692: Mindful Innovation: Impacting Individual and Collective Flourishing (12331)

The overarching premise of this symposium is to underscore the importance of mindfulness practices amongst stakeholders, especially people attempting creative innovations, both social and of other sorts, in the context of today’s polycrisis, the intersecting set of civilization threatening crises now facing businesses and other institutions. Mindfulness has the ability to ignite positive changes its practitioners through increased self-transcendence and an orientation towards the good of the whole, whether organizational or socio-ecological, which means, that mindfulness is beneficial to its practitioners in multiple settings. Mindful awareness of what is happening now, in this context, we argue is essential to understanding when, where, and how innovations are needed and can take place. Such innovations need not always be technological. Sometimes they are social, requiring new ways of interacting and engaging in and outside of the workplace to cope with the myriad of issues now facing businesses and all other institutions.