From Languishing to Finding Flow: Well-being at Work with Elena Iacono
Elena Iacono designs and facilitates well-being and mental health programs to help people thrive in the workplace. Looking back to our initial podcast conversation in 2021 on Audiobook Reviews in Five Minutes, we revisit timely themes, including managing stress, toxic positivity, languishing, finding new ways to thrive, and finding flow.
2:07 Our current state and the mental health landscape
6:03 Withdrawal and isolation
7:00 What is toxic workplace culture?
10:00 The dark side of innovative culture
14:45 What is toxic positivity?
22:31 Languishing in 2021 (Adam Grant)
26:44 Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
37:59 Book and TV recommendations
Articles we refer to in this episode:
Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation (MIT Sloan Management Review)
There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing (New York Times)
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Elena recommends
· Mental Health Commission of Canada (resource hub)
· Canadian Mental Health Association
· The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart-Smith
· Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
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Music: Kid Kodi by Skittle and These Times by The Pine Barrens from sessions.blue