Mindfulness & Meditation “We live in an era of great possibilities, but the price of pushing ourselves to achieve can be a life clouded by stress and tension. Meditation gives us a tool to return to our original stillness, and allows us relief from an out-of-control mind that constantly rushes forward into the future or rewinds back to the past,” says Tim Burkett, PhD, guiding teacher of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center. “We have seen increased interest at the Center from many who wish to weave meditation into their busy lives. Bringing in Norman Fischer is one way we can help introduce the healing power of meditation to the Twin Cities’ business community and beyond.”

“The science is also intriguing,” adds Burkett. “Long-term meditators often demonstrate an increased amount of gray matter in the insula and sensory regions, the auditory and sensory cortex and more gray matter in the frontal cortex, which is associated with working memory and executive decision making.”

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Eight Mindfulness Practices for

Effective Leadership with Norman Fischer

One-Day Workshop with Norman Fischer Date: Friday, March 25, 2016Time: 8:30 am – 4:30 pmLocation: Opus College of Business, St. Thomas University, Minneapolis

The Minnesota Zen Meditation Center is welcoming Norman Fischer, teacher, author, and former co-abbot of the world-renowned San Francisco Zen Center, to the Twin Cities for a business leadership workshop. Fischer is one of the founding designers of Google’s wildly successful Search Inside Yourself program, created to help people working in a corporate setting develop emotional intelligence based on mindfulness.

Fischer will deliver to local business executives the same techniques of mindfulness and meditation that have enhanced the lives of busy professionals from Google University’s Search Inside Yourself.

The mission of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center is to help people experience a deep and quiet joy that arises when one is fully engaged in the work or play of the moment. Fischer’s workshop brings this mission to a new audience by demonstrating how mindfulness can be applied in a business setting and how meditation can help leaders grow in their positions with joy and wholeness.

Norman Fischer Norman Fischer is a writer and Zen Buddhist priest. For many years he has taught at the San Francisco Zen Center, the oldest and largest of the new Buddhist organizations in the West, where he served as co-abbot from 1995-2000.

Fischer helped shape the famous Google U course Search Inside Yourself, a cultural phenomenon that became a book and evolved into the SIY Leadership Institute. He is a frequent speaker and teacher, inspiring Western audiences to use Buddhist philosophy and meditation techniques to build a foundation of mindfulness to enhance all aspects of life—spiritual, personal, and professional. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation, which seeks to make the world a better place through Zen, and the author of numerous books.

Workshop Norman Fischer will teach the techniques and skills needed to thrive in a results-driven, fast-paced professional career without becoming simply reactive. He will help participants integrate inner life with work life to enhance personal development and success. He will discuss the foundational role mindfulness meditation plays in this process, highlighting the success it has brought to executives in the most cutting-edge workplaces — including Google.

Sponsors We are pleased to have the following sponsors for this event. Atmosphere Commercial InteriorsCOCO Coworking and Collaborative SpaceEnova IlluminationFredrikson & Byron, P.A.Global Rights for WomenHennepin County Medical CenterMaslon LLPMedtronicMN CupNilan Johnson Lewis, PAUnited Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities

If you are affiliated with of one of these organizations, you will receive a discount on this workshop. You will not need a code to register as an affiliate. $75 of the workshop cost is a tax deductible donation.

Fees and Registration Register at: mnzencenter.org/events $125 for employees of sponsoring organizations (lunch provided) $175 for the general public (lunch provided) Please register early, as the event is limited to 200 seats. You will not need a code to register as a member of a sponsoring organization. Please note that $75 of this fee is a tax deductible donation to the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center. If you have questions about registration, please email info@mnzencenter.org or call 612.822.5313.

In the Business World Fischer has worked with business leaders, lawyers, medical professionals, technology workers, psychologists, and others to expand the techniques first developed for Search Inside Yourself into a practice set especially for those seeking to grow into more effective leaders.

“My goal of personal integrity and the goals of the corporation and the participants seem to line up,” says Fischer. “Many people recognize operating out of touch with your emotions yields bad results. It’s not going to work any more to pay all of your attention to work life and none to your inner life. They’re not separate.”