About Us
MBI is a full service consulting business with the mission of helping you
reach your goals by tapping into the power of MindBody Intelligence™ .
Our Mission Statement:
Promote a deeper awareness of the MindBody connection and empower people to make healthy lifestyle choices that enhance their performance, health and well-being.
“Believing you can is half the journey.” - Mitchel Adler, Psy.D.
MBI Organizational Values
Collaboration and Strengths
We are committed to working collaboratively with our clients to identify their unique needs and challenges so that we can tailor services toward achieving optimal success. We respect, appreciate, and honor the experience and strengths that our clients bring to the change process and we integrate them into building their own organizational wellness. Through collaboration we succeed by leveraging the greatest strengths of all those involved.
Integrity
Along with helping our clients identify their source of intention in their work, we are committed to building health and optimizing performance by bringing out the best in people. We strive to model MBI in our own consulting work by following our mission statement and offering our clients the highest quality services.
Innovation and Excellence
We offer state-of-the-art programs, training and development based on best-practice theory and research. We bring a fresh, open perspective to consultation that enables us to adapt to the needs of the organizations we serve. We are committed to offering quality, innovative services that engage, challenge and motivate participants to function optimally within a healthy, balanced framework.
Prevention, Promotion and Maintenance
Beyond assisting clients solely in coping with organizational difficulties, we also believe strongly in the power of preventing problems before they arise. We promote clients’ inherent strengths and wellness so they have the skills to foster adaptive functioning and maintain quality organizational health and well-being. We give our clients the knowledge and skills to build a culture of health and wellness that lasts.
“Job stress is estimated to cost American industry $200 -$300 billion annually.”
—Center for Disease Control
Mitchel
Adler, Psy.D. ,is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, creator of MindBody Intelligence™ (MBI), and Director of MindBody Intelligence Consulting. He is co-author of the book, Promoting Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (ASTD press) and other research articles.
As the founder of MBI Consulting, Dr. Adler has consulted with various organizations including the USDA Forest Service, the City of Sacramento, the Organizational Development Network of Sacramento, and Calgene, Inc. Dr. Adler is an affiliate of the Sutter Center for Integrative Health as a Psychologist and MindBody specialist. He serves on the steering committee of California’s Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award Program. He also has a private psychotherapy practice in Davis, California where he works with individuals and couples and runs general psychotherapy groups.
As a staff psychologist at the University of California at Davis, Dr. Adler co-developed the university’s mind-body wellness program and established the inter-departmental mind-body wellness task force. He also created and facilitated mind-body workshops, seminars, and groups, as well as trained psychologists, social workers, physicians, and nurses in mind-body theory and interventions.
Dr. Adler has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) at Rutgers University where he was the recipient of the GSAPP scholar's award, the graduate scholar's award, and the GSAPP alumni scholarship. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he graduated with Distinction and was a James B. Angell Scholar. He currently lives in Davis, CA with his wife and two young daughters.
Lectures, Workshops and Seminars (highlights)
Mind-Body Wellness: Applying mind-body interventions with medical patients.
Presentation to the Physicians and Nurses at Cowell Student Health Center
at UC Davis, California (August 2004).
Mind-Body Wellness: A new paradigm for stress management. Guest lecturer for Healthful Living class at UC Davis, California (August 2004).
Mind-Body Wellness: An essential factor for effective leadership. Guest lecturer for the Student Leadership Series at UC Davis (March 2004).
Referring Unmotivated Patients: Using motivational interviewing techniques in the referral process. Presentation to the Physicians and Nurses at Cowell Student Health Center at UC Davis, California (November 2003).
Emotional Intelligence and Mind-Body Wellness: Building self-awareness and coping with stress. Presentation to Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity at UC Davis (October 2003).
Mind-Body Wellness: Essential to managing stress, enhancing performance,
and fostering a work/life balance. Presented two workshops to the United
States Department of Agriculture's
(USDA's) Forest Service at their regional conference: Building a Better Workplace
for All: Women's Issues Conference, Sacramento, CA (September 2002).
Using Emotional Intelligence as a Framework for Working with Clinical Cases.
Presentation to the Psychology Staff of Rutgers College Counseling Center,
New Jersey (April 2000).
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Raychel Kubby Adler, M.P.H, is the Managing Director of MBI. She is also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kangaroo Wellness, a post-natal health and fitness program, an ACE Certified Group Exercise Instructor, and a certified Spinning Instructor. Raychel has had years of experience working for both New Jersey and California State Health Departments and most recently worked as the Wellness Manager at UC Davis. She has written numerous articles and given many talks in the areas of stress management, wellness and fitness principles, goal setting, motivation,and tobacco control.
Raychel has a Masters Degree in Public Health with an emphasis on Health Education and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ms. Adler lives in Davis California with her husband and two daughters.
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