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Professors argue that engaging in the arts during medical school, whether through required courses or extracurricular activities, is valuable in developing essential skills that doctors need, like critical thinking and observational and communication skills, as well as bias awareness and empathy.

The ReSource Project and the Publications

Over the last decades, isolation, stress, and psychological tensions have been steadily increasing in our society. Mental training can alter stress responses, physical health, resilience, attention, perception, emotional experience, and social behaviour. Evidence for theses results is based on subjective reports of past participants and observed behavioural changes, as well as observed changes in brain function and structure. Moreover, health factors, such as peripheral autonomic responses, stress hormones, and immune parameters were significantly changed after training.

In contrast to most previous studies of just few months, the ReSource project will be conducted over a period of one year and will cover a wide range of practices intended to enhance cognitive and socio-affective skills.

The ReSource project consists of three consecutive modules: Presence, Perspective, and Affect.

The Presence Module trains mindful attention to internal mental and physical processes. The Perspective module focuses on socio-cognitive abilities, such as insight into the nature of the mind and self, and also the ability to assume the perspective of others. The Affect module focuses on constructive ways of dealing with difficult emotions, and works to cultivate prosocial motivations and positive emotions such as compassion.

A regular update of scientific publications of the ReSource Project is available on the homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Social Neurosciences.

Research links mindfulness meditation with everything from metacognition to cortical thickness in the brain, says APS Fellow Tania Singer. She and other psychological scientists impart the latest findings from the science of paying attention.

Tang’s research on a particular form of mindfulness training, integrative body–mind training (IBMT), suggests that five 20-minute training sessions may be enough to improve attention and cause changes in underlying brain activity.

These findings are tantalizing, but Tang noted that future research should examine the effects of different types of mindfulness programs to isolate the specific components of mindfulness.

It’s exactly this kind of isolation on which APS Fellow Tania Singer (Max Planck Institute for Higher Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany) has focused her efforts.

In an ongoing effort called the ReSource Project (see www.resource-project.org/en/home.html), Singer and colleagues have been trying to tease apart the various cognitive, affective, and metacognitive processes involved in practices that people generally associate with “mindfulness meditation.”

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A break in conscious work can facilitate problem solving during a second attempt.

https://sites.northwestern.edu/markbeemanlab/files/2015/11/CollierBeeman_ToT_JPS2012-repjo3.pdf

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A cognitive neuroscience lab at Northwestern University. Dedicated to study the component processes and behaviours that relate to creative problem solving.

Provides research into: Problem Solving with Insight; Intuition; Performance Pressure.

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Recent research indicates that school burnout among adolescents is shared with parental work burnout. Children of parents suffering from burnout are more likely than others to experience school burnout.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119074754.htm

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Recent studies have shown a distinct change in the brains of meditators. The results confirmed the strong emotional and physical benefits of this practice.

Mentioning a research by a group of Harvard Neuroscientists, led by Sara Lazar, Ph.D

Business Healthy is a City of London led initiative providing City businesses with expert led workshops, member forums and a central resource hub through our website. Business Healthy aims to bring together businesses in The City to ignite and support a positive change in the health & wellbeing of their workforce.

How is treating employees well working out for Google?

And not just Google, but also others following the lead: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.blueprintinteriors.com/2017-top-five-wellbeing-and-happiness-workplace-trends/amp/ http://www.hrreview.co.uk/analysis/analysis-reward/how-googles-perks-alleviate-stress-and-boost-employees-morale/51975

The science behind humanity's need for community

Cellular biologist, Dr Bruce Lipton explains how ‘survival of the fittest’ theories have led to a breakdown of community and that our world is not meant to be a battle ground. http://upliftconnect.com/why-we-need-a-community/

From Amtrak to Facebook, it seems like everyone is launching an artist-in-residence program. But can art and commerce thrive together?

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There's a creepy transformation taking over our cities, says architecture critic Justin Davidson. From Houston, Texas to Guangzhou, China, shiny towers of concrete and steel covered with glass are cropping up like an invasive species. Rethink your city's anatomy as Davidson explains how the exteriors of building shape the urban experience -- and what we lose when architects stop using the full range of available materials.

Canary Wharf architecture is like an airline food. Impoverished and barely nutritional.

Employers can retain their employees in 2017 by offering better compensation, flexibility, career mobility, and learning opportunities.

Staff retention; key to success going forward.

A Few Case Studies

British Gas introduced back care workshops for employees in physically demanding parts of the business. Almost 300 employees participated, and the company saw a reduction in back pain related absence of 43 percent, creating a business benefit of £1,660 per participating employee. In fact, for every £1 invested in the workshop, the company received a return of £31.

A manufacturer with 20,000 employees made cost savings of £11m over 3 years due to savings of 1% absenteeism reduction. For every £1 pound invested in health policy development and management training saved almost £53.

A manufacturer with 200 employees funded occupational health services and activities alongside counselling and annual health screenings at a total cost of £7,150. For every £1 invested £11 was saved on injury claims from employees.

A Public Sector transport organisation with approximately 400 employees introduced a sickness absence management plan alongside support and return to work interviews. The occupational health services provided cost £16,000 per annum and resulted in absenteeism falling by 70% between 1999 and 2003. Staff on long term sickness leave fell from 16 to 3 days at any one time.

(Health at Work: Economic Evidence Report 2016)

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