The Mindful Developer: Reduce Stress, Avoid Burnout, and Work and Live Better.

Developers increasingly work in fast-paced environments, face tight deadlines and have to sort through competing priorities to manage expectations from multiple stakeholders. It’s no surprise that these conditions often lead to stress and burnout.

In such high-stress environments, having a method to manage stress and take care of your mental health is absolutely essential. Enter mindfulness. In this session we’ll myth-bust mindfulness, briefly cover the growing body of evidence supporting the efficacy of mindfulness meditation, and walk through a quick exercise to get a first hand experience of the practice.

No dogma. No pseudo science. No weird eye-gazing exercises, just an open and welcoming environment for beginners to ask questions and explore meditation. You’ll leave understanding the essential elements of mindfulness, how to start a practice at home or work, and begin to reduce stress in just a few minutes a day.

Speaker Bio

Matt Jager has been interested in development since he first programmed his TI-83 graphing calculator to do his homework in middle school. He currently applies his 8 years of Drupal and front end experience as tech lead and front-end developer at Aten Design Group in Denver, Colorado. He is passionate about creating beautiful, user-centric experiences and also how developers can leverage mindfulness and yoga to be happier and do better work.