What is MBSAT?
The position of MBSAT in the wider field of mindfulness programs
Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT) is a deep experiential learning program that provides the skills to master the challenges of an active, modern life with equanimity and clear foresight, thus allowing for sustainable wellbeing.
MBSAT differs markedly from other mindfulness-based programs given its secular orientation and practical, implementation-oriented approach. Its signature practices, terminology and language are designed specifically for an active, non-clinical target population. Hence MBSAT is exceptionally well positioned to assist people in the workplace and other non-clinical participants in improving the quality of their personal and professional lives.
The most frequent format is a training program of eight weekly sessions of approximately 2.5 hours each. The program combines Mindfulness and Computational Applied Neuroscience. Furthermore, it integrates the science of Positive Psychology, Behavioral Finance, Systems Dynamics, Behavioral Strategy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – CBT and Aikido principles. It is designed to help deal effectively with challenges in personal and professional life as well as in business and offers transformational tools that lead to gains on all three levels: individual, team and organization.
Learning Outcome:
Participants learn through deep continuous-time mindful, active inferring to cultivate their strategic awareness by becoming aware of their conditioning and personal patterns, gaining equanimity and a clear, open mind that allows to perceive, create and capitalize on personal and business opportunities for maximum potential and skillful outcomes.
With increased strategic awareness, you become a better decision maker by cutting through the noise in today’s ever changing and complex environment to achieve authentic well-being.
Strategic Awareness is the kind of awareness that is free from cognitive biases and conditioned unhelpful beliefs
and is infused with caring. MBSAT’s Deep Learning Continuous-Time Mindful Active Inferring sharpens our strategic awareness so we can make more accurate predictions and skillful decisions that lead to sustainable, authentic well-being.
The Essence of MBSAT
There are four essential impediments to a life of authentic wellbeing:
Agitation
In our times, people are almost constantly in a state of more or less evident or latent agitation. The lack of calm results from a series of factors, some of which are external in nature and some more personal, internal and self-provoked. It is a pervasive condition in our post-modern society with its characteristically high volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity – VUCA.
Reactivity
Our life unfolds most of the time in a reactive doing mode, driven by beliefs that hijack our minds and impact our integral human experience encompassing Body sensations, Emotions, Thoughts and Action impulses, i.e. BETA in MBSAT terminology. When our beliefs and biases are not adaptive to the changing conditions we experience, our BETA is negatively affected, and we tend to make decisions that we later regret. In addition, reactivity blinds us and precludes us from perceiving options that are available.
Self-Centeredness
We tend to live our lives with a self-serving BETA. When we engage with others, our impulses and tendencies push us to try to maximize our personal benefits, often without paying attention to the consequences for other people or the environment. Our maladaptive survival instincts stifle our capability for caring.
Lack of Flexibility
Finally, as a consequence of our self-serving BETA we become rigid and inflexible. Our unyielding attitudes limit our awareness and curtail our ability to find solutions. Thus, we tend to take decisions that follow a single perspective and fail to align with the interest of the different parties involved in our lives.
About MBSAT
The Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT) is the result of decades of professional, modern polymath academic training and business experience by the author of the protocol as a member of senior management with global organizations, business owner, investor, consultant, and coach to top management.
Our teachers are a highly diversified group of professionals.
To counteract these impediments MBSAT offers four essential concepts and skills:
Minding our BETA
We experience our lives through four interconnected doorways: our Body sensations, Emotions, Thoughts and Action impulses. In MBSAT we call these fourfold experiential doors BETA . With the MBSAT training method we learn to bring them into sync so that we gain more BALANCE and CALM, leading us to more sustainable wellbeing and success.
Minding Our Portfolio of Beliefs (POB)
Our BETA is driven by deep-rooted, often unconscious beliefs and biases. This can be a source of difficulties in our lives and distort our pathway. With MBSAT we learn to become aware, to uncover and transform unhelpful conditioning. We gain CLARITY in our minds and new perspectives for personal growth. Minding our POB allows us to realize our full potential.
Minding Our Social Experience (SOE)
We don’t live in a vacuum, but are all embedded in an integrated social and natural system. The social system is composed of family, people at work, friends, colleagues and other contacts. The natural system is composed of our immediate natural environment as well as the broader ecosystem of Planet Earth that is our home. MBSAT teaches us to mind our social and natural experience to build constructive and mutually enriching relationships in all contexts of life and to enhance the sustainability of our social and natural systems. As such we cultivate a sense of CARING for us, others, and our environment.
Minding the Strategic Adaptation of Our Life (SAL)
We live in a continuously changing world. Getting on in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous – VUCA environment requires a critical competence: the ability to respond skillfully and with foresight to continuous change by perceiving and actively inferring creative opportunities and options. In MBSAT we call this competence Strategic Adaptation in Life – SAL. We learn to cope mindfully and strategically with undesired changes, thus facilitating an active life that provides wellbeing for ourselves and others.