Workplace Mindfulness
Meet your work with more presence, more clarity, more room to breathe.
With Andrew Safer, mindfulness teacher & author
Your attention is the most contested resource in the modern workplace. The pings never stop. Priorities compete. Uncertainty sits underneath every decision. Conversations get harder, not easier, the faster things move — and somewhere in the middle of it, you're still expected to think clearly and choose well.
Workplace Mindfulness doesn't ask you to step away from any of this. It teaches you how to be in it differently. Through practical teaching and authentic mindfulness practice, you'll learn to steady your attention, meet stress and uncertainty without being run by them, and create a pause before you react.
This isn't mindfulness as an escape hatch from work. It's mindfulness as a way of meeting work — awake, resourced, and whole.
What you will learn
Through the programme, participants explore how mindfulness can help them meet the everyday realities of working life.
Choose your learning pathway
Available as an individual learning journey or as a complete programme for organisations.
Awareness in the Midst of Everyday Work
Bring mindfulness into the everyday realities of working life. 90 minutes per session.
- 01 — Evidence of mindfulness in the workplace
- 02 — Attention in the age of digital distraction
- 03 — Seeing the big picture, beyond the details
- 04 — Navigating stress, uncertainty and resilience
- 05 — The power of pausing
- 06 — Building respectful relationships
Mindfulness in Action
Take mindfulness from awareness into intentional action. 90 minutes per session.
- 07 — Responding instead of reacting
- 08 — Joining vision and practicality
- 09 — Mindfulness for innovation and problem solving
- 10 — Tying it all together
Module 1 + 2, Together
From establishing the foundations to applying mindfulness more deeply into professional life.
- All of Module 1: foundations & everyday awareness
- All of Module 2: mindfulness in action
- Electronic kit folder & e-book included
- ZEN Institute Certificate of Completion
Workplace Mindfulness for Organisations
Bring greater attention, resilience and awareness into the way your people work. A complete 10-session organisational learning programme, customised in consultation with your organisation while retaining the core learning journey.
For organisations with different group sizes, multiple cohorts, or specific customisation requirements, please contact ZEN Institute for a tailored proposal.
Enquire about corporate programmesMindfulness across professional settings
Andrew Safer's programmes have been delivered across diverse professional environments, adapted to the needs of different participant groups.
Royal Newfoundland Constabulary
A 10-session Mindfulness in Policing programme, plus an introductory session, delivered to uniformed officers and civilian participants.
Memorial University
A 10-session Workplace Mindfulness programme delivered to engineering and work-placement students.
- 65% improvement dealing with stressful situations
- 64% improvement pausing & interrupting worry patterns
- 53% improvement in self-critical responses
Canadian Health Organisation
A four-session programme for 14 managers, exploring mindfulness, stress, decision-making and respectful communication.
Andrew has also co-delivered a four-workshop mindfulness training series for members of the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador and engineering students, exploring stress and uncertainty, innovation and problem solving, respectful relationships, and digital distraction.
What participants say
"Can focus on current task; not worry about other things."
"Compassion in the foreground has a positive impact on attitude."
"Learning how to be in the present moment. I find I get distracted really easily and my mind tends to wander, so having a way to bring myself back is really great."
"Helps me remain calm, especially during stressful situations."
Included with your programme
Your learning continues well beyond each session.
Electronic learning kit
A collection of quotations, an overview of corporate mindfulness adoption and outcomes, synopses and quotes from Managing the Unexpected, Awake at Work and The Resilient Culture, plus materials to support your developing practice and links to Andrew Safer's articles.
Mindfulness in the Workplace (e-book)
An e-copy of Andrew's book, to support continued learning and mindfulness practice throughout and beyond the programme.
"This book is indispensable for understanding how mindfulness can foster sanity in our lives." — Michael Carroll, author of Awake at Work and The Mindful Leader
Certificate of Completion
Participants who successfully complete the programme receive a ZEN Institute Certificate of Completion, recognising the Workplace Mindfulness pathway completed with Andrew Safer. Participants completing the Workplace Mindfulness for Organisations programme also receive an individual Certificate of Completion.
- Awareness in the Midst of Everyday WorkModule 1 · 6 Sessions
- Mindfulness in ActionModule 2 · 4 Sessions
- Complete JourneyModules 1+2 · 10 Sessions
Certificates recognise programme completion and do not constitute professional accreditation or certification as a mindfulness teacher or trainer.
Course schedule
Choose the cohort and timing that suits you.
One Class Time, Wherever You Join
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All sessions take place on Tuesdays. Times shown apply to the January–March 2027 cohort.
Meet Your Trainer
Andrew Safer
Andrew Safer has been practising mindfulness for more than five decades and has devoted many years to bringing mindfulness into everyday life and professional environments.
His work has included mindfulness programmes for organisations and professional communities across areas such as policing and engineering, with a particular focus on mental health.
Andrew is the author of Mindfulness in the Workplace: Cultivating Well-Being at Work and Anxiety, Stress & Mindfulness: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Wellness. His teaching brings together long-standing personal practice with practical applications for contemporary working life.
Not by doing more. By bringing greater awareness to what is already in front of you.
Workplace Mindfulness with Andrew Safer