Highland hairdresser, Ego Hair Design, named world's first-ever accredited mindfulness salon
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A HIGHLAND hairdresser that has already shown itself to be a cut above has notched another first.
Inverness hairdresser, Ego Hair Design has been named the first-ever accredited 'mindful' salon in the world.
Salon owner Caroline Sanderson has scooped the accolade after her team undertook training from the first continued professional development certified mindfulness course for small businesses.
Ms Sanderson is the multi-award winning owner of Ego Hair Design in Inverness and five-star accredited salon coaching academy Salon Jedi.
It’s because my team is calm, focused and confident thanks to their training. There has never been a time that mindfulness is more needed - Caroline Sanderson
She credits mindfulness with helping to bring her business back from the brink of closure during the 2009 recession, when not only did she claw her way back from bankruptcy, but become a thriving, multi-award winning business which scooped Salon of the Year at the British Hairdressing Business Awards and Most Wanted Business Thinker, for the third time, in 2021.
This year, she is shortlisted for four British Hairdressing Business Awards, four British Hairdressing Awards and four Hair and Beauty Awards.
Every team member took the mindfulness course, called the MINDFUL Salon Source Code, which covers being more mindful within the work environment, mindset exercises, how to be mindful as a team, what to focus on and why limiting beliefs cause disempowering behaviours and how to shift this.
Ms Sanderson said: “I have been practising and teaching mindfulness since 2011 and can directly credit this technique with the incredible success my salon has experienced – can you imagine, a small salon in the Highlands of Scotland being named the best salon in the UK?
"It’s because my team is calm, focused and confident thanks to their training. There has never been a time that mindfulness is more needed.
"During lockdown I created a free, five-day Magic Mind Challenge to which more than 500 people, including children, joined in to do. It’s five days of what I call my magic mind tools to help with mindset.
"It’s free and easy to find on Facebook, and suitable for anyone, from individuals to businesses and teams.”
MS Sanderson's second book, Mindset, Magic and Miracles, is available for pre-order and publishes soon.
The book covers mindfulness, human behaviour and mastering your emotions.
