Program Structure
Phase 1: Members
Phase 2: Leadership Fellows
Phase 3: Advanced Leadership Fellows
1. Mindful Leader Fellowship
2. 1. 2021-22 Cohort Final Projects
3. Capstone Experience
4. Peer Facilitators
5. Program Assistants

Mindful Leader Fellowship

Program Structure
Phase 1: Members
Phase 2: Leadership Fellows
Phase 3: Advanced Leadership Fellows
1. Mindful Leader Fellowship
2. 1. 2021-22 Cohort Final Projects
3. Capstone Experience
4. Peer Facilitators
5. Program Assistants

To be mindful means to be present, focused, and aware as we engage with others and the world around us. Mindful leadership is to embody and lead with a mindset of dignity, self-reflection, compassion, and generosity.

The Mindful Leader Fellows will comprehensively explore the potential of mindfulness and the principles of dignity to transform how we both think about and practice leadership. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on and creatively explore mindfulness and leadership learning through the cultivation and practice of critical self-reflection. Through the integration of the Mindful Mindset framework, mindfulness and contemplative exercises, leadership theories, speaker presentations, and related workshops and activities, students will develop a personal 'toolkit' of interpersonal and leadership skills and practices that will guide their journey to become compassionate, engaged, mindful leaders.

Participants will

Develop a personal toolkit – a set of interpersonal and leadership skills and practices that incorporate features of the mindful mindset, a diverse collection of mindfulness practices, leadership theories, speaker presentations, contemplative art tools, and related workshops and activities.
Learn about and practice mindfulness exercises to help foster their capacity to lead with excellence and critically engage the world.
Deepen their understanding of situated intersectional awareness and cultural humility to more effectively lead diverse and inclusive teams.
Create and collaborate with a supportive and sustainable community of cohort peers.
Experience measurable growth in one or more areas of the Mindful Mindset.
Reflect on their process of understanding and integrating mindful awareness into their lives and their relationships with others.
Identify and cultivate their own emerging mindful leadership qualities and values.
Learn, teach and demonstrate the importance of dignity-focused mindfulness practice.

Time investment

October 2021-April 2022
Mindful Leader Retreat
- Fall Break / October 15-18
5 hours per month, which includes:
- Cohort meetings
- Program Manager meetings
- Speaker events
- Deliverable work