RISE

Transforming the way people work.

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Stress is the greatest challenge for high-stakes organizations, and it manifests in a multitude of ways.

Here’s what we know: Stress is the underlying cause of

60% of all human illness and disease.

Research shows that stress has a negative impact on teamwork, the ability to focus, decision making, and creative thinking.

80% of workers feel stress on the job, and nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress. $300 billion

Stress costs the nation annually in medical bills and lost productivity.

Stress is a killer—literally.

But, with the right tools, stress can be transformed into an engine of innovation, engagement, and performance.

That’s where RISE comes in.

Sources: American Institute of Stress, American Psychological Association, stress.org

RISE shifts the paradigm of high performance by using individual well-being as a lever for enhancing organizational culture and fostering conscious leadership.

RISE is an evidence-based leadership-development program anchored in the science and practice of mindfulness, yoga, and Positive Psychology. Developed by Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in partnership with corporate leaders, RISE brings together more than a decade of research in mindfulness, resilience, brain science, and human behavior.

RISE is specifically designed to support • Better clarity and decision making • Greater resilience • Improved emotional intelligence

• Decreased burnout rates

• Enhanced work/life integration

• Superior long-term performance.

“The RISE program provides a user-friendly approach to mindfulness and stress resilience training. RISE illustrates how to embody self-care in order to center yourself, your staff, and therefore your organization.”

—President, Multicultural BRIDGE

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Essential Tools for Change RISE provides data-driven solutions to create mindful, resilient, high-performing individuals and organizations.

Through RISE, long-term,

RISE offers a multifaceted set of

sustainable change occurs at three levels:

learning experiences that transcend traditional mindfulness courses.

Personal Transformation

Instruction

Employee experience becomes more fulfilling as they integrate tools for self-care and navigating stress with skill. RISE produces measurable results in individual wellness, including reduced stress and an increase in positive mood.

Discover a new model that supports both personal well-being and organizational performance. Learn the science behind mindfulness-based practices and the direct impact of stress on health and work/ life integration.

Professional Transformation

Practice

The workplace environment shifts as employees develop new approaches to teamwork, productivity, and conscious leadership—supporting sustainable levels of high performance and ways of leading with intention and care.

Experience the immediate impact of stressresilience tools, including breathing and centering exercises, meditations, strengths identification, mindful listening, and movement.

Transformation Throughout Organizations Retention and collaboration increases, catalyzing new opportunities and new ways of working and visioning. The result: Leading-edge solutions emerge.

Tools for the Long Term Take away an action plan that includes tools for enhancing personal wellness, new approaches that transform how people work, and a pathway for cultural change.

We know RISE works.

RISE trainings have been rigorously evaluated by scientists, including our research partners at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Individuals in high-stress organizations who experience the RISE program report profound results—increases in resilience, mindfulness, engagement, and positivity. Our research outcomes have been widely published in peerreviewed journals, such as the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Wellness.

RISE mindfulness tools are proven to • Change the brain, making it easier to pay attention, stay calm, and tap into empathy • Build positivity, productivity, and mental clarity • Improve stress resilience in the moment and over time • Address symptoms of secondary trauma • Enable better risk management • Reduce performance anxiety • Support health—mindfulness is linked with a 50% decrease in cold and flu symptoms and a 75% decrease in absenteeism.

Our research shows that RISE participants experience • 32% reduction in perceived stress • 13% increase in mindfulness • 10% increase in empowerment.

“What I came to understand through RISE is that, as a supervisor, I need to bring the clarity, the calm, and the connectedness. I can’t show up looking for the juice—I’ve got to bring it. RISE not only gave me new tools for doing that, it was also an opportunity to get grounded in the science.

Our brains don’t function well in stress and crisis— the amygdala will really mess with your ability to make smart decisions. It’s such a relief and also so energizing to remember that there is always one thing you can do to bring your brain back online and activate your parasympathetic nervous system: the breath. There are a lot of things that happen to the body when you’re under stress that you can’t do anything about, but you can control your breath, and that makes a huge difference when it comes to staying calm and clear, making decisions, and making changes when needed.”

—Bridget Hughes, Senior Director, Hetrick-Martin Institute, New York, New York

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RISE can be delivered on-site at Kripalu, at the client site, virtually, or via a combination of all three.

Program length typically ranges from one to five days, and can be customized to meet your organization’s needs.

But RISE isn’t just a one-time program. It’s a transformation, driving lasting change through multiple, self-sustaining solutions.

RISE Facilitators Our expert facilitators bring years of experience in delivering mindfulness programming, and are trained specifically to offer RISE to executive leadership and individuals in high-stress industries.

Dana Campbell is a career strategy and burnout coach, stress resiliency expert, and yoga instructor. While guiding large organizations through seismic shifts in process, technology, and culture, she witnessed—and experienced—the toll that demanding work environments have on individual and team health.

Dana believes that mindfulness principles are a requirement for driving organizational transformation, and is passionate about fostering individual shifts in behavior to support thriving cultures and careers.

She is certified by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and ELI®.

Dana specializes in change leadership, burnout resiliency, and mindfulness-based stress reduction, and is known for her simple, digestible, and practical approach to change.

Sam Chase designs and delivers programs in mindfulness, yoga, and resilience for organizations nationwide, and specializes in working with communities that serve in high-stress circumstances. After graduating from Vanderbilt, he won the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships, but declined the award to pursue the work he continues today—exploring the science of the human mind and the factors of a flourishing life. He brings that study to the business world through his work with clients such as UBS, Bloomberg, and many others.

Sam has delivered yoga and meditation programs to staff at the United Nations headquarters in New York; and to members of the National Guard, as part of a pioneering resilience intervention led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Sam holds a master’s degree from Harvard, where he was the national recipient of the Jacob Javits Fellowship. He received certificates in yoga and in Positive Psychology from Kripalu, where he currently serves as the Lead Facilitator for the RISE program.

Contact us for more information.

413.448.3300 rise@kripalu.org kripalu.org/rise RISE™ is a registered trademark of Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. All rights reserved.