Mindfulness Based Strategic Awareness Training - The Workbook

A comprehensive training program to navigate skillfully in this disruptive, uncertain time
 
This comprehensive workbook provides a mind training based on new findings in neuroscience that will enhance your decision-making skills. Skillful, strategically aware decisions in professional and private life are key for sustainable well-being and flourishing in life.
 
Part 1 provides a conceptual introduction into understanding the brain as a predicting organ, actively inferring, and constantly trying to optimize energy.
 
Part 2 leads you through a systematic training program of 8 sessions to enhance strategic awareness and improve decision-making skills by increasing the precision of our perception and mental processing. The practices are designed to fit in a busy schedule with a focus on the challenges we all grapple with in daily life.
 
While thorough and well-grounded in scientific research this workbook is also pleasant and inspiring to read. It is filled with practical examples and the author's own life experience. Numerous hand-drawn illustrations inspire also visually.
 
The MBSAT methodology has been tested by practitioners for over 10 years and is widely acclaimed. The government of Singapore, known for its outstanding commitment to education and investment in the human resources of its population, has included MBSAT in its official skill-building program and heavily subsidizes participation in MBSAT training. It is one of the testimonials to the efficacy of MBSAT.

List of contents

Figures xi
 
Boxes xiv
 
Practices, Exercises, Tools, and Experiments xv
 
About the Author xvii
 
Preface: The Genesis of this Book xix
 
A Suggestion on How to Read this Book xxxi
 
About the Companion Website xxxiii
 
Part 1 Foundations and Core Principles of the MBSAT Program 1
 
1 The Underlying Biomechanics of Our Brain 3
 
1.1 Flourishing in a World of "VUCA": Is it Possible? 4
 
1.2 Free Energy Minimization: The Motivation Behind What the Brain Does 4
 
1.3 The Bayesian Hierarchical Hypothesis of the Brain: How the Brain Minimizes Free Energy 11
 
1.4 The Relation Between the Brain and Bayes Theorem 13
 
1.5 The Models in the Brain and Active Inference 16
 
1.6 How the Bayesian Brain Implements Active Inference 21
 
1.7 Summary: Our Brain's Essential Biomechanics 28
 
2 Free Energy, Active Inference and the Predictive BETA Mind in MBSAT 33
 
2.1 MBSAT's History and Evolution 34
 
2.2 Contextualizing MBSAT Under the Free Energy Principle (FEP) 42
 
2.3 Active Inference (AI) in MBSAT 49
 
2.4 The Predictive BETA Mind (PBM) 54
 
3 The MBSAT Program and its Distinctive Features 61
 
3.1 The Predictive Brain in MBSAT 62
 
3.2 Minding Our BETA: The Recognition Models in MBSAT - Valence and Feeling Tone 63
 
3.3 Minding our Portfolio of Beliefs (POB): The Generative Models in MBSAT 67
 
3.4 Minding the Portfolio of Beliefs: People, Self, Adversity and Money 73
 
3.5 Minding the Strategic Adaption of Life (SAL): Skillful Decision-Making 76
 
3.6 Belief Updating and Attention 80
 
3.7 Minding: A Key Quality of MBSAT 82
 
3.8 Mindfulness in MBSAT 85
 
3.9 The Free Energy Minimizing Self (FEMS) 92
 
4 Introduction to the MBSAT Program: Essential Foundations to Make Your MBSAT Training Effective 101
 
4.1 The Journey You Are Embarking On 102
 
4.2 Key Concepts to Understand How Our Brains Work 103
 
4.3 BETA in MBSAT: Body sensations, Emotions, Thoughts, and Action impulses 108
 
4.4 Minding: The Core Function of MBSAT 109
 
4.5 Practices and Practicing in MBSAT 114
 
4.6 Beliefs: The Drivers Behind Our BETA, Predictions and Behaviors 116
 
4.7 Decisions: Orienting and Shaping Our Lives 117
 
4.8 The Free Energy Minimizing Self - FEMS : Your Personal Plan to Implement Free Energy
 
Minimizing Strategies 121
 
4.9 Core Learnings to Remember 122
 
Part 2 The Training Program 131
 
Introduction: Purpose and Meaning of Part 2 133
 
5 Session 1: Minding BETA I - Body Sensations The Body as Source of Interoceptive Signals and Experiences 143
 
5.1 Getting Started: Task of Session 1, Investment and Benefits 144
 
5.2 Introduction and Concepts 145
 
5.3 Aspects of Bodily Sensations 146
 
5.4 Exercises 148
 
5.5 Practices 150
 
5.6 Learnings from Session 1 .158
 
5.7 Action Plan (AP) for the Week of Session 1 160
 
5.8 Personal Notes and Insights 161
 
6 Session 2: Minding BETA II - Emotions Emotions as Source of Interoceptive Signals and Experiences 165
 
6.1 Getting Started: Task of Session 2, Investment and Benefits 166
 
6.2 Quiz on Session 1: Minding BETA I and Chapter 4 Essential Foundations 167
 
6.3 Introduction and Concepts 170
 
6.4 Practices 174
 
6.5 Exercises 177
 
6.6 Learnings from Session 2 .182
 
6.7 Action Plan (AP) for the Week of Session 2 183
 
6.8 Personal Notes and Insights 184
 
7 Session 3: Minding BETA III - Thoughts Thoughts as Exteroceptive Si

About the author

Juan Humberto Young, Doctor of Management, MBA, MAPP, MSt and MSc, is an investor, agrobusiness entrepreneur, author, mindfulness-based cognitive (MBC) therapist and Positive Psychologist. He is Affiliated Faculty Member of Singapore Management University SMU where he leads the Mindfulness-based Strategic Awareness Training teachers' program. He also maintains a counselling/training practice for clients.

Summary

A comprehensive training program to navigate skillfully in this disruptive, uncertain time

This comprehensive workbook provides a mind training based on new findings in neuroscience that will enhance your decision-making skills. Skillful, strategically aware decisions in professional and private life are key for sustainable well-being and flourishing in life.

Part 1 provides a conceptual introduction into understanding the brain as a predicting organ, actively inferring, and constantly trying to optimize energy.

Part 2 leads you through a systematic training program of 8 sessions to enhance strategic awareness and improve decision-making skills by increasing the precision of our perception and mental processing. The practices are designed to fit in a busy schedule with a focus on the challenges we all grapple with in daily life.

While thorough and well-grounded in scientific research this workbook is also pleasant and inspiring to read. It is filled with practical examples and the author's own life experience. Numerous hand-drawn illustrations inspire also visually.

The MBSAT methodology has been tested by practitioners for over 10 years and is widely acclaimed. The government of Singapore, known for its outstanding commitment to education and investment in the human resources of its population, has included MBSAT in its official skill-building program and heavily subsidizes participation in MBSAT training. It is one of the testimonials to the efficacy of MBSAT.

Product details

• Authors: J Humberto Young, Juan Humberto Young
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781119766971
• ISBN: 978-1-119-76697-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 217 mm x 276 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Führung, Psychologie, Psychology, Business & management, Psychologie i. d. Arbeitswelt, Organizational & Industrial Psychology, Wirtschaft u. Management, Management f. Führungskräfte, Management / Leadership