For organizations

People who can stay calm and focused under pressure make for healthier, better working organizations. Dr. Yowon Choi offers mindfulness programs, workshops and coaching for companies, public institutions, schools and other organizations, in English or Korean, on location or online. Every program is shaped around your people and your goals.

Who we work with

• Companies, from start-ups to international corporations
• The public sector: government bodies, embassies and international organizations
• Schools and universities: for teachers, staff, students and parents
• Hospitals and care organizations: for doctors, nurses and other health professionals
• Non-profit organizations and foundations

What we offer

• Introductions and talks: an introduction to mindfulness for a team meeting, a staff day or a conference.
• Workshops: half-day or full-day workshops on stress and resilience, preventing burnout, mindful communication, or focus and well-being at work.
• The 8-week MBSR program: the full Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course for a group of employees, or a shorter program based on it.
• Mindful leadership: individual coaching and group programs for managers and leaders.
• Support for international staff: coaching for employees, and their partners, who are settling into life and work in Korea.
• Schools: mindfulness for teachers and staff, and talks for parents, for example about gifted and twice-exceptional children.

Why mindfulness at work

Mindfulness training, and MBSR in particular, has been studied in many scientific studies. It can help people handle stress better, lower the risk of burnout, and improve attention, emotional balance and the way colleagues work together. It is practical: participants learn short exercises they can use during the working day.

About Dr. Yowon Choi

Dr. Yowon Choi is a psychologist and certified MBSR teacher with more than 20 years of experience in Korea, the United States, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

• Organizations: corporate trainer in stress reduction and well-being for companies including LG, SK and ING, and mindfulness-based coaching and supervision for professionals in health care and education, in Europe and Korea.
• MBSR: trained at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, where MBSR began, with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki F. Santorelli. Certified MBSR teacher of the Swiss MBSR Association; she has helped train new MBSR teachers at Radboud University Medical Center.
• Meditation: more than three decades of practice in the Korean Seon and Vipassana traditions.
• Research: a PhD in psychology on happiness and mindfulness; senior researcher at Seoul National University, and researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen.
• Languages and cultures: teaches in English and Korean, and is at home in both Korean and Western work cultures.

Her full background

How it works

1. First conversation: we talk about your organization, your people and what you hope to achieve.
2. Proposal: you receive a program tailored to your group, with format, schedule and costs.
3. The program: on location in Korea or online, in English or Korean.
4. Looking back: together we look at what the program brought, and what could come next.

Get in touch

Use the contact form and choose “For my organization”, or email mail@hellomindfulness.com. A few lines about your organization and what you are looking for are enough to start.