We’re all in this together.
The Middle Way is a consulting agency whose mission is to bring people together.
We provide team-building, communication, and wellness support to organizations by blending behavioral science principles, purposeful play, and awareness-based practices.
WHAT WE DO
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TEAM-BUILDING WORKSHOPS
Bring your organization together and strengthen relationships through purposeful play based in behavioral science. Learn the skills of effective communication and conflict resolution.
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WELLNESS WORKSHOPS
Support employee well-being, resilience, and job satisfaction using empirically supported stress-reduction strategies. Driven by behavioral science, tailored to each team, and designed for sustainable behavior change.
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ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING
Science-backed, heart-centered, systems-level consulting for executives. Learn to guide compassionate dialogue, manage conflict, drive behavior change, and build organizational resilience. Leadership coaching based in “conscious leadership” principles.
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SPEAKING, EDUCATION, & MEDIA
Keynote presentations on topics ranging from communication strategies, to stress-management, to systems-thinking. Podcast, book, and blog articles.
How We Do IT
Awareness-Based Practices
Everything we do is grounded in presence. We believe that the best “stuff”—creative ideas, deeper relationships, new future possibilities—are best harvested from the field of present-moment awareness.
Purposeful Play
We make learning fun and experiential—we don’t want people just to grasp concepts intellectually, but to feel and “live it.” Our workshops utilize techniques from applied improvisation to build connection, presence, resilience, and collaboration.
Empirical Grounding
Our work is grounded in behavioral science, biological science, and systems science. From team-building, to stress-reduction, to change-management, we draw from empirical data about “what works” to maximize behavior change.
Our Three Founding Principles
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Interconnectedness
Everything is interconnected and interdependent—from the cells in our bodies, to the teams we work with, to the world, itself. The laws that govern the micro (i.e., individual) also apply to the macro (i.e., collective). As we reach our potentials individually, the collective follows.
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Compassionate Awareness
Knowing our interconnectedness, we recognize the “common humanity” in others. Compassion for self and others loosens attachment to unhelpful ideologies and behaviors. This paves the way for pragmatic action.
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Pragmatic Action
We do what works, because it works—not based on predetermined belief systems. This might change across space and time—in a dynamic system, what works depends on context. By loosening our grip on attachment to identity and ideology, we are free to answer the question, “what actions actually work in accordance with my deepest values and goals?”
Workplace Workshops
Create a customized program for your team.
Are you aiming to enhance employee well-being? Job satisfaction? Communication or collaboration skills? Design a custom corporate wellness program tailored to your team’s needs.
