The Organizational Mindfulness Certification Program
Institute for Organizational Science and Mindfulness (IOSM)
The global membership association for science and mindfulness in business, education, and governmental organizations.
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This article describes the Organizational Mindfulness Certification Program for Practitioners, Facilitators, and Teachers.
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What is Organizational Mindfulness?
Organizational Mindfulness is an entirely new category of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI). Just as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was created as a therapeutic intervention for pain and stress management - and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) as a course for therapists treating patients with mental distress - Organizational Mindfulness was created from the ground up to train mental and emotional skills for personal and organizational performance.
Organizational Mindfulness teaches neural practices that produce predictable outcomes in health and well-being, cognitive performance, and emotional intelligence - and that can be intentionally applied to increase work performance.
A Map to Higher Performance
Mindfulness is often perceived (and taught) as a magical breath meditation for stress - or conflated to denote any kind of introspective, calm, or relaxing state. But through a scientific lens, mindfulness is not a single meditative exercise or outcome. It is a toolset of unique neural practices that can be applied to develop specific mental and emotional skills.
Organizational Mindfulness starts with an understanding of the mechanics of each unique practice, the science-validated outcomes of that practice - and strategies for applying those outcomes to improve specific individual and organizational capabilities.
Mental Traits are Trainable Skills
Effective leaders inspire confidence and loyalty through traits like authenticity, presence, integrity, and compassion. The best sales professionals are able to quickly earn trust, establish rapport, and use intuition and influence to move a deal forward. The best software engineers are able to diminish distraction, engage very deeply, and work in a state of creative flow.
We now know that these important traits (and many more) are actually trainable skills - and that they can be internalized and embodied through intentional neural exercises.
The Organizational Mindfulness Program is an exploration of this new paradigm, with practical solutions for managing stress, gaining attention control, navigating change and uncertainty, and resolving otherwise intractable personal and organizational challenges.
The Organizational Mindfulness Program
IOSM’s public training program consists of three independent but interlocking courses. Participants start by earning the OM Certificate and can optionally choose to move on to the Facilitator and Teacher Certifications from there.
Courses are designed to be attended end-to-end to provide a comprehensive teaching credential in just 16 weeks. However, students can pause at any point and come back to complete their certifications by joining any future cohort.
Certified Teachers are encouraged to share IOSM knowledge and selected materials through their own programs or in their own organizations - or they can become IOSM Teaching Partners, who are licensed to deliver the entire Organizational Mindfulness branded curriculum and all related resources.
Course Outlines
The OM Certificate course teaches the all-science practices that develop mental and emotional skills - and their applications to improve performance and solve real-world business problems.
The OM Facilitator course certifies the hands-on facilitation skills for introducing the value of mindfulness, sharing the context, guiding the practices, and creating effective programs for clients, teams, or an entire organization.
The OM Teacher course certifies the knowledge and skills to instruct students in the principles and practices of mindfulness and independently teach the IOSM-branded Organizational Mindfulness curriculum.
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Time Guidelines
Weekly live classes for all courses are 90 minutes. We recommend budgeting an additional 30-60 minutes a week for self-study and 10 minutes a day or more for practice.
Course Options and Pricing
Course Materials and Resources
The Organizational Mindfulness Certificate includes an array of learning assets and supporting resources.
These Include:
Learning Tools:
Graduates Earn:
Facilitator and Teacher Resources
Once certified, Facilitators, Teachers, and Partners have tiered access to IOSM premium assets and learning aids. These include all of the course resources above, PLUS:
Enterprise and Train-the-Trainer Options
The 8-week Organizational Mindfulness Certificate, as well as the Facilitator and Teacher Certification courses, can be scheduled as dedicated enterprise training, online or onsite.
The program can also be delivered as a comprehensive train-the-trainer program - optionally bundled with class materials and resources to create all-science, turn-key, in-house mindfulness training for your employees.
Institute for Organizational Science and Mindfulness (IOSM)
IOSM is an association of human capital and operating leaders, coaches, and educators with a shared mission to bring all-science mindfulness into the mainstream of the diverse modern organization.
We're working to create a global community, conduct research, define standards and practices, develop educational programs, and determine the measures, metrics, and analytics for organizational mindfulness.