In Episode 232, I speak with speaker, consultant, mindfulness trainer and PhD, Larissa Bartlett. Larissa's research spans workplace mental health, behaviour change, wellbeing and mindfulness. She teaches mindfulness in community settings and for organisations and offers consulting and contract research services that aim to improve mental health and wellbeing. In this wonderful conversation we discuss the critical need to create a space between a stimulus and a response, to help make better decisions and live a happier and healthier life. This is a wonderful conversation, not to be missed.
Larissa Bartlett is The Mind Games Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania's Menzies Institute for Medical Research, having completed 3 years postdoctoral studies as the ISLAND Research Fellow at the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. She studies the effects of organisational policies and practices on workplace culture and mental health, the influence of behavioural and lifestyle factors on brain health, and the role of personal resources, such as mindfulness and psychological capital, on health and wellbeing, social relationships and work performance. She has published over 20 peer reviewed articles in quality research journals and frequently speaks about her research at scientific, public health and community events.
Larissa is authorised to teach the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course, by the Mindfulness Training Institute of Australia and New Zealand. She offers mindfulness courses, retreats and bespoke programs for organisations wanting to improve workplace culture and individuals seeking to build cultivate a deeper understanding of mindfulness to support their professional work, self-efficacy, resilience, and to live their best lives.
Larissa has completed contracts evaluating workplace mindfulness programs in a range of different industry sectors, including: the Australian Department of Veterans Affairs, Snowy Hydro, the Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet and Nexus Hospitals. She is currently contracted by Victoria University to co-develop a measure of Organisational Systems, Functioning and Capacity (the FACTSS), and by the Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies at Monash University to progress the development of a measure of observable mindful behaviours (the OMM).
She has personally experienced a high level of stress and anxiety, and knows the incredible power of mindfulness to help create the space between the potential source of stress and the response. It has helped her in every area of life, and it can help you too. Enjoy...
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