Help your employees be resilient in the face of Covid-19 with mindfulness challenges
This crisis is bigger than any one of us. Business is disrupted, workers are worrying, and life has been upended from normal.
But Covid-19 is not bigger than all of us. We can band together to strengthen our communities, teams, and businesses - and bounce back even stronger.
Our challenge, Navigating Uncertainty, helps employees de-stress during this period of turbulence through activities around stress, anxiety, gratitude and more.
Guided meditation | Breathing micro meditation Gain a rapid introduction to guided meditation with a short activity to focus thoughts on the rising and falling of breath, and re-focusing thoughts as the mind wanders. | |
Guided meditation | Walking activity Develop a practice of paying attention to body sensations, thoughts, and environmental surroundings that come by engaging in a short walk either inside or out. | |
Journaling | Journaling the present Strengthen an emerging sense of non-judgmental mindfulness by responding to a hyper-focused journal question: “How are you at this very moment?” |
Guided meditation | Body scan meditation Increase mindfulness by focusing attention on the current state (tense/relaxed, temperature, location etc) of different parts of the body in a methodical fashion — from head to toe. | |
Journaling | Anxiety journaling Use journaling to reflect on a recent time of anxiety or worry, what caused those feelings, and opportunities to re-approach that worry. | |
Experience activity | Thought Record Examine a situation that may be causing anxiety using a variety of different angles — how thoughts around it may be distorted from reality and making a counterargument against those worrysome thoughts. |
Guided meditation | Breathing meditation De-stress with a guided meditation that focuses especially on being aware of the movements around inhalation and exhalation. | |
Journaling | Stress journal Use journaling to reflect on current and past stressors, how to handle them, and learnings for going forward. | |
Experience activity | Destress by connecting with others Turn outward and connect with others (e.g. send a friend an email expressing gratitude, let a trusted friend or family member know what’s stressing you, or helping someone else) and reflect on how strengthening social connections helped with stress. |
Journaling | Three good things Drive awareness of positive, optimistic events that have occured during the past week, and concretize three of those events in a journal entry. | |
Guided meditation | Gratitude meditation Spend a few quiet moments focusing thoughts on meaningful things for which to give gratitude. | |
Experience activity | Gratitude note Develop positive emotions by writing, delivering, and reading a letter of thanks to someone meaningful. |