MOBIUS CARES A SEMINAR SERIES

Conducted in the spring of 2020

Exceptional times call for exceptional support. Mobius recommends the following offerings to advance our collective and individual capacities to rise to what is demanded of leaders, change practitioners, and each of us as individuals to come through this crisis into newly imagined futures.

In this 90-minute Mobius Cares session, Alexander Caillet, CEO of Corentus, a pioneer in the field of team coaching, and Mobius Senior Expert, will introduce you to a simple, practical and powerful set of ideas and tools that will equip you to work with the concept of State of Mind with teams.

The current crisis is creating a whole new normal. It will separate those organizations that will shape its future and those left behind. Join Gabor George Burt – originator of The Slingshot Framework, top Blue Ocean Strategy expert, global authority on creative business transformation and re-imagining market boundaries and learn how to be among the future-shapers.

Here you can access resources to help you use One Moment Meditation with anxiety … and stop the stresscalation:

One Moment Meditation in Anxious Times (webinar with Martin Boroson). Recorded live on Apr 1, 2020 03:29 PM and available for viewing until June 30, 2020.

The One Moment Meditation Mobile App (free)

One Moment Meditation Email Tips and Reminders

Access to articles on stress as contagious "Stop the Stresscalation" and "Is stress contagious?"

Join Martin Boroson, author of One Moment Meditation, Founder of the One Moment Company, and a Mobius Transformational Faculty Member for a webinar that offers you a way to reframe the current crisis, or any difficult experience, to find the seeds of potential that are always here, right now. Being truly present in the moment is vital for healing and resilience, gives birth to creativity, and is invaluable to leadership, but it’s not always easy.

In this webinar, Dr. Srini Pillay, Harvard-trained psychiatrist, brain scientist, leadership development expert and invited member of a US think tank on disasters, trauma and global mental health, will explain how the brain is in fact wired to navigate this complexity, and how we can institute specific cognitive practices to enable ourselves to engage a deeper level of consciousness in the pandemic era. Dr. Pillay is the Founder of NeuroBusiness Group, Author of Life Unlocked: Your Brain and Business and Tinker Dabble Doodle Try and Mobius Senior Expert.

At a time when most of the world is experiencing intense resource and mobility constraints, it helps to understand where our leverage for guiding change lies in three dimensions. Tune in to our latest Seminar to find out more from David Stroh and Marilyn Paul. David is a Mobius Senior Expert and author of Systems Thinking for Social Change and Marilyn Paul, a close Mobius Friend, is the author of An Oasis in Time.

The world is panicking and our leaders are stressed, and yet we need emergent, innovative thinking now more than ever – how can we best support them through these challenging times?

In this conversation with leadership coach Jennifer Cohen we dive into the nature of shock responses, how to help stressed leaders reorient towards possibility, development beyond “self” and redefining what service means.

Join Anne Gottlieb, actor, writer, and Director of Mobius's Presence Practice in this highly experiential, somatic workshop. Anne will guide us into the dimensions that hold our sense of support, interconnectedness, wisdom, intuition, beauty and imagination. These embodied practices allow us to access tremendous generativity as leaders during this transitional time.

In ordinary times it takes focus and discipline to meet the world with the best of who we are. When the world around us falls apart, we need even more conviction to live and lead using the full range of our inner intelligences. Reflect on your own Hero's Journey with Erica Ariel Fox, Author of "Winning from Within", Mobius Chief Thought Leader and Mobius Co-Founder.

Explore the first step in designing from the possible, not from the predictable. This is an embodied process. We must practice that which we can become by discerning the new organizing principle around which we center ourselves. Jennifer Cohen is the Co-Founder of Seven Stones Leadership, a Somatic Expert and a Mobius Transformational Faculty member.

Visit whether complexity thinking can help us make sense of what we are living in ways that open new, liberating possibilities with Zafer Achi, a McKinsey & Company, Director Emeritus and Mobius Senior Expert.

Learn about relational mindfulness with Terry Real, Founder Relational Life Institute, world-renowned therapist, Mobius Senior Expert

What is the background to the current global crisis situation with the #coronavirus #pandemic? What do we need now and what are the prospects? What role does collective trauma and absencing play? In contrast, attention and awareness is the real super power today.

Meditation can be of tremendous help during times like this. Practicing meditation has been shown to reduce anxiety, calm the amygdala, increase our ability to think creatively and empathetically take other people’s perspective. In Matthias Birk's work with executives he has observed three practices that help in times of crisis. Read on to find out more.

During the global pandemic, a palpable sense of collective grief has emerged. Grief expert David Kessler says that grief is actually multiple feelings that we must manage. In an interview with HBR, he explains how the classic five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, sadness, acceptance) apply today, and the practical steps we can take to manage the anxiety. Those include balancing bad thoughts with good; focusing on the present; letting go of things you can’t control; and stocking up on compassion. Kessler also talks about a sixth stage of grief: meaning. After acceptance, he says, we will find meaning in the hard-to-fathom events and we will be stronger for it.

“The most powerful force we have right now in the battle against coronavirus is the human mind's ability to adapt,” writes Arzhang Kamarei, Mobius Executive Coach. Arzhang outlines 3 steps to harness your organization’s adaptability. 

“The pandemic offers families the chance to interrupt emotional distancing and deepen their connection to one another.” Mobius Transformational Faculty Member and author Paul Dunion sets out six practices to recalibrate and strengthen family life. 

Mobius Executive Leadership supports The Autumn Salon “Rather than being seen as mere forms of entertainment, the arts are meant to serve a deeper purpose – to awaken and restore a sense of beauty, mystery, and depth of feeling to the presence of our lives.”  

Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler, Mobius Executive Coach, adjunct Professor at Columbia University, and the CEO and Founder of Alignment Strategies Group. How to maintain relationships (and stay sane) in tight quarters. Jennifer offers three practices to shift interpersonal conflict into optimal outcomes with loved ones and colleagues. 

Now more than ever, we need to be present, peaceful, and resourceful quickly. Mobius Transformational Faculty Member and Founder of One Moment Meditation, Martin Boroson guides us through this simple practice to re-center us throughout the day.

David Whyte, world-renowned poet and philosopher, Mobius Friend and Next Practice Institute faculty, explores the conversational nature of reality, the poetic imagination, and the relationship with silence and the invitation embedded within it.

Mobius Executive Leadership CEO Amy Elizabeth Fox writes, "I am privileged to have been interviewed by McKinsey & Company, along with Thomas Hübl, an expert on personal and collective trauma, for this article on empathy and compassion. As the crisis continues it will become more and more apparent that the qualities of attunement, deep listening, and authentic care are essential capacities for senior leaders guiding their organizations through these unpredictable times."