Slo Breathworks wants to get your perspective on the current state of workplace wellness.
To uncover how slow breaths become pillars of workplace well-being.
Methodology
Slo Breathworks is conducting 15 in-depth interviews with CSR Leaders, HR Directors and Recruiters to uncover insights around workplace wellbeing during the months of May and June to be used as market research and to inform an assessment to help organizations develop a breathing culture.
It would be a honor for you to be one of the leaders to inform this research. Fill in the form with your information if you are interested, or if you think someone else would want to be part of the conversation about building breathing cultures, please let me know.
The Project’s Scope
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Gauge the value add of employee wellness to business objectives
Get a baseline of what current workplace wellness programs entail and how they are intertwined with overall company culture
Uncover how slow breaths can become a pillar of workplace well-being
Discover how to build a breathing culture within corporate culture (“corpus = body”)
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The information gathered during the project will inform the creation of an assessment to help organizations get to know their unique breathing needs that go beyond the basics.
Slo Breathworks wants to become an authority on how to build a breathing culture in the workplace, and contribute to transforming workplace well-being to center humanity.
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What does “workplace wellness” mean to your organization?
How is your wellness program structured within your organization?
Is it office specific or regional?
How does DEI fit with or interact at wellness and vice versa?
How do you define success for your wellness programs? What are the metrics you use and who creates them in the organization?
What type of wellness programming do you currently offer and what is your criteria for selecting facilitators?
Why Sarah wants to build breathing cultures
It is so easy to forget to breathe when we as individuals and organizations are busy creating, communicating, and collaborating since the nervous system is wired to allow the automatic process of breathing to go unnoticed.
But, it is is in the act of noticing the absence of the breath that business can shift away from the usual to unusual. By consciously breathing, businesses can reimagine the status quo from a place of tolerance, innovation, and curiosity. Hello regenerative business!
You can learn more about Sarah’s education and experience in business, mindfulness, and sustainabilility here. Also, if we aren’t connected on LinkedIn, let’s connect.
Conscious breathing at work can ignite focus and drive innovation.
Slow breathing activates the rest-and-digest nervous system, which communicates with your brain, reminding it to relax and release endorphins to combat cortisol. Not to mention, conscious breaths increase activity in the regions of the brain associated with executive function and creativity, even after just a few minutes.
You can learn more about the benefits of slow breathing via Slo Breathworks’ Substack.
Click here to check out this 2023 Nature Scientific Report study.
Four other neurobiological benefits include:
Greater emotional regulation
Increased innovation
Clear and effective decision-making
More ease when entering difficult conversations