Enrollment — Mindful Workplace Movement

Enroll as an Organization

How can I enroll my organization for the challenge?

Join as a company with our partner mobile apps. Checkout our partner offerings here
Once you enroll your company the App takes care of reporting the aggregate mindfulness minutes every week.

Can my organization participate in the challenge using a different company sponsored meditation app?

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can my organization participate in the challenge without a meditation app?

Yes, you can still participate as an organization in the challenge. Follow the instructions below

Register your organization in the challenge
Report your participation minutes using the link we have sent to you after your registration. A weekly update will help keeping the counter for collective minutes ticking. So your timely action is much appreciated.
You may also choose to report the minutes from various mindfulness activities like group meditations, any mindfulness related workshops, training, seminars during October.

Do i have to get approval from the company BEFore enrolling in the challenge ?

We will only report the aggregate minutes and participants across all companies and do not disclose any company specific information. Please check with your company policies if you need approval.

registered!!!! How can I promote the challenge within my company ?

We are grateful that you are willing to be a volunteer within your company to spread awareness of Mindfulness in the Workplace. We have compiled some best practices to run a successful challenge.

Best Practices for a successful challenge

Are you are champion of mindfulness within your company and wanted your company to participate?
You company is already enrolled and and wanted to make this challenge a a success within your company?
Here are some best practices that we recommend to make it your journey a success.

Get Support

Get a champion for this work as high up in the organization as possible. Functionally it might be the head of wellness programs, or the head of People/HR. If there’s an executive that meditates or has interest, get them involved too! It’s super powerful if they can talk about it publicly with employees, perhaps even sharing their story of why mindfulness has benefitted them.

Build Awareness

Utilize all of your available channels inside the company to ensure broad awareness.

Company All Hands – work with the All Hands organizer in advance to secure space. Have one crisp slide that you or one of the executives can share in ~90 seconds. Keep it simple. No need to do a deep dive on everything that’s happening.
Slack and other Messaging Systems—Start a #MindfulnessChallenge channel and post regularly in main forums like #general!
All-Employee Email Aliases—Utilize a group email alias to share the challenge company-wide

Brevity

Meditation alone is a complex topic, so keep any messages brief and focused!

What is it?—A personal challenge to complete 20 sessions during October
Benefits—reduce stress, build resiliency, start a healthy habit
Call to Action—”Sign Up” should be explicitly stated and easy to do

Communicate

Have a simple, functional internal website where employees can get information about the challenge, as well as information alongside any other mindfulness offerings you may have.

Once people sign up, you now have a list of interested employees that you can communicate with. Create a distribution list.
Provide encouragement along the way. Find the right balance of communicating and encouragement without flooding their inboxes. Start with a weekly email as first.
Chat – You can create a Teams, Slack, or similar channel to provide information and encouragement. Encourage community by having people post about their experiences.
- Tip – Get a small team of volunteers to manage this channel and populate it with content

Build Community

When we build a community of enthusiastic volunteers, we ensure that the program and activities will live beyond our own involvement.
Just like you’re excited about getting involved, others will be too. Don’t be shy asking for help! You’re providing them an outlet for their passion, plus, many of the things we need volunteers to do are actually great leadership development practices.