MindBridge Corporate Wellness Training exists to help individuals improve awareness and enjoyment at work and all other areas of life.
Our Full Engagement Training (FET) program is designed to offer employees useful mindfulness and meaning based psychological tools in a timely, efficient, and enjoyable manner, so they can thrive in the workplace.
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Training Benefits
Interactive Sessions
Personalized Approach
Effective Results
What is Full Engagement Training (FET)?
MindBridge Corporate Wellness Training exists due to the founder’s several decade’s exposure to numerous Japanese and foreign capital firms of all sizes and industries. During this time, a constant thread of workforce feedback has been that of struggles with distractions, stress, and lack of fulfillment.
This is the impetus for MindBridge’s Full Engagement Training (FET), which exists to help employees find focus and enjoyment in the workplace and other areas of life.
FET aims to help employees disengage from unhelpful thoughts and feelings, engage with their values, and thereby improve their focus and enjoyment of work and life.
FET is unique in the Japanese market due to its content, scope, and impact, and is beneficial for both management and staff. Though new to Japan, FET has seen massive success globally, particularly in the US and the UK.
It is based on techniques from the highly successful Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), but is distinctly an employee training program and not a form of therapy. FET is called foundational training, because the ability to pay attention and be engaged comes before all else.
How Full Engagement Training Works
Much of FET’s principles are derived from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT is a highly regarded and empirically proven mental health method.
Some things to keep in mind:
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While FET borrows from ACT, FET is training and not therapy. FET’s techniques include leveraging mindfulness to anchor attention in the present moment, enhancing awareness.
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Participants practice noticing their thoughts, moods, and bodily sensations, and identifying mental barriers like limiting beliefs, resentments and stressors. This is how we form mindfulness tools that we use to manage unwanted thoughts and feelings so we can stay engaged in what is important. We call this skill psychological flexibility.
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Values card sorts and values driven goal exercises are administered. The mindfulness component works with values-driven action as awareness helps align one's actions with core values, encouraging purpose, motivation and well being.
Why Full Engagement Training is Different
FET is unique in the industry for several reasons:
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While FET is proven to be successful for companies of all sizes globally, it is not just for the workplace. FET addresses life’s whole wellness picture; the domains of work, relationships, health, leisure, and personal growth. Employees appreciate that this is coming from their employer, and employers are benefitted by improved employee well being and performance.
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Another powerful factor in FET’s success is it’s use of targeting mindful tools. While a number of programs may incorporate meditation or mindful exercises--which are certainly good in their own right--FET in addition teaches the utilization of mindfulness based tools that help individuals manage unwanted thoughts or feelings.
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The mindfulness tools, when combined with the values driven exercises, are useful in helping participants focus and do what matters.
Who Benefits from Full Engagement Training?
Managers
FET’s workplace wellness benefits are numerous. Increased psychological flexibility helps managers and teams in the following ways:
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The mindfulness and values clarification components of FET can improve interpersonal skills, which are crucial for handling conflicts effectively.
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When teams in the workplace practice FET principles, it leads to improved communication and a more supportive team environment, facilitating enhanced team performance.
Employees
Employees benefit from FET in a number of ways:
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Through mindfulness and acceptance strategies, FET teaches employees how to manage stress by changing their relationship with their thoughts and emotions. Instead of struggling with or avoiding stressful thoughts and feelings, employees learn to acknowledge them without becoming overwhelmed, which can reduce overall stress levels.
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FET's emphasis on mindfulness helps employees improve their ability to concentrate and stay focused on their tasks. The promotion of values awareness means workers can more often connect what they are doing to their values, strengthening their engagement.
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FET fosters resilience by promoting better acceptance of challenges and setbacks as part of life.
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The method encourages life wellness balance by addressing all of life’s domains, setting healthy boundaries and practicing self-care, all key factors in preventing burnout.
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At work FET strategies can help prevent burnout by teaching employees how to manage their workload and stress more effectively.
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While FET is not therapy, it’s methods of helping with distractions and promoting calmness and awareness can reduce the likelihood and severity of stress related conditions.
Our Founder
David Price, Founder and Director of E&I
David Price has spent 30 years in the Japanese market, working for local and global firms as an employee, manager, division manager, and CEO level for startups and Fortune 500 organizations. He has been involved with hiring hundreds of staff.
David’s motivators for mental wellness related training are the experiences of and relationships with his market contacts during standard market conditions, and key events such as the great financial crisis.
David has a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Bellevue University. He is licensed as a Mental Health Counselor Associate through the state of Washington, and is a member of the American Counseling Association. David is experienced as a Trainer, Therapist, Counselor and Coach, utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Person Centered Therapy (PCT). He has three years as a crisis counselor. David is certified in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).
Evidence Based References
Below are a few of the many positive reviews of ACT in the workplace, the inspiration for Full Engagement Training:
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Atkins, P.W.B., & Styles, R. (2015). Mindfulness, identity, and work: Mindfulness training creates a more flexible sense of self. In P.W.B. Atkins & J. Reb (Eds.). Mindfulness in organizations: Foundations, research, and applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Atkins, P.W.B., & Reb, J. (Eds.). (2015). Mindfulness in organizations: Foundations, research, and applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Bellini, D, Presti, G, Ramaci, T & Santisi, G. (2019). Psychological Flexibility and Mindfulness as Predictors of Individual Outcomes in Hospital HealthWorkers. Frontiers in Psychology
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Bond, F. W., Flaxman, P. E., & Lloyd, J. (2016). Mindfulness and meditation in the workplace: An acceptance and commitment therapy approach. The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice., (February), 241–258.
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Lamb, Danielle & Cogan, Nicola. (2015). Coping with work-related stressors and building resilience in mental health workers: A comparative focus group study using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
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Lloyd, J., Bond, F. W. & Flaxman, P. (2017). Work-Related Self-Efficacy as a Moderator of the Impact of a Worksite Stress Management Training Intervention: Intrinsic Work Motivation as a Higher Order Condition of Effect. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 22(1), pp. 115-127. doi: 10.1037/ocp0000026
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Ly, K. H., Asplund, K., & Andersson, G. (2014). Stress management for middle managers via an acceptance and commitment-based smartphone application: A randomized controlled trial. Internet Interventions, 1, 95–101. doi: DOI10.1016/j.invent.2014.06.003
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Moran, D. J. (2015). Acceptance and Commitment Training in the Workplace. Current Opinion in Psychology, 2, 26-31.
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Noone S.J.. (2015). Promoting resilience in Carers: Using acceptance and mindfulness based interventions to support direct care staff. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 59, 17. doi:10.1111/jir.12214
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Wardley, M. N. J., Flaxman, P. E., & Gillanders, D. (2015). “ Feel the Feeling ”: Psychological practitioners ’ experience of acceptance and commitment therapy well-being training in the workplace. Journal of Health Psychology. doi:10.1177/1359105314557977