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Publication Date: 2025
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Mindfulness Practices as an Experiential Learning Strategy for Human Resources and Relationship Management Topics
Erin Hopkins
Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, v117 n2 p24-29 2025
Millions of families and consumers alike rely on property managers to ensure a positive resident experience within their community. This positive resident experience is achieved through effective property management skills including human resources and relationship management, finance and accounting, maintenance and risk management, and marketing and leasing. These job skills require engagement with a multitude of stakeholders including prospective and current tenants, property owners, property employees, and vendors. Therefore, it is essential that students studying property management cultivate intrapersonal skills such as self-awareness, greater acceptance of ambiguity and uncertainty, and anxiety and stress reduction to set them up for success in the workplace. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe how the Koru Basic Mindfulness curriculum is implemented into a human resources and relationship management module to cultivate these intrapersonal skills, illustrate the merit of this intervention, and share learning takeaways. The hope is that these insights will inspire others to incorporate mindfulness-based interventions into their family and consumer science curriculum.
Descriptors: Metacognition, Human Resources, Real Estate, Job Skills, Self Concept, Stress Management, Skill Development, Intervention, Undergraduate Study, Learning Strategies
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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