1. Lisa Capa, January 2014

2.  To understand:
 What is your attention?
 Why pay attention to your attention?
 What are the benefits of cultivating your
attention?
 What can you do to begin cultivating your
attention?
 What can you assess for the next 30 days?

4.  To tend to; to reach toward –Latin
 It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and
vivid form, of one out of what seem several
simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought.
--William James
 It is the focus of awareness on one thing at any
particular moment. –Lisa Capa
 It is the beam of awareness. –Daniel Goleman
Capa, L. (2014). The role of attention cultivation in leadership development for sustainable business: A narrative inquiry. California Institute of Integral
Studies, San Francisco, CA. Manuscript in preparation.
Goleman, D. (2013). Focus: The hidden driver of excellence. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
James, W. (2007). The principles of psychology, Vol.1 (1st ed.). New York: Cosimo Classics.

5. “My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
–William James
James, W. (2007). The principles of psychology, Vol.1 (1st ed.). New York: Cosimo Classics.

6.  Mindfulness is the awareness that emerges through
paying attention on purpose, in the present moment,
and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience
moment by moment –Jon Kabat-Zinn
 Flow is happiness in action –Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
 Eco-system awareness and action emphasizes the
well-being of the whole –Otto Scharmer
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2008). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience (1st ed.). New York, NY: Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
Kabat-Zinn, J. (2006). Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 10, 144–156.
doi:10.1093/clipsy.bpg016
Scharmer, O., & Kaufer, K. (2013). Leading from the emerging future from ego-system to eco-system economies. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, Inc.

7. Grounding and Center Exercise

8.  “I feel calmer than before I grounded and centered.”
 1 = strongly disagree
 2 = disagree
 3 = neutral
 4 = agree
 5 = strongly disagree