Mindful Agility

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December 30, 2021 Daniel Greening Season 1 Episode 1
Mindful Agility
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Welcome to the Mindful Agility podcast. 

Mindfulness and agile can help you lead a more fulfilled life, at work and at home. Mindfulness practices help us gain insight and clarity, while agile practices help us forge new paths. We explore both. 

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Hosts

  • Mirela Petalli is a trained mindfulness instructor and a neuro critical care nursing instructor. Mirela and Dan have studied mindfulness together for a few years. 
  • Dan Greening is an enterprise agile coach. He led the agile coaching teams at Skype and Citrix to help improve their ability to innovate. He’s started a few companies. Between startup 1 and 2, he miraculously finished a long-postponed computer science PhD. And after startup 3, he cleaned the garage, another miracle.

Human References

  • Mindful Staff (2020) The Science of Mindfulness. Mindful. https://www.mindful.org/the-science-of-mindfulness/

Academic References

  • Baas M, Nevicka B, Ten Velden FS (2014) Specific Mindfulness Skills Differentially Predict Creative Performance. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 40(9):1092–1106.
  • Crane C, Winder R, Hargus E, Amarasinghe M, Barnhofer T (2012) Effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on Specificity of Life Goals. Cogn Ther Res 36(3):182–189.
  • Rosenstreich E, Levi U (2019) Mindfulness and Memory: a Review of Findings and a Potential Model. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement 3.

Staff

  • Daniel Greening, host, agile consultant, software executive
  • Mirela Petalli, co-host, meditation guide, and neurocritical nursing instructor
  • Dan Dickson, business coach, executive and management consultant

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[00:00:00] Daniel Greening: Welcome to the Mindful Agility podcast. 

[00:00:03] Mindfulness and agile can help you lead a more fulfilled life, at work and at home. Mindfulness practices help us gain insight and clarity, while agile practices help us forge new paths. We explore both. 


[00:00:20] Mirela Petalli: The original intent of mindfulness was to reduce suffering. But neuroscientists and psychologists are now discovering that mindfulness practitioners focus better, are more likely to achieve life goals, and are more creative. 

[00:00:34] Lots of successful folks practice mindfulness, including Bill Gates, Ray Daleo, and Oprah Winfrey. 

[00:00:42] Daniel Greening: The original intent of agile was to reduce project failures in companies. Managers are now discovering that agile improves employee happiness and alignment. The most successful companies in the world use agile for projects. Individuals use it, too. 

[00:00:59] Agile is iterative experimentation to explore, adapt, and overcome big challenges. You might want to quit smoking, build a career, publish a bestseller, or solve a humanitarian crisis. Agile folks approach challenges like scientists would. We review expert advice and identify their theories. We test those theories and learn important skills, with a sequence of inexpensive experiments.

[00:01:31] Mirela Petalli: The mindful agility podcast has 25 minute episodes, with 15 minutes of discussion and 10 minutes of guided meditation. It will help you be more mindful and agile in everything you do. 

[00:01:43] I'm Mirela Petalli.

[00:01:46] Daniel Greening: And I'm Dan Greening. 

[00:01:47] Hit the subscribe button and find out more in the show notes.