Warming Up Your Workplace
Designed by BearmoreDo you walk into work feeling on guard?
Head into work with a warm and friendly vibe. A morning of baking, an act of kindness for someone you work with, sitting down and eating together, and an open awareness meditation.
The runsheet
Bake something to share
Cooking (mindful)Forty minutes baking a small batch of something to give away. Biscuits, cookies, scones, brownies, sourdough rolls, banana bread, sausage rolls all work. The point is the giving away: you are not making it for yourself, you are making it for someone whose Tuesday will be slightly better when you turn up with the box.
40 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing cooking (mindful) before acts of kindness
There's a useful connection here because nurturing energy from cooking can extend into caring acts, keeping you in a giving, thoughtful mindset.
Kindness for a workmate
Acts of kindnessTen minutes doing one act of kindness for someone you work with. While the biscuits cool, this is the time for the small move: a one-line note of thanks for the colleague who has been having a hard week, a real smile to the boss, getting a small task done for someone else.
10 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing acts of kindness before eating (mindful)
There's a useful connection here because mindful eating afterwards can feel like another act of care, extending any nurturing energy inward.
Eating mindfully together
Eating (mindful)Twenty minutes either sitting down to share what you baked or making the small trip to deliver it. The food is the excuse; the conversation is the point.
20 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing eating (mindful) before open awareness
There's a useful connection here because the present-moment attention from mindful eating can flow into open awareness practice.
Meditation
Open awarenessTen minutes of meditation before the day's first hard conversation, practicing the curious and aware mind state.
10 min activityTime well spent.
1h 36m spent doing something good for yourself.
The breakdown
Burst evaluation
Wellbeing focus
About this Burst
Ted Lasso (who this Burst was inspired by) treats small, steady warmth at work as a leadership move rather than a softness. This Burst is a morning routine that is warm without being saccharine: forty minutes baking a small batch of something to give away, ten minutes doing one act of kindness for someone you work with, twenty minutes sitting down to share what you baked (or to deliver it), and a closing meditation. The arc is bake, warm act, share, then meditation before the day kicks into gear and the harder conversations are needed.