I am truly blessed. After I graduated from Marty Seligman’s Authentic Happiness Coaching course a few years ago, I was invited to join a group of coaches that wanted to meet twice a month to study and mastermind the applications of Positive Psychology in the workplace. Since then we (the Founder’s Group) have been meeting regularly. After four years we’ve become friends and worked together as colleagues.
Today our topic was “Savoring” and we talked about the book by the same name written by Fred Bryant. Savoring is a proceess where me mindfully engage in thoughts and behaviors that heighten enjoyment. We had great fun discussing how we can do more of it in the workplace - we can start a meeting by asking people to talk briefly about something good that happened in their lives since the last meeting, we can slow down in the middle of meeting when things are going well and say something like ” I really love when everybody participates like this, it’s a great feeling”, we can end a meeting with a word of gratitude or appreciation.
We can make a list of the “10 best things about working here.” We can listen carefully and mindfully when someone is speaking and acknowledge the strengths we hear. We can take a breath together. We can talk about a recent success and how good it feels.
The benefits of savoring - many. Puts us in the state of positive emotion and so reduces stress, builds psychological capital, increases our resilience, broadens our capacity for thinking and gives us a more favorable biochemistry.
The challenges of savoring activities in the workplace - you have to slow down, be mindful, inhabit the moment. And you have to buck the busy-ness culture and take that moment, even if you look foolish doing it.
Would love to know what you do to practice “savoring” in the workplace.
At the moment I am going to leave this computer and go savor my exercise class.
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Thank you. A
