Peace of Our Mind: Managerial Interventions and the Search for Collective Mindfulness
通过企业正念项目的案例研究，分析培训师、管理者和参与者如何构建正念的个体与集体元素，探讨管理干预中集体正念的社会建构过程。
Mindfulness training programs have been a rapidly emerging form of managerial intervention and have stimulated debate over the individual and collective potentials of “new age” and humanistic management training. Such programs have been critiqued as individualistic, overly performance oriented, or deviating from collective wisdom traditions at their source. Yet we know little empirically about how actors in mindfulness programs experience the collectivity of mindfulness practices. Through a case study of a corporate mindfulness program, we examine how individual and collective elements of mindfulness are socially constructed by trainers, managers, and participants. We describe discourses of individual benefit, relationality, and macro-social aspirations, and how actors have attempted to link these different levels. By repositioning mindfulness as discursive and situated in ongoing practices, we propose a critical yet empirically situated research agenda around mindfulness interventions in organizational settings, with implications for humanistic and new age managerial education more generally.