A Journey Through the Creation and Delivery of Mindful Leadership: Application of Mindfulness in Industry;

The Power of the Classroom Container and the Emotional Transformation That Occurs Within It.

Abstract

During my four-year academic tenure at Universitas Triatma Mulya Stenden (UNTRIM) - formerly known as Stenden University, Bali - I designed and taught the program Mindful Leadership: Application of Mindfulness in Industry to 3^rd and 4^th year business and hospitality students enrolled in the Bachelor’s of Human Resources Management. This program “minor” (as it is referred to in the Dutch higher education system, due to its 15 study credits and 420 study hours) was my attempt to create an experientially-based academic program that integrated foundational practices of mindfulness and emotional intelligence into more contemporary leadership studies. In doing so, it synthesized personal development (contemplative) modalities into three respective units that purposefully overlapped in content: Mindfulness (unit 1), Emotional Intelligence (unit 2), and Leadership (unit 3). From the six month curriculum conception stage (design journey) leading up to the program’s launch in September 2019, right through to its delivery both online (during the COVID learning period) and offline, this program saw both triumph and tribulation; I now reflect upon this having left my full-time position as coordinator and head lecturer of the Mindful leadership program at UNTRIM.

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