Paulius Rakštikas

Paulius Rakštikas is an associate consultant at OVC Consulting, a psychologist, and a mindfulness teacher. His areas of expertise include emotional health, psychological flexibility, mindfulness training, stress management, and the application of an experiential approach to personal and team growth. Paul promotes emotional self-care and helps people achieve balance. His book, Staigmena gyventi, discusses this subject. He also has 15 years of experience in training and creative projects (photography).

• Areas of expertise: mindfulness in a variety of training formats, from one-to-one sessions to specialised continuing groups and long-term programmes, emotional health, psychological flexibility, stress management, experiential approaches to personal and team growth.
• 15+ years of training experience.
• 10+ years of experience in developing emotional health programmes, activities, and projects.
• 10+ years of experience in creative projects (photography).
• Author of Staigmena gyventi (Alma Littera, 2019), a book on mindfulness.
• Certified teacher of mindfulness (Lithuanian Association of Mindfulness-Based Psychology).
• Certificate in Experiential Personal Career Management (VšĮ Kitokie Projektai).
• Member of the Lithuanian Association of Mindfulness-Based Psychology.
• Postgraduate studies: the fundamentals of mindfulness-based cognitive and behavioural therapy (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences).
• Master’s degree in Business Psychology (Mykolas Romeris University).

Paulius says he is rediscovering a meaningful truth about life – that the biggest challenge is finding balance. “Love and work, ambitious pursuit and wise retreat. A stick has two ends, but it also has a point at which we can hold it in perfect balance. Where is this point and how do we keep it? For when we approach one end, the stick, like life, wobbles. I see this balance in the desires of my clients, and I feel it in myself. Mindfulness training allows me to notice when the balance is slipping out of my hands. You can’t regain it by grabbing it quickly, because balance, like life, reveals itself to the most patient,” says Paulius.

For those seeking inner balance, Paulius has written a book, Staigmena gyventi. He believes that developing mindfulness of oneself and the world can help develop skills that are useful in everyday life: the ability to feel calm even when working hard, and to not feel like a stranger to oneself when there is a pause for silence.