Mindfulness for Organizations Programs for healthcare and other workplaces
Work is where many of us encounter stress, distraction, difficult conversations, uncertainty, and competing demands. Mindfulness offers a way to become more aware of what’s happening in ourselves and one another, and to develop greater choice in how we meet that.
The faculty of East Coast Mindfulness works with organizations to bring mindfulness into the workplace through workshops, multi-session programs, MBSR, ongoing practice, mindfulness champion training, and customized offerings.
Programs are offered primarily online, making it possible to bring live, experiential mindfulness training to organizations and teams regardless of location. In-person programs may be available by arrangement. On-demand mindfulness trainings, ranging from two-minute practices to longer sessions, are also available.
Programs emphasize practice, conversation, and application to work and everyday life.
Note: Mindfulness is not a substitute for healthy working conditions. While mindfulness can support how we meet the challenges of work, it can’t fix excessive workloads, unhealthy workplace cultures, inadequate resources, or dysfunctional systems. Meaningful organizational well-being requires attention to both the individual and the conditions in which people work.
How It Works
Ways to Work Together
Who We Work With
Programs can be designed for:
Teams and departments
Create a shared experience of mindfulness within a particular working environment.
Leaders and executives
Explore presence, awareness, and the capacity to respond rather than react amid complex decisions, competing demands, and change.
Healthcare professionals
Support people working in demanding, relational, and high-stakes environments.
Organizational offsites and retreats
Bring mindfulness into team gatherings, leadership retreats, planning sessions, and other shared experiences.
Professional groups and conferences
Offer an experiential introduction or focused workshop as part of a larger gathering.
Why Rebecca Eldridge and East Coast Mindfulness?
Rebecca has been practicing and teaching mindfulness for decades, with a particular focus on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). She trained through UMass Medical School's Center for Mindfulness and later joined its faculty, where she trained and mentored mindfulness teachers and helped develop early online MBSR offerings, working with clinicians and executives as well. In 2016, she trained her colleagues at the Center for Mindfulness to deliver their first MBSR course online. She is the principal author of the MBSR Appendix to Jon Kabat-Zinn's revised MBSR curriculum, which provides guidance for teaching MBSR in live online settings.
She’s worked extensively with organizations, healthcare professionals, and other groups seeking to bring mindfulness into real-world settings. Her work has also included assessing MBSR teaching quality and contributing to the development of tools that bring participants' perspectives into the evaluation of MBSR teaching.
She has personally trained all East Coast Mindfulness faculty to teach MBSR online, bringing this depth of training and experience to our programs.
Our approach is practical, experiential, and responsive. The goal isn't to add one more thing to an already-full workday. It's to find ways mindfulness can be genuinely relevant to the people and circumstances already there.
Investment
Published prices are starting prices for online delivery. Final pricing may vary based on the scope and format of each engagement, including the number of participants and people with access, length and number of sessions, customization and preparation, whether sessions are recorded and, if so, whether the recording is licensed or purchased, how it may be used, and how long access is provided, registration or administrative support, materials, and technical or production support.
In-person programs, travel from the U.S. East Coast, and other additional services may be quoted separately. A specific proposal will be provided after an initial conversation.
Research & Resources
More than 30 years of research by psychologists, neuroscientists, and others has explored the benefits of mindfulness, including its effects on stress, emotional and physical well-being, and quality of life. Mindfulness continues to be an active area of research and inquiry, as evidenced by the large and growing body of academic research in the field. A few studies are highlighted on our Evidence page.
Given the evidence for mindfulness in reducing stress and improving focus and well-being, it’s understandable that workplaces are increasingly curious about how to incorporate mindfulness-based offerings into their existing employee support programs. A common question is: What do we know about the effects of mindfulness-based programs on employee stress and well-being?
Building Workforce Resilience at the Individual and Organizational Levels
Mindfulness was one of three initiatives selected by Houston Methodist to address staff resiliency; East Coast Mindfulness was selected to develop and deliver online mindfulness programs tailored to the needs of hospital staff. Data was collected to assess the efficacy of the initiatives, and participants reported a reduction in stress levels of up to 50% (as measured by the Perceived Stress Scale).
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Mindfulness-Based Programs in the Workplace: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
A 2020 meta-analysis of 56 workplace studies found evidence that mindfulness-based programs can reduce stress, burnout, mental distress, and somatic complaints, while improving well-being, compassion, and job satisfaction.
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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Workplace Mindfulness Training Randomized Controlled Trials
A 2019 review of 23 randomized controlled trials found beneficial effects on mindfulness, stress, anxiety, psychological distress, well-being, and sleep. The authors noted that evidence for work performance was insufficient to draw conclusions.
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Mindfulness-Based and Mindfulness-Informed Interventions at the Workplace: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis of RCTs
A 2023 review of 91 studies found improvements across several areas of employee health and well-being, including stress, mental health, physical health, and work-related outcomes, while also noting heterogeneity and limitations in the research.
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Effects of a Mindfulness App on Employee Stress in an Australian Public Sector Workforce: Randomized Controlled Trial
A 2022 study found that while technology can increase access and extend mindfulness practice, evidence suggests that live human guidance may increase engagement and deepen outcomes.
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