Learn to Lead with Calm, Courage, and Compassion

Mindful Leadership Skills Training

Mindful leadership is based on developing self-awareness and cultivating self-regulation skills, in order to be able to lead others most effectively. 

Being a mindful leader also requires understanding others’ perspectives, communicating effectively, and inspiring others. Hoos Well has partnered with eMindful, a leading mindfulness training provider, to offer a Mindful Leadership program at no cost to leaders and aspiring leaders at UVA who are enrolled in the UVA Health Plan or UPG Anthem Health Plan.

UVA Mindful Leadership Program Overview

  • Six weekly, 30-minute interactive webinars
  • Led by an expert teacher in eM Life, a mindfulness platform 
  • Goal: Introduce mindfulness and its pertinence to well-being, team culture, performance, and UVA leadership competencies. 
  • You may participate in eM Life's live Mindful Leadership Series or the on-demand program by clicking the links below.
Learn more about eM Life Sign up for a free eM Life account Learn more and register for the live, 6-week Mindful Leadership Series in eM Life Participate in the Mindful Leadership program on-demand

UVA Mindful Leadership Program Curriculum

Through this Mindful Leadership Program, you will build mindfulness skills and competencies to show up authentically and lead effectively. This program will help you:

  • Increase self-awareness and self-regulation
  • Improve collaboration and problem-solving
  • Cultivate an inclusive environment
  • Manage challenging situations with more grace and ease.

In addition to the mindfulness skills that you will develop as leaders, you will find the leadership competencies for UVA's Cornerstone Program and UVA Health's ASPIRE values woven into each session. Expand the sections to below to read a description of each session and how it aligns with UVA leadership competencies and values.  

  • 1. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS MINDFUL LEADERSHIP?

    Mindful leadership is needed now more than ever. Leading effectively during times of change and uncertainty requires leaders to refocus efforts and align values and competencies to what matters most. Mindful leaders can meet new challenges by fostering inclusive environments and leading with courage and respect.

    • UVA Leadership Competencies: Strategic Mindset, Interpersonal Savvy, Values Differences, Organizational Savvy, Situational Adaptability
    • UVA Values: Stewardship, Respect

  • 2. DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP PRESENCE

    Leadership presence is the ability to be with people and situations as they are. With mindfulness, learn to adapt, show up authentically and listen attentively, and drive purpose and results with professionalism, integrity, and excellence leading to increased trust and ease in your relationships.

    • UVA Leadership Competencies: Strategic Mindset, Drives Results, Interpersonal Savvy, Values Differences, Organizational Savvy, Drives Vision and Purpose, Demonstrates Self-Awareness, Situational Adaptability
    • UVA Values: Accountability, Stewardship, Professionalism, Integrity, Respect, Excellence

  • 3. CULTIVATING A LEARNING MINDSET

    A learning mindset helps leaders see day-to-day challenges as opportunities to improve professionalism and collaboration by practicing “beginners mind” to avoid falling into “already knowing” the answers. A learning mindset leads to greater self-awareness and potential for increased creativity, diverse thinking, and problem-solving.

    • UVA Leadership Competencies: Demonstrates self-awareness, Situational Adaptability
    • UVA Values: Accountability, Stewardship, Professionalism, Integrity, Excellence

  • 4. GAINING CLARITY

    Clarity is seeing what’s actually happening and not mistaking one’s own thoughts as the full story. With mindfulness, you become aware of your thought patterns and habits of reactivity, leading to continual improvement and learning and stronger collaboration and decision making.

    • UVA Leadership Competencies: Demonstrates Self-Awareness, Situational Adaptability
    • UVA Values: Accountability, Stewardship

  • 5. INCREASING SELF-REGULATION

    Emotional Intelligence or the ability to recognize and manage one’s emotions is key to effective leadership. With mindfulness, you increase awareness of emotions and learn how to manage emotional reactions to be honest, open, and fair in relationship with others.

    • UVA Leadership Competencies: Demonstrates Self-Awareness, Situational Adaptability
    • UVA Values: Stewardship, Professionalism, Integrity, Respect

  • 6. CULTIVATING FLEXIBILITY

    Constant change is common in today’s landscape and having the ability to shift readily helps leaders and teams thrive. With mindfulness, you learn to focus and shift attention, expanding your capacity to responsibly and carefully manage resources and commitment to continual improvement and learning.

    • UVA Leadership Competencies: Strategic Mindset, Organizational Savvy, Situational Adaptability
    • UVA Values: Stewardship, Excellence

  • 7. BUILDING SELF-CONFIDENCE

    A self-confident leader inspires, energizes, and motivates others to bring their best selves to work each day. Learn how mindfulness helps you develop the self-awareness and self-trust to acknowledge and assume responsibility for successes and setbacks and lead a team that thrives.

    • UVA Leadership Competencies: Demonstrates Self-Awareness
    • UVA Values: Accountability

  • 8. DEVELOPING AN ACTION PLAN FOR SUCCESS

    Integrate what you have learned by developing a plan to use mindful leadership skills to align with UVA leadership competencies and UVA Health’s ASPIRE values. 

    • UVA Core Competencies: Drives Results, Demonstrates Self-Awareness
    • UVA Values: Stewardship, Excellence
The course identified key areas that I could cultivate through mindfulness. I liked using the lens of leadership to apply the mindfulness techniques and mindset. Participant in UVA's Mindful Leadership Program