WORKPLACE WELLNESS
WHO WE ARE
Founded in NYC, we’re the turnkey solution for workplace wellness.
We're a global agency of meditation teachers, healers, authors, doctors and all types of thought leaders within innovation for social good.
INNOVATION, TECH + VENTURE CAPITAL COMPANIES WE WORK WITH
TODAY’S BURNOUT CRISIS
“95% of human resource leaders say burnout is
sabotaging workplace retention.”
OUR VISION
We're finding solutions for America's health crisis by merging modern science innovation with ancient wisdom, helping to prevent career burnout and strengthen community & leadership
in the workplace.
We envision a healthier world enriched with strong community, compassion and kindness.
OUR ETHOS
We believe everyone needs mentors, AKA coaches.
Why? Think about the best tennis players in the whole wide world, like Roger Federer and Serena Williams.
These people are literally the world's greatest at what they do. And yet, they have coaches too.
Cassandra Bianco teaches meditation and has worked with beloved wellness brands, advising some of the world's most disruptive companies.
Cassandra's focus is within the fields of psychology, contemplative science and neuroscience. Merging modern innovation with ancient wisdom, her perspective is rooted in the interconnectedness of all beings. For 15 years she’s trained with world-renown instructors and currently studies a lineage-based meditation with Thupten Phuntsok, a former Tibetan Buddhist monk. Phuntsok’s core teacher received direct guidance from a former tutor to the Dalai Lama.
WELLBEINGS FOUNDER &
CHIEF NOURISHMENT OFFICER
DIRECTOR OF WELLNESS &
WIM HOF METHOD COACH
Avi Greenberg is a Breathwork & Mindset Coach.
At a physical low point - overweight, depressed, and suffering from addiction, Avi turned his life around after training with world-renowned Wim Hof.
He built habits of morning breath-work, cold submersion, and sauna usage, all healing weight-loss, sleep quality, addiction, and his restoration of energy. Avi’s trained in dozens of other effective breathwork modalities and guides students to use stress to build resiliency, creating new pathways to healing, and a deeper connection to the body.
MEDITATION, MINDSET & BREATHWORK
+
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP
+
INNOVATION
WELLBEINGS facilitate workshops with the intention of an immediate feeling of relaxation. Participants explore mental health through innovative approaches via interactive experiences.
Each 45 minute -1½ hour virtual LIVE session includes:
- Learning activity that induces relaxation, self-awareness, creativity and a warm sense of belonging
- Facilitated interactive skill building exercise
- Thoughtfulness in curation - being aware of what topics hold common stigmas
- Leading industry thought leader, who empowers participants with techniques to apply immediately.
GROUP SESSIONS
Taming the Beast of Perfection
This session feels like a relaxation retreat. Tap into the subconscious through journaling and a mindfulness ritual, shifting from the analytical mind back to the natural state of creativity and wonder. You’ll learn a modern-day techniques derived from deeply mystical, powerful practices.
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
SNAPSHOT
Unpack Your Inheritance
As our society becomes more focused on the concepts of diversity, identity, decolonization, anti-racism, and inclusive leadership, we need real tools and experiences to bring these concepts into action. We invite you to begin by first deepening your understanding of your own unique inheritance and identity.
This session guides self-reflection, growing comfortable with discomfort, somatic exploration and authentic communication. We hope to empower people to become the authors of their own story, dismantle taboos and bridge divides by building trust, empathy and collaboration.
How to Downregulate Your Nervous System
Learn functional breathwork and powerful Wim Hof Method tools & techniques as we explore approaching work from a place of peace and clarity vs. “the whip.”
situations.
GROUP SESSIONS SNAPSHOT
Relationship Therapy for You and Your Smartphone
Our relationship to technology feels out of balance. Untamed, the devices meant to empower and connect humanity are holding us back from living our fullest potential. Shift to everyday practices that can transform our relationship with tech.
All Hypnosis is Self-Hypnosis
Experience a subconscious that's refreshed, renewed, and reset. Using hypnosis-based techniques, participants use their thoughts and memories to create states of mind and body that open creativity, positivity, and flow.
SNAPSHOT (CONT’D)
Relationship Therapy for You and Your Smartphone
Our relationship to technology feels out of balance. Untamed, the devices meant to empower and connect humanity are holding us back from living our fullest potential. Shift to everyday practices that can transform our relationship with tech.
How to apply breath, mind-training and practical philosophy to daily life. We gather to explore practical wisdom from these timeless practices, and its convergence with modern-day psychology.
Each weekly 30-min meditation + discussion session includes:
MEDITATION & BREATHWORK
TRAININGS
SPECIALIZED OFFERINGS
BIPOC Diversity Inclusion & Belonging Program
and
Women’s Leadership Committee Program
Each lab includes:
OUR
EXPERTS
COACH SPOTLIGHT: DIGITAL WELLBEING
Giancarlo Pitocco, Founder of Purposeful
Giancarlo has spent over a decade studying the influence of technology on how people think, feel, and act through a career at companies like Facebook/Instagram, Apple, and the world’s largest ad agencies. Now, Giancarlo is on a mission to transform the way we use technology to liberate the creative intelligence of humanity.
He develops programs and workshops for The World Economic Forum, helping people, organizations, and communities develop relationships with technology that cultivate well-being.
COACH SPOTLIGHT
Anahita Moghaddam, Founder of Neural Beings
Anahita leads masterclasses at conferences worldwide, including the World Happiness Summit, the Harvard Business School Club, l’Echappée Volée (Paris), thecamp (Aix en Provence, France), Feast Conference for Social Good, Social Media Week NY, the Lowell Hotel, Civic Hall, and more.
She frequently lectures alongside Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer for Google [X], a serial entrepreneur and author of “Solve for Happy.” Her clients include top executives, entrepreneurs, UN staff, diplomats, economists, as well as leaders in hospitality, design, technology, finance and social innovation.
Katya Stepanov, CEO of The Inheritance Project
Katya is a facilitator, speaker and writer who trains and works with leaders and organizations to build understanding across cultural divides and guide authentic BIPOC social change. She has designed and facilitated team building events for over 60 companies across sectors including HBO, NBC, Lockheed Martin, and J&J. She is also the creator of Inheritance, an immersive VR experience exploring Russian-Jewish immigrant identity and culture, for which she received the COJECO Blueprint Fellowship.
Her mission is to connect people across divides through collaboration and storytelling, and create containers for transformation and belonging.
UNPACK YOUR INHERITANCE
Daniel Ryan, Hypnotherapist
Daniel blends a curious philosopher's mind with an open and compassionate heart.
Daniel is the Co-director at The Center for Integrative Hypnosis in New York City, where he’s maintained a private practice since 2012. Daniel studied and trained in techniques of meditation at the School of Practical Philosophy in New York City while exploring Vedic philosophy, neuroscience, east/west mysticism, and psychology. He’s received board certifications in hypnotherapy (Cht) regression therapy (Crt) and neuro-linguistic psychology. He also co-founded the Center for Integrative Healing. Daniel has consulted with Bank of America, Spotify and Buzzfeed, building experiences that explore the art of shifting culture.
ALL HYPNOSIS IS SELF-HYPNOSIS
Florencia Fridman, Co-Founder of Cacao Lab
Florencia Fridman is a self-empowerment coach working with heart opening therapies involving holistic nutrition. These include Ceremonial Grade Cacao, sound journeys, and breath work as instruments for growth; creating a safe vessel for creativity and building kinship. She studies with T'zutujil Mayan elders in Guatemala.
Florencia has been working internationally for 7 years and facilitates ceremonies Spotify, The Assemblage, The Class by Taryn Toomey, Deepak Chopra, ABC Carpet & Home, Woom Center, Healhaus, among others. She’s the Co-Founder of Cacao Lab, a Ceremonial Cacao brand aiming to bridge the gap between the modern culture and the indigenous communities.
CACAO CIRCLE: BUILDING COMMUNITY
IN THE WORKPLACE
Cathy Trentalancia, Founder of MindScience
Cathy’s credits include “Cosmos” with Carl Sagan and Historical Consultant on the Cosmos series with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, “The Healing Has Begun” with Richard Gere and Jonathan Cott. Cathy received her Masters in South Asian Studies from Columbia University . Cathy works with Sharon Salzberg on the Faculty of the Contemplative Based Resilience Program at Garrison Institute and has been meditating for over 25 years.
Cathy is certified at the Compassion Teacher Training at Nalanda Institute, the advanced teacher training at MNDFL, and Mindful Schools. She teaches meditation in corporations for American Express, Sony, Simpson Thatcher, Shisheido and Carnegie Hall.
MEDITATION TEACHER SPOTLIGHT
Thupten Phuntsok, Tibetan Buddhist Monk
Born in Haiti, Thupten Phuntsok (Irnst Norgaisse) came to New York with his two sisters when he was nine years old and was ordained as a novice monk by Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin Rinpoche in 1993. He received his Full Ordination (Gelong) the following year, and he’s been a formal student of Buddhism for over 30 years. He teaches at MNDFL and has led sessions at international conferences.
He started his education under the guidance of Kyongla Rato Rinpoche, until he met his main teacher, the late Sermey Kensur Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin. Phuntsok also received direct guidance from Sermey Kensur Rinpoche Geshe, who studied under a key tutor to the Dalai Lama.
MEDITATION TEACHER SPOTLIGHT
Senior Manager at SPOTIFY
“Wellbeings brought LIFE CHANGING programming to Spotify that’s completely transformed my media consumption & wellness�practice.”
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Nikki Valentine
Director at Bacardi
“Cassandra is the real deal. She has such a soothing vibe and demeanor.�You instantly relax in her�presence. She accepts all�of you and there is an�openness to explore.”
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Katarina Damree
cassandra@helloWELLBEINGS.com
WEEKLY Meditation & Breathwork
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
Women’s Leadership
Mental Health 101
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WORKSHOP TOPICS