B. Pre-Session Materials

1. Creatnet Learning Loop- Exploring mindfulness for myself 

This is a  Creatnet Learning Loop based on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, an established psychometric self-assessment for mindfulness. Ruth Baer, a professor and mindfulness researcher based at Kentucky University, developed this scale along with her team in 2004. Mindfulness  enables us to detach from our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, sensations, and experiences.

Instructions:
1. Rate each of the following statements with the options that best describe your own opinion of what you feel is true for you.
2. You will get a detailed report on your journey as a leader after completing the learning loop on your email.
3. Engage in the learning loop by clicking here.       
4. To understand your report better you can read the Learning loop guide – Exploring mindfulness for myself, which you will receive along with the report.

*Creatnet Learning Loops are designed to help us provide a language of awareness for our current reality and learn. The purpose is to enable a self-feedback and peer feedback to create self and other awareness and learning. It aims to inform us about what we are able to be/do and diagnoses what we still need to understand and progress towards. In a non-judgemental way, we can bring authenticity and objectivity about one’s own uniqueness and move towards our pathways to progress. Read more about Creatnet Learning Loops.

2. Learning loop guide- Exploring mindfulness for myself.

Mindfulness is the quality of “awareness, cultivated by paying attention in a sustained and particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.” Metacognition is cognition about cognition. Mindfulness enables heightened metacognitive awareness i.e. the
awareness at the level of planning and regulating one’s cognition. Start an inquiry on your own being in the moment.

The Most Important Leadership Competencies

To view The Most Important Leadership Competencies, Click here

Put The First Things First, Stephen Covey

Put first things first. Focus on relationships over schedules. Focussing on schedules and time management are oriented at efficiency and control. Instead, Covey advises a change of perspective to view relationships over schedules, principles over values, leadership over management. This approach prioritises the important things in life.