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"Joel Bennett, PhD, is president of Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems (OWLS), a consulting firm that specializes in evidence-based wellness and e-learning technologies to promote organizational health and employee well-being. Dr. Bennett first delivered stress management programming in 1985, and through the efforts of over 400 resilience facilitators and coaches who have been trained in OWLS' evidence-informed curriculum as well as consulting in South Africa, Italy, and Brazil, OWLS programs have since reached over 250,000 workers across the United States and internationally. OWLS has received over $6 million in National Institutes of Health funding for workplace well-being research, and their programs have been recognized as effective by independent bodies, including the US Surgeon General.OWLS consults on Integral Organizational Wellness(TM) approaches that combine leadership, champion, team, and peer-to-peer strategies: nudging the true culture of health. Joel is the author of 50 peer-reviewed research articles and chapters and has authored or coauthored eight books, including Heart-Centered Leadership (with Susan Steinbrecher), Raw Coping Power: From Stress to Thriving, Your Best Self at Work (with Ben Dilla), Well-Being Champions: A Competency--Based Guidebook, Time and Intimacy, Preventing Workplace Substance Abuse, and The Connoisseur of Time.Dr. Bennett has served in advisory and board roles for various organizations including Magellan Health; Aetna; the National Wellness Institute; It's Time Texas, Work Healthier Advisory Committee; the Academy of Management Division on Management and Spirituality; the Global Wellness Institute; the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans; and the State of Texas Primary Prevention Planning Committee (Preventing Sexual Violence).In 2022, he received the William B. Baun Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Wellness Institute for his contributions to the professional field of wellness. He also received the Positive Leadership Award from the Positive Leadership Institute for forward-thinking management practices that help employees, teams, and organizations thrive.Joel lives in North Texas with Jan, his wife of twenty-eight years, and around the corner from his wonderful son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren, who call him ""Obi."" He hopes that one day he will become a Jedi Knight or something."
Short Praise ... a trusted source to make sense of our short time on earth and in a magical way...timeless wisdom. - Ryan Picarella (CEO, Wellness Councils of America) ... brings out the wisdom of the ages to become the magic of the moment. - Alan Porzio (Sound Designer, Third Ear Design) ... has changed my life. The impact has been nothing short of amazing. - Amanda Jo Edelmayer (Culture Development Lead, Battelle Energy Alliance) ... helps in savoring one's own life story in chaos and in flow and everything in between. - Stephen Kiesling (Editor in Chief, Spirituality + Health magazine) ... offers a gift for taking deep, contemplative information and translating it in thought-provoking ways that cultivate a sense of coming home. - Kimberly Gray (RN, Integrative Health and Wellness Consultant) Long Praise Joel Bennett is a true 'connoisseur of time.' His Quest for Presence helps in savoring one's own life story in chaos and in flow and everything in between. If you take the time to learn it, you'll have more patience when conditions are not nurturing and thus more of your time becomes effortless, momentous, and poignant. The Quest for Presence helps the ordinary become resonant. - Stephen Kiesling, Editor in Chief, Spirituality + Health magazine; Member, USA Olympic Rowing Team (1980) Quest for Presence has had a profound impact on my life. As someone who loves my work, it is easy to tip into 'too busy' and a sense of being time-poor. I read this book with the goal of learning to be more present. WOW. It showed me the bigger picture 'map' of Forces that affect time, and it was like someone dropped a YOU ARE HERE pin on that map. The book and workshop helped me to realize I already have a lot of presence-building traits that I can leverage and gave me important tools to help me 'drop into' presence, which I now use daily. As a result, I feel more at peace, more trusting, less anxious, and more in charge of my own life. It has been truly transformative - and I am excited to read the next installment. - Melanie White, Co-Founder; Sage Women's Health The writer of the Book of Ecclesiastes reminds us 'for everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.' Given that we are now living in a season of perpetual volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, it is my belief that Dr. Joel Bennett's Quest for Presence work was divinely inspired for 'such a time as this.' Dr. Bennett's work has dramatically improved the quality of my life. Throughout, I was guided on how to pause (to quest, to go within), to become fully present, and to learn to listen to myself and others intimately. I received practical yet powerful insight, knowledge, tools, and resources that enabled me to make immediate, positive, and permanent adjustments to my attitudes and actions. As a baby boomer and trauma survivor, many of my experiences, challenges, and accomplishments can be linked to workaholism and other unhealthy coping behaviors. Intentionally taking time to pause, rest, refresh, relax, meditate, reflect, and be fully present has rarely, if ever, been something that I valued or practiced. Occasional brief interludes of quietness or stillness have always felt uncomfortable, seemed unnatural, and totally counter-productive-I viewed these things as the ultimate waste of valuable time. That errant
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