 Are you here? Are you still here? Are you still here? Are you breathing? Are you breathing? Or you forgot to breathe? Don't forget to breathe. This activity is to work on yourselves. Don't talk. I want you to think and feel alone. This first activity is alone. Gather. Re-gather. Reconnect. Go deeper. This activity that we have just done is an activity that we will cover when we finish this workshop. This is an activity that we have just done right now. But I want you to forget about this activity because we will go back to it when we finish. And I am again going to ask you to do this next activity privately. This next activity that I am going to ask you to do I think it is very private and I don't want you to be sharing with anyone. The next activity is the activity number three. You have it there also in the slide. It's the same. You have the same in the slide as in your handouts. And what it says is rate your attention with a number from one which is the minimum to seven which is the maximum. And it is to the following items. Think about how much attention you give to your family and your closest friends. How much attention you give to your workmates. How much attention you give to your students. And how much attention do you give to yourselves. So from one minimum to seven. I am going to give you one minute. Is it okay? Don't share. Okay. The minute is over. Finished? Alright. I want to tell you that when I first did this activity myself I noticed how much difference there was between some of the items. I remember that for some of the items my numbers were really low and for some others my numbers went up to more than seven. Do you have the same feeling or do you have a different feeling? Yes. Same feeling. It doesn't have to be the same. Would you like to share your feeling about having these numbers? Do you learn anything from that? Do you become aware of something when you discover like for example your attention to some things go down to two or to three or maybe you have the same attention to everything in a balanced way. Do you learn something about yourselves when doing this? Yes? Good. Look. I'm going to ask you another activity which has nothing to do with what we've been doing. People usually think that mindfulness is sitting down, meditating, going far from the rest of the people and being alone and being just a meditator. Mindfulness has nothing to do with that. We have started by doing these I would say introspective activities but this is not mindfulness. There is only one part of it but there is a lot, a lot related to talking to others, communicating and being in the moment when you are communicating. So we're going to do now a third activity. But before we do it I want to show one slide if you pay attention to what we've been doing I started by asking about your intention and then I was asking about what? I moved from intention to attention. Intention, attention and now let's move to attitude shoshing. This is a graph, a symbol a writing symbol, a Japanese writing symbol which means attitude. Mindfulness is characterized by a particular attitude. This attitude has to do with acceptance has to do with openness has to do with curiosity and it has to do with love. This is also called beginner's mind. Have you ever heard of this expression beginner's mind? Not even in Spanish mente de principiante? Yes? So beginner's mind or mente de principiante is related to whatever you do in your life, do it as if it were the first time in your life you do it. Even though you know what may happen shift your perspective and adopt this attitude of openness, curiosity, lack of prejudice don't you have the impression that in this world so full of experts we have experts now in so many different fields so many experts everywhere well in a world like ours full of experts how much wisdom do you find? So having an attitude which is open, which is curious makes an old subject an old topic come alive again because you are the one who has changed there is a sentence below can someone read it? Can someone read it? In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities in the expert's mind there are few. So what happens when we are beginners our minds are open when we are experts when we know a lot about a topic we lose freshness we lose perspective so this is what you need to have in mind when we start practicing mindfulness so we have intention we have attention and we have these three terms okay are you bored? I'm going to ask you to do activity four for activity four you are going to discover that you have three questions I'm going to ask don't forget about that forget about this look at those slides you've got three questions there and we are going to do an activity now which is a very crazy activity to do are you still breathing? on the verge of the tears again and reconnect are your soles of your feet touching the floor? are you on the verge of the tear? okay how is your posture? is it upright? yes it is upright okay let's have an open attitude okay there is something important going on here so that's why we have this posture because this is so important so let's stay let's feel where we are let's close our eyes and let's breathe together one time so I'm going to guide you you close your eyes you have this posture which is tense but it is also relaxed so you are there in a balanced posture in between being tense but being relaxed your eyes are closed and you are here feeling your body sitting down in your chair let's take one deep breath together inhale exhale welcome back okay now I'm going to ask you three questions and the three questions that I'm going to ask you the three questions that I'm going to ask you are the questions that you have on the slide so when I ask you these questions I'm going to ask you to decide your level of attention or your degree of satisfaction and I'm going to do the same I'm going to ask you to think from one to seven but we're going to do this with another technique and this technique is called systemic coaching or systemic photograph have you heard of it? so I want you to imagine that here this wall is one this wall is one this wall is seven okay so I'm going to ask you these three questions I want you to consider where you are in relation to the question and I'm going to ask you to put yourself to place your body where you think you are do you think you are in four right in the middle do you think you are in three in two so everybody stand up and I'm going to ask you a question and you don't know the question that I'm going to ask you because you're not reading the slide because I will be reading the question for you so I want you to tell me which is normally your level of attention to a conversation if you think that your level of attention usually goes down you move to one if you think that your level of attention is high you move to seven okay so your level of attention when you are in a conversation where are you okay I want you to see where you are in relation to the space but I also want you to take a look at where you are right now in this precise moment in relation to the rest of your partners here okay which is the wall which means one okay and the wall which means seven alright I have a very nice picture from here I have to say let's go to the second question don't read I will read it for you breathe inhale exhale second question how often do you realize that your attention has moved away from whatever you're doing okay now I want you to consider where you are now in relation to where you were before this is another nice picture as well this technique is called systemic photograph let's go to the third question one deep breath and be prepared for my third question what is your degree of satisfaction regarding finding the time to work on the things that are most important for you most times okay how do you feel how do you feel this moving in the space helps you understand on a different level where you are and how you feel yes look at where you were in the first question look at where you were in the second question and look at where you are right now and do you have now the same people around you in this third question no it changes a lot okay go back to seats but now different seats don't sit in your places go to a different seat I'm going to ask you now to go to the next activity you have the next activity also on the slides you have the next activity also in your handouts but you don't need the handouts if you don't want to and the next activity says it is an activity to do in pairs I'm going to ask you to think about what you learned from this activity that we have just done and now I want you to think about what you think what you believe mindfulness is and what do you think it is for and finally we've been talking a lot about attention I want you to consider also in your pairs what happens when attention fails so these three questions are for you to consider in pairs I'm going to give you three minutes I will play the gong to mark the beginning of the activity and then I will play the gong to mark the end of the activity I want you to share with your partners how you feel regarding the activity and also answer the rest of the questions yes, great excuse me excuse me excuse me did you hear the gong where is your attention okay