Category: Mindfulness

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Mental Strength for Train Drivers: The Attention@DB Programme
Train drivers play a crucial role in rail transport, ensuring safety and punctuality. Their job demands high concentration and emotional resilience. To support them, DB Training, in collaboration with Awaris, developed the Attention@DB (Deutsche Bahn) programme, which strengthens focus, stress management, and emotional regulation. Strengthening Attention for Safety Each year, DB Training qualifies and tests 26,000 train drivers. While technical systems […]

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Awaris Impact Report 2024
As we approach the end of the year, we wanted to take a moment to pause and reflect on all that’s been achieved, who we’ve supported, and who’s supported us. This year has been one of the most turbulent years in recent global history, with unprecedented shifts politically, environmentally and economically. Given this backdrop, we’re […]

17 Min.
Mindfulness and resilience
Using Mindfulness to Build Resilience The building blocks of WE-silience In our previous blog post, we outlined some of the key steps needed to move from individual resilience to organisation-wide resilience, or WE-silience as we call it. It’s worth restating them here, before looking at the role mindfulness can play in building resilience. Clearly, there’s […]

17 Min.
The Realism of Mindfulness
Abstract Mindfulness practices were not created simply to reduce stress help people focus more. Fundamentally mindfulness is about being able to examine and get used to reality as it is. So mindfulness is not something esoteric – but actually deeply realistic. Many times we are deeply unrealistic about how we or others function – and this […]