Services
Mind The Gap offers the following services, as well as customized packages for clients.
Introduction to Mindfulness
A one or two-hour session introducing participants to Meditation techniques that they can start to use immediately and be on their way to achieve its many benefits. These sessions can be tailored to group-specific requirements and offer an overview of Mindfulness Meditation based on Shinzen Young’s Unified Mindfulness System. These sessions work well for leadership teams, a town hall learning session, mental health learning or as a regular feature in your organization’s learning schedule.
Session outcomes:
- Understand ‘what’s in it for you?’ ‘Why Mindfulness’
- Learn basic Mindfulness techniques that you can start to use immediately.
- Understand how a regular practice of Mindfulness can help improve your resilience and your ability to effectively lead and work in an environment of constant change.
- Learn how Mindfulness can help reduce stress, improve focus and develop self-awareness.
- Understand how practicing Mindfulness is like going to the gym, but instead of working out your physical muscles, you work out your mind!
- Recognize how Mindfulness can impact individuals as well as organizations, leading to more organizational resilience and sustainable high performance over the long term.
- Receive on-the-spot instruction demonstrating how to bring Mindfulness practices into daily life. Deliver presentations mindfully, participate in meetings mindfully, walk to work mindfully, take the train or subway mindfully, and more.
Fred draws from his unique business and personal background and presents the information in a fun, informative and very impactful way. Fred’s teaching and coaching style sets a foundation for a permanent behavioural shift allowing for positive growth and change.”Eva Gutsche, Stem Consulting |
The Mindfulness Workout
Since you won’t get ‘ripped’ by going to the gym just once, Mind The Gap provides a comprehensive 8 module workshop series based on the Unified Mindfulness ‘Feel Great’ family of techniques, training participants in five Mindfulness Workout Techniques, as well as introducing strategies for when and how to fit Mindfulness into Daily Life; how to Deal with Obstacles and Opportunities; and how to build and keep up your Mindfulness Workout Practice over time. Modules are approximately 1 hour each and can be taught one per week or combined to meet your organization’s needs.
Outcomes include:
- All the outcomes of the Introduction to Mindfulness program above, PLUS…
- Learn the Feel Great family of Unified Mindfulness Meditation techniques and start to use them on your own immediately while developing your own personal Mindfulness practice over the length of the 8-module series.
- Weekly check-in with the teacher to answer questions and give technique guidance
One-on-One Coaching or Personal Training
A personalized program of coaching, just like with your personal trainer at the gym! Programs are designed based on your objectives, which could include:
- All the outcomes of the Introduction to Mindfulness program above, PLUS…
- Through personalized one-on-one coaching, learn the Feel Great family of Unified Mindfulness techniques and start to use them on your own, immediately while developing your own personal Mindfulness practice over the length of the personal coaching series.
Public Speaking
Fred Pitt is available for speaking engagements. A personable and insightful public speaker, engaging and funny, Fred pulls from his background using real-life stories from the corporate world as well as his personal life experiences.