Our Approach
Our Approach
The Dreamgarten Difference
Our process is rooted in mindfulness to first move out of the stress cycle of burnout and into a place of balance in the mind and body. From there, we use human-centered, design thinking methods to reframe problems and find creative ways to solve them.
Mindfulness
There’s so much more to mindfulness than yoga and meditation. Think of it as a practical tool that we can use to be fully present, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. Dreamgarten uses mindfulness tools like breathing and movement to ground your people in the moment so that they are able to connect with themselves and others.
Bringing Awareness
Cultivating Simple Practices with Intention
By being aware of where we are and what we’re doing, there is a scientifically-demonstrated benefit to ourselves, our loved ones, and everyone we interact with. Intention allows us to pause and move forward with care.
Sparking Innovation
We start every session with mindfulness. It’s where we begin to release thoughts of what came before or the to-do list for after the session. It’s the place where we return to ourselves.
Design Thinking
Design thinking involves finding creative solutions to problems through an iterative approach. That means, we try. We may fail. But, we always try again. While this methodology is traditionally applied to product and UX design, Dreamgarten has discovered its powerful value in everyday decision making when applied to leadership, business, career, and beyond.
Our design-thinking approach involves:
Creating Empathy
By building empathy for ourselves and others, we can come to grips with the problems we face and discover solutions that feel true to the human at the center. At Dreamgarten, we believe self-compassion is the first step toward progress.
Ideation, Innovation, and Problem Solving
It is through uncovering the needs, desires, and motivations underlying the problems we face that we make meaningful progress. First, we must open the aperture for new and novel ideas, and then narrow the aperture to make better choices.
Prototyping and Testing
By taking an iterative approach to solutioning, we can continuously test our approaches and learn more effective methods. Reframing possible solutions as experiments allows us to see there isn’t one right way to solve a problem.
This process allows us to use proven tactics to reframe problems, uncover new, and more importantly, better choices, and create human-centered solutions.
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