Mindful Sport Performance Podcast

Ep. 38: Véronique Prouhet Annerino - Manager at Headspace Inc. & Mindfulness Trainer

January 21, 2022 Dr. Keith Kaufman & Dr. Tim Pineau Season 3 Episode 8
Mindful Sport Performance Podcast
Ep. 38: Véronique Prouhet Annerino - Manager at Headspace Inc. & Mindfulness Trainer
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Show Notes

In this episode, Véronique Prouhet Annerino joins the conversation.

Véronique has practiced and studied mindfulness for 20 years and has taught mindfulness meditation for the past four years to tens of thousands of people across 44 countries.  As a behavioral health and mindfulness trainer to global experts and executives in engineering, research, health care, and multinational corporations, she provides mindfulness and meditation tools and techniques for cultivating equanimity and building mental fortitude to enhance focus, performance, and well-being.

She has a master's in health and healthcare economics and a decade of experience in population health and wellness.  While working in digital health at IBM,  she was the North American leader in their global mindfulness program. Today,  Véronique works with the meditation app Headspace and continues to teach regularly across a dynamic array of populations.

Véronique begins the episode with a brief arriving practice, and then talks with Keith and Tim about:

7:17 - Using the breath as an attentional "remote control"

8:55 - Getting buy-in to the idea of mindfulness

10:20 - A marvelous description of mindfulness

13:45 - Mindfulness as a new frontier in sports

15:56 - Her personal journey into sports

19:09 - How to teach the philosophy of mindfulness in sports

29:00 - The benefits of treating athletes as whole people, not machines

34:00 - Bridging the gap between performance and compassion

36:45 - Finding flow as an athlete by letting go

Podcasts Mentioned:

The Office Ladies

Social Media Mentioned:

Twitter: @mindfulsportdoc

Instagram: @mindful_sport_podcast

YouTube: Mindful Sport Performance Podcast

Véronique's Linkedin

Websites Mentioned:

www.mindfulsportperformance.org

www.enduromind.com


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Keith & Tim

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