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Bring out the best in your team.

We teach leaders tools for focus, self-

Information awareness and resilience. Experience the

mindfulness-based emotional intelligence

Guide training that was born at Google—and is

backed by science.
Contents What We Do
Curriculum
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What Makes SIY Special 5
Bring SIY to Your Organization 7
Sample 2-day training schedule 9
Our Clients 10
Our Reach 11
Our Impact 12

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What We Do

Bridging age-old mindfulness practice and modern neuroscience, Search Inside Yourself helps
people in organizations bring out the best in themselves. We use a combination of live training,
individual assessments, and ongoing programs to help individuals develop emotional
intelligence skills to thrive in our complex, fast-paced society.

Origins of Search Inside Yourself

Search Inside Yourself was born at Google from one engineer’s dream to
change the world and has become a globally recognized program. In
2007, veteran Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan brought together
leading experts in mindfulness, neuroscience and emotional intelligence
to develop an in-house training for Google employees. This became
Search Inside Yourself and quickly grew to be the most popular training
program in the company. Even after being taught for years at Google,
when a new program opens enrollment, it lls almost immediately and
receives a long wait List.

In 2012, a separate not-for-profit, the Search Inside Yourself Leadership

Institute (SIYLI), was established to meet demand for the program from
outside organizations. Google granted the IP and trademark rights to
SIYLI which continues to work with Google, as well as other corporate,
nonprofit and government organizations around the world to bring the
Search Inside Yourself (SIY) program to as many people as possible.
SIYLI’s mission is to help create the conditions for world peace.

Why “Search Inside Yourself”?

SIY founder Chade-Meng Tan named the program “Search Inside

Yourself” as a play on Google’s search business, and as a playful way to
encourage Google’s engineers to search within to develop emotional
self-awareness, not just great code.

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Curriculum

Search Inside Yourself uses attention and mindfulness training to help people build the
emotional intelligence skills needed for sustained peak performance, strong collaboration, and
effective leadership.

Emotional Intelligence
Workplace studies prove that emotional competencies predict
performance, effectiveness, and wellbeing.
Emotional
Mindfulness
Intelligence
Mindfulness
Research shows that mindfulness is a foundational skill

that underpins the inner growth: self-awareness, self-

management, and emotional skills.

Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Neuroscience shows that how we direct our attention
determines the mental habits we form, the emotions we

Benefits Teachers

We share a personal commitment to practice what we teach.

Organizations look to Search Inside Yourself to help their
Our teachers are an amazing group of more than 100 experts
employees learn skills to:
around the world who have backgrounds in mindfulness,
neuroscience, or business–several have founded their own
· Improve communication and collaboration skills
organizations or held prominent executive positions in leading
· Develop outstanding leadership
companies.
· Increase creativity and innovation
· Reduce stress and experience greater overall
A full list of SIYLI’s teachers is at siyli.org/certified-teachers.
well-being

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What Makes SIY Special

The Search Inside Yourself (SIY) Program In an SIY program, you can
takes a science-based approach that expect to learn:

combines neuroscience, mindfulness and

Mindfulness
emotional intelligence. Through these three
According to leader in the field of emotional intelligence,
disciplines, SIY helps participants integrate
Daniel Goleman, the development of emotional
the key building blocks for well-being, intelligence relies on becoming more self-aware, which
can be trained through mindfulness. Mindfulness,
collaboration, and leadership. The program is being aware and open in the present, enables stability
of mind and insight into how you are feeling, thinking
highly interactive. It is approximately one-
and reacting. Mindfulness leads to better judgment
third content and two-thirds experiential and emotional balance, especially in difficult situations.
SIY teaches the neuroscience behind mindfulness and
exercises, including one-on-one and group how to cultivate it as the foundational skill that enables
emotional awareness, a calm and clear mind, and
conversations, attention-training practices,
interpersonal effectiveness.
listening exercises, and writing activities. Each
program is tailored for the client’s needs and Self-Awareness
presented through a different lens depending
Challenging situations require us to have a keen sense
on the audience, while maintaining the of our own reactions and of the patterns of behavior and
leadership that we bring to each conversation. SIY’s self-
combination of neuroscience, mindfulness, awareness practice enhances your perception of your
emotions, habits, and behavior patterns. In particular,
and emotional intelligence that has made the you’ll learn to how to gather useful “data” from unpleasant
program successful. emotions that arise from setbacks, without becoming
overwhelmed by them. Outcomes include:

· Become comfortable with your emotional range

· Be able to accurately assess yourself
· Develop self-confidence

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Self-Regulation Empathy

To navigate our opportunities and challenges, we need to Effective leaders and teammates are those who can
confidently manage our reactions and response. Building understand colleagues and build relationships and trust.
on self- awareness, SIY teaches how to identify and work Understanding the science and practice of empathy also
with emotional “triggers” and other difficult situations. In this supports diverse teams to be more inclusive of their diversity.
session, you’ll experiment with a number of practices for SIY teaches habits to increase empathy and strengthen your
working in emotionally charged situations. ability to understand others’ feelings and perspectives.

· Learn to pause before reacting to your emotional · Understand the neuroscience of empathy
triggers · Develop the mental habits of kindness, goodwill and
· Develop inner strength and ability to productively objectivity
deal with difficult situations · Learn to attune to the emotional undertone in
· Increase your resilience and ability to respond to relationships
setbacks

Leadership Skills
Motivation
Emotional intelligence is an essential leadership skill. Learn
When your work and life are aligned with your values and to influence those around you with compassion, even while
emotional tendencies, you will be more engaged in what you making difficult decisions, and learn how to communicate
do, and more successful in reaching your goals. with greater insight into the different layers of emotions,
perspectives, and identity that drive relationships.
· Discover and hone the values that drive your actions
· Learn practices to dream big and increase motivation · Become skillful at influencing with compassion
· Practice emotional and cognitive resilience, trainable · Gain confidence in creating a positive outcome in
skills that enable you to persevere towards your goals conversations where strong emotions are present
· Develop emotional courage to lead others

Mindfulness:
The ability to focus on the present moment with
curiosity and openness. It’s a foundational skill that
underpins emotional intelligence.

Emotional Intelligance
The ability to recognize your own and other
people’s emotions and use this information to guide
wise thinking and behavior. Workplace studies show
that emotional competencies predict performance,
leadership effectiveness, and well-being.

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Bring SIY to
Your Organization

We help people in organizations bring out the best in themselves—enjoying greater

productivity, effectiveness, and happiness— in all aspects of their work and life.

Program Design Audience

The Search Inside Yourself program can be customized to

To SIY programs can be tailored to your organization’s
work for a variety of participants:
culture and needs. Through interviews and an individual and
organizational assessment process, we develop a mutual
Leaders and Managers
understanding of your organization’s unique goals and
objectives, and customize programs accordingly. SIY teaches senior leaders and managers how to get
The core of Search Inside Yourself is a two-day in-person breakthrough results in a way that is inspiring, engaging and
program with follow-up practices to support participants to compassionate. Through enhanced self-awareness and
make habit changes at work that lead to greater well-being empathy, leaders learn to communicate better, strengthen
and emotional intelligence. SIY programs are delivered in- relationships, and lead with greater presence and impact.
person by one or two SIY-certified teachers.
The program is highly interactive and includes the following Employees
core components:
SIY started as an open-enrollment program for any Google
employee. Due to its success, the program has been expended
· Overview of the neuroscience of emotion, perception
from reaching dozens of employees per year to now
and behavior change.
thousands. The program works well for any employee that
· Attention training to enable greater emotional
wants to develop personally, increase their well-being, and be
intelligence, including self-awareness, self-mastery,
a better teammate.
motivation and connection with self and others.
· Practices for developing healthy mental habits that
Teams
accelerate well-being—including effective listening,
generosity, empathy, communication and social skills. When a team participates in an SIY program together, they
· Mindfulness and reflection practices that support create a common language around emotional intelligence,
happiness, overall well-being and exceptional which strengths their communication and helps them navigate
leadership. challenges successfully.

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Program Options

SIYLI works with clients to figure out the best program options and can
create custom solutions. For organizations that are looking for deep
engagement and larger impact, we start with a needs assessment
process to determine the best combination of programs and to Audience:
customize them to your team’s unique needs. Employees, teams, managers, senior leaders

Options to bring SIY into an organization include: Group Size:

20-80 people
· A Standalone SIY Program includes an interactive
2-day in-person training, followed by 4-weeks of Delivery:
recommended peer-to-peer practices to sustain and Onsite at your company, with virtual coaching and
· integrate learning and self-directed growth from the program follow-up
inside out.
· Keynote Address and Half-Day Introductory Programs Teachers:
are an introduction to mindfulness practices to 1-2 SIY-certified teachers travel to your organization
develop perspective and presence as a leader.
· Internal Train-the-Trainer programs scale the delivery
of the SIY program and support company-wide growth.

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Sample 2-Day
Training Schedule

Day 1 Day 2

9:00 — Start 9:00 — Introduction

Practice: Motivation: Align

Attention Training your values and work

How do you develop Exercise: Alignment

emotional Intelligence? with values

Mindfulness: Moving Envisioning Practice:

from autopilot to aware Visualize your goals

Practice: Open Practice: Resilience,

Awareness recover from setbacks

Practice: Body Scan Empathy: Understand

others’ feelings and
Self-Awareness: Knowing experiences
one’s internal states
Exercise: “Just like me”

12:30 — Mindful lunch

12:30 —Mindful lunch
Self-Management:
Skillfully manage your Practice: Mindful Walking
impulses and reactions
Exercise: Empathetic
Practice: Mindful Listening Listening

Practice: Reframe and Exercise: Difficult

respond to challenges Conversations
in the moment
Leadership: Lead
Practice: Self- with compassion
Compassion
Practice:
Compassion Practice
5:00 — End of Day 1
Exercise: Leadership
Commitment

Application Brainstorm

5:00 — End of Day 2

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Our Clients

We’ve worked with organizations across many countries and industries, from technology,
energy, and banking to non-profit, biotech and medical, to insurance, gaming,
telecommunications, and many more.

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Our Reach

We have touched over 100 cities in the world with an average 4.6/5 satisfaction score.

“I would highly recommend the Search Inside Yourself program as part of any leadership
development curriculum.  The content and case studies were relevant and accessible to a
business audience. The exercises bring a surprisingly fresh approach that I found extremely
valuable. We immediately were able to incorporate the exercises into our work with teams
throughout Procter & Gamble.”

Karen Hershenson
Studio Leader, Procter & GambleTitle, Company

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Our Impact

Client Testimonial

“The SIYLI team was fantastic. Their knowledge and

experiences surrounding the subject matter were
extraordinary. They are seasoned practitioners who embody
their teachings. In addition to all the other benefits, much of
the program was geared toward improving the Emotional
Intelligence of our associates, which I am con dent can drive
business and leadership success.

The Plantronics team’s response to the class was outstanding.

I have had a great many people thank me for bringing the
class to Plantronics. ‘A class like none other,’ ‘lifelong skills for
both their business and personal lives,’ and ‘life changing’ were
some of the comments I received.

I highly recommend this training for anyone looking to improve

the way their team works together, enhance their innovative
thinking and clarity, reduce stress, improve general well-
being, manage difficult conversations and be generally more
at peace.”

Barry Margerum
Chief Strategy Officer Plantronics, Inc.

91% 89% 85%

In a survey of over
300 SIY program
participants:

reported that they improved their had an increased

had enhanced ability to ability to connect
reduce stress
clarity of mind with others

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 “I walked into the class a bit of skeptic, but
was knocked off my feet on the first day by
how powerful meditation and mindfulness
can be. Thank you for opening up a whole
Questions: new world to me. This will likely have an even
www.siyli.org bigger impact on my life outside work!”
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