Mindfulness in Organisations

The Mindful Organization: Myth or Living Reality

Kai Romhardt and Markus Plischke, Mindful Business Series, Nr. 2, 2020, Berlin 

From the Introduction

For over 2500 years the training of mindfulness has been regarded as the essential prerequisite for cultivating compassion, inner freedom, ethical inter- actions and deeper insights in Buddhism . Mindfulness is seen as the royal state of mind. During the last several years mindfulness training has been discovered by ever-widening circles in the West. More and more companies and organizations use mindfulness to combat stress, as a means for self-management, improved communication or as a management tool. The question has been heard, how we can create “mindful organizations”.

This article will show developments in the subject area, define central concepts and insights by the expert group “Mindful Organization” which is part of the Network for Mindful Business, as well as multiple impressions collected by the authors (Romhardt – dharma teacher; Plischke, Romhardt – organization consultants). This is an invitation to dedicate some time to practice mindfulness and start an individual as well as a collective journey of discovery towards a new understanding of organizational actions.