Search Inside Yourself (SIY) Mindfulness-Based Emotional Intelligence Training

For Resilient Flourishing at Work, at Home, and in Community

Developed and tested at Google, the SIY program teaches practical mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and leadership skills that lead to sustained peak performance, resilience, healthy collaboration and effective leadership. SIY takes an evidence-based approach combining neuroscience, attention-training and emotional intelligence. The self awareness, focused attention, stress management, and mindful communication skills that SIY trains in a unique, highly experiential format can be applied immediately at work and at home.

Contact me if you’re interested in future sessions or if you’d like to bring SIY programs to your organization.

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Feedback from over 6,000 participants across 20 countries shows strong and positive results…

  • 71% felt a better ability to reduce stress after the program (vs. 46% before the training).
  • 61% reported being able to bounce back from an emotionally challenging situation (vs. 43% before the program).
  • 72% noticed an ability to increase focus and return to the present moment (vs. 51% before the program).

Content

1. Introduction to mindfulness

What is mindfulness, its benefits as a tool to help us move from auto-pilot to aware, and the neuroscience behind its effectiveness.

2. Mindfulness & self-awareness

What is self-awareness, emotions as physiological responses, the importance of understanding our emotional state and its impact on our well-being and actions.

3. Stress reactivity & managing emotions

How to move from compulsion to choice when responding to life triggers resulting in more productive and pleasant outcomes.

4. Resilience & self-compassion

3 steps to develop resilience and the science and benefits of self-compassion as a mechanism for dealing with difficult situations.

5. Empathy & compassion

Empathy and compassion definitions and the neuroscience behind them. How to tap into and practice compassion for better leadership and as an antidote to burnout.

6. Communicating with insight

How to communicate with compassion for others and truly be of service, with mutual learning and understanding.

Outcomes:

This program empowers participants to:

  1. Identify and develop the inner resources and mental clarity needed to optimize leadership and performance and enhance well-being.
  2. Understand the neurobiology behind optimal mental states and how you can use this knowledge to maintain focus and equanimity and cultivate leadership presence.
  3. Recognize the triggers and threats to optimal mental states and learn strategies to navigate challenges, foster resilience and thrive, both personally and professionally.
  4. How to build and maintain relationships in our new social distancing environment and beyond.
  5. Recognize the key drivers of human behaviors in social settings that lead to conflict or compassion.
  6. Develop tangible communication practices that build psychological safety in groups and support mutual learning, understanding and collaboration, even in difficult conversations.

Delivery Modalities:

This blended learning program can be delivered in person or virtually, customized to the client’s needs. Timing ranges from 2 full days of in-person training to 6 two-hour online sessions.

Testimonials for Martha:

“Love her attitude and energy! Connects very fast with people.”

“Very soothing meditation voice. Held the room and discussion. Passionate.”

“Delivers and integrates message in a way that people from big organizations can relate to.”

Interested? Let’s connect! Contact me to set up a call about Search Inside Yourself programming options.

Martha Brettschneider is a Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute Certified Teacher, author, speaker, and award-winning nature photographer. Her passion is to help busy people cultivate daily mindfulness practices and emotional intelligence skills to flourish in all aspects of their lives. 

Formerly an international economist (U.S. Treasury Department and International Monetary Fund), Martha stumbled upon mindfulness teachings while recovering from breast cancer in 2009. She chronicles her journey in Blooming into Mindfulness: How the Universe Used a Garden, Cancer, and Carpools to Teach Me That Calm Is the New Happy.

She has taught SIY and related customized workshops to a wide variety of audiences, among them Sibley Memorial Hospital, United Way, Greater Boston Food Bank, the IMF Family Association, the World Bank Healthy Staff Working Group, and many other organizations.