Learn to cultivate calm, increase clarity and unlock creativity.
The Kairos Model
A unique approach to building a progressive mindfulness practice.
Calm
Reduce stress reactivity and increase focus.
Clear
Identify unhelpful mental habits and ignite inspired thinking.
Create
Build creative agility and ideate with intention.
What Makes
Kairos Different
The creative process requires mindful practice.
Kairos is a creative transformation partner for innovative organizations and inspired humans.
We believe mindful gains require skilled instruction. True teaching helps translate the nuances of mindfulness into tangible action.
By deepening awareness and shifting perspective in service of insight and ideas, we help people think differently.
What is Kairos?
Kairos (καιρόs) is Greek for the perfect, crucial, delicate moment — the fleeting rightness of time and place — that creates an opportune atmosphere for action.
Mission
Our mission is to enable the pursuit of creativity, mindfully. We empower people to enhance their mental atmosphere and harness their inspired moments.
About Ariadne Ducas
Ariadne brings a creative background as a former documentary producer for A&E, History Channel and Discovery networks. She followed her curiosity toward meditation training in 2008 and applied her skills as a journalist to understand the experience of mindfulness.
She has been building her practice, teaching and developing the Kairos model for more than a decade. Her diverse background of training includes over 700 hours of instructor training hours in self-awakening methodology and a 3-month immersion program in non-dual meditation, as well as extensive MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction) coursework.
As Chief Mindfulness Officer, she has facilitated training at Google, Walsh Construction, University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences Division, Project44 and CME Group’s Innovation Lab, among others.
She has a passion to help build creative capacity for people through the power of mindfulness.
Offerings
Kairos is a catalyst for more insightful humans and organizations. We empower people with mindful skills that increase well-being and build creative capacity.
Building a mindfulness practice helps unlock reservoirs of potential that allows people to flourish personally and professionally.
Our mindful model ignites an internal journey to:
Improve well-being and deepen focus
Increase self-awareness and transform rumination and reactivity
Effectively cope with stress, challenge and change
Generate insights and ideas to solve problems and create consistently
Organizations
Kairos designs custom experiences for organizations, delivered both in-person and virtually.
Examples include:
Mindful Kickstart Workshops:
1-3 introductory sessions to build foundational skills.Mindful Immersions:
3-6 experiential training sessions supported by deliverables (guided meditations & study guides).Speaking Engagements:
Supporting conferences, events, offsites or retreats.
Individuals
Kairos offers individual introductory and advanced coaching programs that help develop and mature a mindfulness practice.
Examples include:
Cohort Programs:
Programs designed for small groups of individuals to learn together as they share, grow and create.Individual Coaching:
A dedicated and personalized approach to mindful learning that includes: one-to-one calls, tailored meditations and techniques to meet individual goals.
“I believe in the power of the human mind to be curious, courageous and compassionate — and in mindfulness as the best means to get there.
I’m grateful to all who have joined the Kairos journey.”
— Ariadne
“After the mindfulness series, I felt more peaceful and able to operate my daily life with more purpose and intent than ever before. This helped me manage my stress levels and increase overall productivity both at work and at home. I highly recommend taking any opportunity you can to work with Ariadne. Her passion for the field and devotion to students is remarkable & inspiring!”
“Ariadne offered powerful and practical techniques for using mindfulness to sharpen attention and unlock greater reserves of creativity in service of better business results. In short, the experience was transformative for our people.”
“I just completed ‘Inspired Minds Coaching Cohort’ and am looking forward to using the skills I’ve learned to face this very changed world that we now live in. Through lectures, beautiful meditations and thought-provoking coaching calls, I have started to quiet my internal editor and have begun to create fearlessly. I can hardly wait to navigate the creative process in my work; always remembering the loving kindness so vital to this world.”
“Ariadne enlightened my mindfulness practice with her incredible knowledge, powerful meditation recordings, and patience in discussing my progress. Most importantly, she held me accountable to never stop exploring my own mind on this journey and that has truly brought positive change in my world around me. I can’t thank her enough.”
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