Skills for Managing Organizational Change

Mike Mombrea, MA, MFT & Steve Flannes, PhD.

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Thoughts

Feelings

Body

Resistance

Mike

Steve

One-pointed

attention

Awareness and

Acceptance

Focus = Inward

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• Activates

• Let’s have less of this

Sympathetic NS

• Moderates & calms

• Let’s have more of this

Parasympathetic

NS

Chronic stress process Org change

Uncertainty

Ambiguity

Fear of future

Facing conflict

Maintaining

quality

Power

differential

Continual SNS “firing”

External Focus

Software support

Executive goals

Resource considerations:

$ and human capital

Task forces

Mission statements

OD/ HR specialists

Our peers

Mindfulness practice:

Body scan

Following the breath

Brief breathing exercise

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Internal Focus

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Anything new or

surprising…?

Trigger cues ?

Resistance ? Apply

mindfulness

Case study

Mindful practices: ………………………

Benefits: reduction of emotional reactivity, cognitive improvement, moderate conflict

A Mindful Day

Check-in: awareness and acceptance

Begin working

Small check-in

Working…

Set timer for check-in

Trigger cues surfacing ?

cognitions

emotions

body sensations

Apply favorite mindful practice

Working…

Mindfulness exercise as work day ends: awareness and acceptance

All day

long….be

open to

awareness and

acceptance