Description: Using the breath to expand our awareness, Dr. Dorianne Cotter-Lockard leads us through an adaptation of a traditional Loving-Kindness meditation to enhance individual and collective well-being.

As a service to our larger community, Saybrook University is offering a daily mindful moment through May 29, 2020, beginning at 12:15 PM Eastern. Designed to be 15 minutes in length, our Mind-Body Medicine faculty have banded together to provide these sessions as a source of centering and solace in these extraordinary times.

For more information about Saybrook University, go to: www.saybrook.edu. You can also learn more about the Saybrook Mind-Body Medicine program by going to https://www.saybrook.edu/areas-of-study/mind-body-medicine/

Description:  Anxiousness and depressive feelings involve rumination in well-worn cognitive defaults and thought patterns. Join Dr. Donna Rockwell as she guides us to mindfulness to help train the mind to return to "present moment awareness" from more discursive thinking. Meditation practices like Riding the Breath, and Gathering Meditation are short, easy, and well suited to calming the mind, body, and spirit. Through insight, joy follows.

As a service to our larger community, Saybrook University is offering a daily mindful moment through May 29, 2020, beginning at 12:15 PM Eastern. Designed to be 15 minutes in length, our Mind-Body Medicine faculty have banded together to provide these sessions as a source of centering and solace in these extraordinary times.

For more information about Saybrook University, go to: www.saybrook.edu. You can also learn more about the Saybrook Mind-Body Medicine program by going to https://www.saybrook.edu/areas-of-study/mind-body-medicine/

Description: Despite the difficulty and disruption of this time, our practice can steady us and give us the resilience we need. Join Dr. Lynne Shaner, as she leads us as to take a few moments to center, relax, and be guided into a place of calm strength.

As a service to our larger community, Saybrook University is offering a daily mindful moment through May 29, 2020, beginning at 12:15 PM Eastern. Designed to be 15 minutes in length, our Mind-Body Medicine faculty have banded together to provide these sessions as a source of centering and solace in these extraordinary times.

For more information about Saybrook University, go to: www.saybrook.edu. You can also learn more about the Saybrook Mind-Body Medicine program by going to https://www.saybrook.edu/areas-of-study/mind-body-medicine/

Description: Progressive muscle relaxation is one of the oldest of the modern mind-body methods. In this session, Dr. Luann Fortune guides us through a brief version to help release muscle tightness in our body to bring calm and balance to our minds.

As a service to our larger community, Saybrook University is offering a daily mindful moment through May 29, 2020, beginning at 12:15 PM Eastern. Designed to be 15 minutes in length, our Mind-Body Medicine faculty have banded together to provide these sessions as a source of centering and solace in these extraordinary times.

For more information about Saybrook University, go to: www.saybrook.edu. You can also learn more about the Saybrook Mind-Body Medicine program by going to https://www.saybrook.edu/areas-of-study/mind-body-medicine/

Description: Dr. Don Moss leads in an existential meditation that includes a visualization on this liminal moment that we share with fellow humans world-wide. Participants will visualize a passage that is personal, a transition, a voyage, a journey issuing forth from this liminal space and time.

As a service to our larger community, Saybrook University is offering a daily mindful moment through April 30, 2020, beginning at 12:15 PM Eastern. Designed to be 15 minutes in length, our Mind-Body Medicine faculty have banded together to provide these sessions as a source of centering and solace in these extraordinary times.

For more information about Saybrook University, go to: www.saybrook.edu. You can also learn more about the Saybrook Mind-Body Medicine program by going to https://www.saybrook.edu/areas-of-study/mind-body-medicine/

Dr. Chess returns to the podcast to offer additional insights on leadership from an adaptive leadership framework, discussing ways leaders can be more effective and navigate change in our new world order. She provides unique examples from healthcare and other sectors as key examples.

Dr. Chess' Bio

Mary Kay served as a healthcare executive for multi-state systems for over 30 years.  During her tenure of also working with NGOs, global businesses and community officials to create systems, unique partnerships and products, she was intrigued that well-intended interventions often delivered the same results with minimal change. Through national conversations, explorations and a PhD in Transformational Learning and Change, she committed to finding and supporting emerging and experienced leaders willing to pilot innovations, create unusual partnerships, savor conflict and invite ambiguity.  This led her to serve with other like-minded colleagues to listen and teach learners in a unique Leadership and Management program at Saybrook University.  She continued her belief that competitors can collaborate and that healthcare network leaders, when equipped with systems thinking, offer resilient sustainable practices and engagements to serve diverse communities. Indeed, when courage and laughter meet over thorny issues, innovation and transformation emerge.  More now, than ever.

For more information about Saybrook University, go to: www.saybrook.edu.  

Description: The elements of nature have been acknowledged and celebrated by many cultures, past and present. Today's meditation, led by Dr. Selene Kumin Vega, connects us with earth, water, fire, air, and space/spirit, through the body and through nature.

As a service to our larger community, Saybrook University is offering a daily mindful moment through April 30, 2020, beginning at 12:15 PM Eastern. Designed to be 15 minutes in length, our Mind-Body Medicine faculty have banded together to provide these sessions as a source of centering and solace in these extraordinary times.

For more information about Saybrook University, go to: www.saybrook.edu. You can also learn more about the Saybrook Mind-Body Medicine program by going to https://www.saybrook.edu/areas-of-study/mind-body-medicine/

Description:  The cognitive mind tends to get stuck in ruminative thoughts of past regret or feared future catastrophe. By sitting like a mountain in meditation practice, simply watching thoughts and emotions pass like clouds across the landscape of the mind, without judgment, we can learn to gently return from these conflictive mental states to the present moment, a practice that is applicable in every moment of our lives.

As a service to our larger community, Saybrook University is offering a daily mindful moment through April 30, 2020, beginning at 12:15 PM Eastern. Designed to be 15 minutes in length, our Mind-Body Medicine faculty have banded together to provide these sessions as a source of centering and solace in these extraordinary times.

For more information about Saybrook University, go to: www.saybrook.edu. You can also learn more about the Saybrook Mind-Body Medicine program by going to https://www.saybrook.edu/areas-of-study/mind-body-medicine/

Today’s episode features Dr. Dennis Jaffe, a long-time Saybrookian who has served in several capacities including as core faculty and trustee. In his life as emeritus faculty, Dr. Jaffe continues his unique research on family wealth providing important insights into this particular group of individuals. His work has taken him around the world and back resulting in cutting-edge scholarship on the topic. We also dive a bit into humanistic psychology and the impact of COVID-19 around the globe.

About Dennis Jaffe (from www.dennisjaffe.com)

For over 40 years, Dr. Jaffe has been one of the leading architects of the field of family enterprise consulting. As both an organizational consultant and clinical psychologist, he helps multi-generational families to develop governance practices that build the capability of next generation leadership and ensure ongoing capability of financial organizations and family offices to serve their family clients.

His work with families helps inform financial advisors and wealth managers about the knowledge and skills needed to serve their client families. He is an acclaimed speaker and workshop leader in programs for business families and financial service firms. He is an associate with Wise Counsel Research, a think tank that sponsors my research and offers professional education workshops.

He is also a Family Business Scholar at the Smith Family Business Initiative at Cornell University, a faculty advisor at the Ultra High New Worth Institute, a regular contributor to Forbes Leadership channel, reporting on family cross-generational family business and wealth, and a professional member of STEP, Society for Trust and Estate Planners.

Since its inception, he has been an active member of the Family Firm Institute, presenting at annual conferences, serving on the board, designing and delivering educational courses in their GEN program and writing for the Family Business Review. In 2017, he was recognized by the Family Firm Institute for my international work, and in 2004, received the prestigious Richard Beckhard Award for contributions to professional practice.

For 35 years, he was professor of Organizational Systems and Psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco (now located in Pasadena, California), where he is now professor emeritus. He received his B.A. in Philosophy, M.A. in Management and Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University.

We know the feeling of appreciation, of being grateful for some thing or someone in life, yet we don’t seem to experience this feeling as often as we’d like. Dr. Shannon McLain Sims guides us through a reflective meditation to help us feel more present and inspire feelings of heart-warming connection to ourselves, people, and the world around us.

As a service to our larger community, Saybrook University is offering a daily mindful moment through April 30, 2020, beginning at 12:15 PM Eastern. Designed to be 15 minutes in length, our Mind-Body Medicine faculty have banded together to provide these sessions as a source of centering and solace in these extraordinary times.

For more information about Saybrook University, go to: www.saybrook.edu. You can also learn more about the Saybrook Mind-Body Medicine program by going to https://www.saybrook.edu/areas-of-study/mind-body-medicine/