Inviting Mindful Humor and Lightness into the Workplace
When the workplace veers into the too-serious, or a somewhat rigid place where stress is stifling, or where there is a wish to connect the humans working together in a fun, creative and productive way, then Lightfulness offers solutions.
Depending on participants/organizations needs and wishes, the trainings can focus on:
-stress-management, wellness and resiliency
-creativity, communication and collaboration
-celebrating success and failures
Moshe offers professional development for tech/corporate/ngo/non-profit worlds, as well as trainings for teachers, healthcare professionals and therapists.
Whether it’s a 50 minute Levity Pause, or a series of longer trainings, scroll down the page to see current offerings.
Some of the places Moshe has offered trainings:
Current Offerings
Moshe creates trainings according to an organization’s needs.
Here are some possibilities:
Levity Pause
Give the thinking mind a break, let go of the daily grind. Enter your creative zone in a mindful manner and have a bit of fun with your sense of funny. De-stress and release tension using aspects of Zen (walking meditation), Physical Theater (non-verbal expression) and Clown/Commedia (humor & timing). Develop skillful tools to inject your sense of humor into daily life.
20-60 minutes, online. 1-3 hours live.
“Thank you! We had a fabulous time. You were genuinely quoted by most of the team as the high point of the day”
Lucy
Senior Director, Paypal
Lightfulness Pause
An engaged humorous pathway to embody a lighter self.
A brief excursion on the lighter side of mindfulness. Awaken your sense of humor with awareness. Awaken your subtler side to open & develop lightfulness. Let go of the outer world for a moment, have a bit of fun as you taste several disciplines: zen (kinhin, walking meditation), physical theater (non-verbal expression) , clown (gesture, timing and humor) and butoh dance (slowing it all down). Develop destress and tension release skills and tools. Inject a bit of lightfulness into daily life.
20-60 minutes, online. 1-3 hours live.
“I loved the definition of ‘levity’ as a lightness. Humor is always a possibility, but not an imperative. So freeing.”
Edith,
Technical Writing Team, Dolby Labs
The Zen and Fun of Juggling
Learn and have fun with the practice of juggling 1,2,3 balls
-Give your thinking mind a break and place attention in throwing and catching multiple objects.
-Invite fun and play into the mindful pathway of juggling and create mini practices for daily life.
-Explore the practice of enjoying (and learning from) mistakes.
-Cultivate wisdom, let go of goals and open a pathway of curiosity, attention and fun.
20-60 minutes, online. 1-3 hours live.
My year of weekly team building training with Moshe is one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself and all the members of my team.
Danese Cooper,
former Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, PayPal.
A Recipe for Customized Training
Choose some of these ingredients to create a training for your workplace
Mindful movement practices: chi gong, feldenkreis movement, tenshingoso
Practices inviting lightness and humor into non-verbal expression
Levity Awareness + Activation
Physical theater and comedy improvisations
External & interactive mindfulness practices
Active listening skills
Collaborative communication skills
Public speaking and presentation skills
Stress release and resiliency practices
Mindfulness through walking meditation
Personal lightfulness practices and rituals
The Zen of Juggling
The short story of Lightfulness
When Bernie Glassman, pioneering Zen master, came to study clown with Moshe back in 1998, he was looking for tools of tricksterdom, humor-full ways to deal with some of his disciples who took themselves too seriously. Bernie challenged Moshe to develop teachings that apply clown to everyday life. Instead of learning how to be a clown, the goal became to develop skillful tools: Expressing humor and lightness non-verbally, being in connection, Being aware and especially Listening. And to Enjoy the moment and share that enjoyment, both in subtlety and exuberance!
Lightfulness: Embodying lightness with mindfulness.
Both humor and lightfulness work wonders in terms of self-care. In connection with others, Lightfulness is often a more useful tool than humor. For humor to come alive, it requires an interaction. Lightness requires no interaction, it can simply be present. Neuroscience proves that lightness is a powerful tool influencing connections subconsciously.