Could Religious Rituals Teach Your Team How To Get In Sync?

Chanting, swaying and mindfulness meditation improve synchrony | Photo by cottonbro on Pexels

Team rituals are nothing new. The “ unity breakdown” that sports teams use, for example, has team members interlocking arms in a huddle while swaying and chanting in response to questions posed by their leader. As David DeSteno, professor of psychology at Northeastern University, notes, in his book How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion, these types of synchronizing…