behaviour on topics such as leadership, training and development, motivation, and decision-making. Prior to graduate school, Ellen traded in commercial real estate for 8 years with CBRE. She is also a yoga instructor and executive meditation coach.