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Corporate Wellness Programs
We create an intimate experience to develop trust, authenticity, open communication, empathy, compassion & project & time management skills - the tools needed for excellent teamwork and collaboration. Utilizing our proprietary mind-mapping processes coupled with wellness practices such as yoga, breathwork, meditation, Ayurveda and more, we offer opportunities and practical deliverables for your team to become more aware of their energetic footprint.
Our Goal: Help you cultivate whole-hearted leaders that are actively practicing healthy habits and mindfulness for work-life balance, inclusion and stress management - leading their teams by example.
Our Secret Weapon
Owner of Ascending Spirit, Allison Jurgens, was a former Vice President of Global Marketing in a Fortune 500 company managing a distributed team and a massive portfolio of products and services in B2B commerce. She has experience working in highly stressful environments (large & small), and has implemented many of the practices we teach with great success to help teams navigate the cyclical ups and downs of market dynamics, budget constraints, time pressures, mergers & acquisitions, and resource scarcity.
She developed the tools we utilize to help her stay grounded, establish boundaries, create lasting relationships, negotiate with awareness and cope with the daily stressors of being neurodivergent (ADHD & HSP). By creating a foundation of open communication, appreciating the value of time as a resource, establishing measurable goals and investing in training, she often fosters a culture of positivity and inclusion - moving teams away from a mindset of 'soul sucking jobs' and into a creative space of unlimited possibilities. The outcome - a team of highly organized and motivated individuals recognized for their unique talents and delivery capabilities that feel empowered, engaged and supported.
Excited by these outcomes, Allison moved on to study a broad range of health & wellness practices to further refine her models. She now offers this coaching and mindfulness strategy to companies interested in prioritizing wellness to reduce turnover, improve morale, decrease miscommunication and restore value and recognition in their personnel.
Core Topics for Workshops & Speaking Engagements
Based on the outcome of several workshops, interviews and speaking engagements in 2024 with progressive companies leveraging mindful leadership as a key differentiator, the following topics have been the most impactful and well-received. If any of these are of interest for your team, please contact us to schedule a discovery call.
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Habitual Success: Traits of Highly Successful, Healthy Professionals
This is a 1-hour lecture and activity that encourages reflection on your daily routine and offers tips & tricks to incorporate bite-sized wellness practices for busy professionals. We’ll cover the five essential habits that lead to improved cognitive performance, better present moment awareness and healthier relationships with food, money, others, SELF, etc.
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Wellness Acumen: Developing a Common Language to Measure Workplace Well-Being
In this 1.5-hour session, we’ll create a wellness scorecard based on the priorities, criteria and input from your team. This is a collaborative exercise that is fun, engaging and requires open communication. The goal is to encourage discussion of limitations & barriers to implementing corporate wellness while also gaining commitment from the team to make it a priority.
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Negotiating 101: How to Make Your Team’s Well-Being a Top Priority
Setting and communicating boundaries is a dance. Much like a salsa or tango, there are times to lead and follow; times to expand and contract; and times to appreciate stillness vs. activate motion. Having a strong sense of purpose & SELF coupled with empathy, integrity & compassion creates the appropriate foundation to negotiate effectively. In this 1-1.5 hour session we will explore the art and dance of prioritizing your needs while honoring commitments.
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Just Breathe: The Art of Using Breathwork to Minimize Stress & Reactivity
Learning how to breathe is a critical part of managing stress and improving your health. Shallow breathing has been linked to increased heart rate, cholesterol, sleep apnea, stress and indigestion along with suppressed immune function and elevated mood disruption. In this session, I’ll teach you several breath techniques that can be used daily to help you regulate mood and stress. The goal is to equip you with the ability to take the most impactful 20-30 minute breather so you can gather your energy and cultivate moments of clarity through stillness.
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Trigger Happy: When Your Catalysts Are in Charge
Cultivating stillness is a practice that creates space for awareness and compassionate curiosity. When we are in perpetual motion, a state of chronic stress or in a loop of recurring thought, we lack resources and energy to evaluate our circumstances and respond. Rather we react. Did you know your body secretes hormones and other bio-chemicals as a defense mechanism before you actually feel the emotion or have a thought about the event, information or experience? In this 1-hour lecture and meditation, you’ll be encouraged to release old behaviors, thoughts, stories, and beliefs about triggers that create patterns of reaction for you. The goal of this session is to provide tools for slowing down and activating the parasympathetic nervous system.
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Energy Management & Your Energetic Footprint
Your energy is a precious commodity. Where your thoughts travel, your energy follows - attracting or repelling similar or contrarian energy toward & away from you. Personal energy management is a critical concept to master as a professional looking to optimize work:life balance. In this session, we’ll cover the theory of energy management (what improves, detracts or neutralizes your energy & engagement) as well as provide tips and tricks for mindful energy management. We’ll also discuss the concept of your energetic footprint and the impression you leave with others & the energetic field. We’ll introduce a template to help you map your ripple effect and challenge you to consider what footprint you’d like to leave. Additionally, we’ll discuss the idea of exertion and recovery.
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Eating Right for the Season & Your Constitution
The food we eat impacts our decision making, critical thinking skills, cognitive performance, immune function and mood. Early detection of imbalance is a critical component of disease prevention, and food is the most cost-effective form of medicine. During this session, we’ll discuss the energetics of food, how to leverage it as a primary source of healing, and how to eat right for your particular needs and digestion. Understanding how to use food medicinally will help you gain some control over your health, mood and vitality.
What is an energetic footprint?
Cascading outward like a pebble thrown in water, your thoughts create an energetic magnet attracting and repelling people, experiences and opportunities. One of our proprietary processes is to help leaders understand the impact of their emotions, actions, reactions and mental state on those around them and beyond.
Leveraging a mind map template we've developed called the Ripple Effect, we guide leaders and employees through a writing activity so they visually see how their actions create reactions and emotions with lasting impressions. To reduce workplace volatility, hostility and stress, this exercise is designed to bring awareness to behaviors, patterns, thoughts and stories that may need to be replicated or modified based on the unlimited ripple it creates throughout the organization. This is an energetic footprint.
With awareness and agency, we can then implement proactive measures to limit the negative impact our 'drop in the water' has on colleagues, customers, suppliers, family members and more.
30-Day Wellness Challenge for Mindful Leaders
Our 30-day Wellness Challenge provides a structured program with activities, templates, deliverables and guided discussions that celebrates diversity and promotes goodwill, team work, collaboration, inclusion and empathy. It's designed to cultivate work-life balance by training leaders to practice mindfulness, present moment awareness and healthy habits to reduce workplace stress and hyper-reactivity.
Based on our experience, the most effective way to change employee morale and implement company-wide wellness is to take a top down approach whereby people managers set the example. With their actions, they give permission to their teams to honor work-life balance which then cascades throughout the entire organization.
Investing in a wellness program demonstrates a commitment to the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well-being of employees, and recognizes personnel as more than just human capital. It is one of the greatest gifts leaders can give with long-lasting benefits and value creation for both the company and the individual.
Below are some of the concepts and activities included in our 30-day Wellness Challenge Program:
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A corporate-wide wellness audit
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Leadership training and coaching
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Mind mapping
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Gaps & gains mentality
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Team assessments
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Goal setting
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Communicating with compassion & empathy
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Protecting your time
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The role of diet & digestion in decision-making
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Recognizing & celebrating neurodivergence
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Abundance mindset training
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Yoga
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Breathwork
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Meditation
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Time & calendar chunking
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Detoxing yourself & your environment
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Dosha identification & practices for balance
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Sound healing
Benefits of the 30-day Challenge
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Improved morale
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Less workplace stress and reactivity
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Decreased absenteeism
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Improved emotional intelligence
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Stronger alignment and communication
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Less confusion and frustration
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Reduction in turnover
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Increased employee satisfaction
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Improved productivity, innovation & creativity
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Greater empathy & compassion
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Set of tools and practices that can be implemented across the organization
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Understanding of the gaps and quick wins in your initiative
"Businesses with meditation programs for employees experienced a 520% profit increase and a 120% increase in employee productivity." - CompareCamp 2020 Research
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