Ep 55 Mindfulness in the Workplace: Strategies to Support Young Employees of Color

In this episode of The Forum Podcast, Dr. Karrin Glover (Albert Einstein School of Medicine) shares insights into the mental and physical impacts of structural racism, racial trauma, and bias on young employees of color. Today’s pandemic, economic crisis, and national racial reckoning have only exacerbated challenges and produced additional risk factors that can jeopardize young people of color in the workplace. In this pocast, Dr. Karinn Glover, a psychiatrist and mindfulness expert, shares insights into the mental and physical impacts of structural racism, racial trauma, and bias on young employees of color, with special attention on the mind-body connection. Dr. Glover will also discuss the mindfulness-based techniques listeners can share with employees, as well as resources and tools for identifying mental health and emotional well-being symptoms and seeking support. Learning Outcomes Learn techniques and tools to cope with issues like racial trauma, microaggressions, implicit bias Decrease isolation and loneliness; and increase sense of community, belonging and supportive network Gain knowledge around culturally-relevant traditions and practices from communities of color