Conflict Compass: Navigating Emotions and Relationships at Work

🎙️ Welcome to another episode of Conflict Managed. I'm excited to host Mandar Apte, Thought Leader, Social Innovator, Meditation Teacher, and Storyteller.

Join us as we explore:

🌬️ The art of conscious breathing for emotional well-being at work.

🤝 Move beyond tolerance; cultivate mutual respect among colleagues.

🔄 Embrace the dynamic nature of acceptance in the workplace.

🌍 Look for global wisdom in all its forms to enrich workplace perspectives.

👥 Forge meaningful friendships and cultivate the essentials for fruitful workplace relationships.

🧠 The origin of work conflicts.

😓 Manage emotions effectively in a professional setting.

🌐 Gain a bird's eye view to navigate workplace conflicts more effectively.

 

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In 2012, Mandar influenced Shell’s CEO to start Shell’s GameChanger social innovation program, which would invest in innovative solutions to sustainability challenges (SDG’s) and create both social impact and business returns. Through the portfolio of investments that he made through this impact investment fund, Mandar showcased how global brands, like Shell, can and must play a greater role to enable and scale social impact.

While at Shell, in 2012, Mandar also won the League of Intrapreneurs award for his efforts to design and facilitate an innovation learning program to over 2000 colleagues at Shell using meditation techniques.

In 2016, Mandar joined George Mason University as a Visiting Scholar at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. He created the Business for Peace Innovation Lab, through which he provided innovation consulting to SDG16 (Peace & Security) and helped organizations to invest in peace.

For nearly two decades, Mandar has volunteered his time for the Art of Living Foundation and the International Association for Human Values to teach leadership development programs using meditation techniques to thousands of people across the world. Mandar is the Founder & Executive Director of Cities4Peace – a not-for-profit consultancy that actively promotes peace in cities worldwide. The flagship program was held in Los Angeles, where so far over 250 community members including LAPD officers, former gang members and victims/survivors of violence have been trained by Mandar as Ambassadors of Peace. Similar programs are now being offered in many other cities and communities worldwide.

In 2017, Mandar produced & directed a documentary film, From India with Love – that showcases the transformational experience of victims of violence from across America who embarked on a journey to India. The film was inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had also visited India to study nonviolence in 1959.

The film was premiered by the Los Angeles Police Department at Paramount Studios and is now available on Amazon Prime in the US and in the UK.

In 2018, Mandar hosted the inaugural World Summit on Countering Violence & Extremism that brought together law enforcement officers and peace activists from US and India to brainstorm novel solutions to promote peace.

You can find Mandar Apte online at: https://mandarapte.net/

You can find his documentary, From India with Love, at https://www.fromindiawithlove.org/our-film.

Conflict Managed is hosted by Merry Brown and produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services (3pconflictrestoration.com).