Happiness: Mastering HEAL for Life

Salient Features

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

1. Recognize the importance of mindfulness and its practices for day-to-day living and enhancing well-being.
2. Explore practices that reduce overthinking and fight emotional reactivity in everyday life.
3. Learn techniques to enhance productivity and concentration levels for better holistic performance.
4. Understand and experience different tools to manage physical and mental health amidst everyday stressors.
5. Develop positive capacities to experience greater meaning and purposefulness at work.
6. Build deeper self-reflection to identify key barriers and resolutions in developing positive relationships.
7. Appreciate the relevance of Indian Wisdom traditions for developing a 'spiritual way of life'.
    

PROGRAMME THEMES

The programme will focus on the following core themes:

1. Enhancing Well-Being Through Mindfulness and Yoga
2. Reducing Overthinking, Stress and Reactivity
3. Boosting Productivity and Concentration
4. Managing Emotions
5. Creating Positive Thinking
6. Discovering Meaning & Purpose
7. Building Positive Relationships
8. Re-discovering Ethics Through a Well-Being Lens
    

PEDAGOGICAL METHODS

1. Experiential Practices: Mindfulness Practices, Oneness Meditation,
2. Scientific Instruments: Character Strengths, Personality, Stress Assessments
3. Case Studies: Corporate Employees, Meaning at Work Caselets
4. Insight Activities: Pleasant Events Visualization, Emotional Intelligence
5. Self-Reflection Journaling: Anger Analysis, Job Role Satisfaction Assessment 
6. Group Activities: Strengths Spotting, Appreciative Enquiry Practices

Uniqueness

UNIQUE FEATURES

1. Scientifically Proven:

Most wellness solutions either have little scientific backing or have predominantly been tested with a western audience. HEAL has consistently proven to effectively uplift individuals on scales of Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, Happiness, and Well-being.

2. Experiential:

While most well-being corporate programs are pre-dominantly theoretical in nature, HEAL offers an experiential deep-dive into the nature of self with long-term practices that become integral to life and living.

3. India-Centric:

Majority of wellness solutions emanate from a western context creating dissonance and lack of relatability with the Indian audience. HEAL has been designed keeping in mind the Indian context and traditions with several key themes emanating from ancient Indian wisdom.
 

SUPPORT PROVIDED

1. Post-Program Habit Building Support:
Programme participants will be provided with recordings of practices and a 6-week practice workbook to follow post the program. Additionally, 2 optional follow-up calls will be made available to discuss participant queries during the 6-week journey.
 

2. End-of-Day Reflection Sessions:
Post the day proceedings of the programme, the program faculty will host an evening get-together to discuss group queries and discussions about personal and professional well-being.
 

3. Extension to Well-Being for Teams and Families:
While discussions will focus on enhancing the personal and professional lives of participants, the techniques have been simplified and easy to implement for the participants to cascade it to people close to them to help them also benefit from the learnings.

Credentials

HEAL IMPACT ANALYSIS

Programme and courses based on the HEAL concepts have been taught by the programme faculty at various locations and in different contexts. Overall, there is solid evidence that the program has a positive impact on aspects related to health, emotions and authentic living. 
 

PROGRAM FACULTY
Prof. Vishal Gupta (Faculty Chair)
Professor in the Organizational Behaviour Area at IIM Ahmedabad, 15 years of training and research experience, covered by top newspapers in India, and is widely known for award winning leadership skills course on the Coursera platform: https://www.coursera.org/learn/leadershipskills. Vishal’s full profile: https://www.iima.ac.in/~vishal

Shishir Arya

Shishir is the founder of HEAL Labs, an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, institute medalist from IIT Roorkee and a certified mindfulness trainer. 

Over the past several years, Shishir has introduced Happiness related themes to 1000+ individuals across institutions, corporate and colleges globally. He has taught multiple courses pertinent to mindfulness and emotional intelligence as a visiting professor for an audience varying from undergraduates to executives at institutions like IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Jammu and Institute of Rural Management, Anand. He has also worked with educators and executives in the Delhi and Bihar Government building assets and customized trainings for stress reduction, happiness etc.

Shishir currently serves as the Director of ‘The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction’ (MBSR) teacher training program with Imagine Mindfulness , a registered worldwide non-profit. Shishir's full profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shishir-arya/

TESTIMONIALS

1. “Brilliant program which uses powerful combination of theory, surveys, action-plans in a safe space but very interactive setting. It feels like the program is tailored for myself as there is so much to discover about oneself across the sessions. Highly recommend it to everyone!” - Manager, Big 4 Consulting Firms
    
2. “The sessions conducted were useful for everyone to cool their minds. Such type of programs must be conducted in every training program” – Deputy Director, Bihar State Government
    
3. “We thank you for conducting the session for the Principals of Delhi Public Schools during the offline Leadership programme organised by the Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) of the Delhi Public School Society (DPSS). The session was rewarding and much appreciated by the participants of the programme. We look forward to more such associations in the future.” - Executive Director, HRDC, Delhi Public School Society
    
4. “From the theory sessions, to the exercises, to the PLPS, and to the final examination, your course design was great and above all this, your teaching style with the conviction in the subject was exemplary. Right from the word go, I found myself deeply attached to this course, and it was only because of your teaching. May I thank you for conducting such a great course where missing two sessions due to my sickness made me feel extremely unlucky. Many thanks Sir!” - A PGPX participant of 2018-19 batch, IIM Ahmedabad 
    
5. “We often talk about serendipity and I guess that's how I got started on this mindfulness journey. This was the first "community" activity that I was involved in, since the onset of the pandemic and I am truly grateful that I did. I cannot recall a single session when I did not come out of the same smiling/feeling happy and that's the power of this community that is being built here. I think this is one of the best investments of my time that I made in a long long time and I shall forever cherish it!” – Associate, Leading Global Financial Services Firm

Who Should Attend

This programme is relevant for professionals at all levels and is specifically targeted to aspiring as well as practicing leaders across all walks of life who seek to enhance their well-being and leadership capabilities.
 

Specifically, we extend a warm invitation to:

• Leaders and HR managers looking to build a happier workplace
• Trainers, life coaches, counselors working towards employee well-being
• Professionals seeking next level of personal and professional growth
• Any HR & OB practitioner looking to introduce well-being in his/her organisation