Please join the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI) in Barcelona for two days of personal and professional development focused on building healthy mental habits for sustained high performance and wellbeing. Developed at Google and based on neuroscience research, the Search Inside Yourself (SIY) program teaches attention and mindfulness training that build the core emotional intelligence skills needed for effective leadership.
We help professionals at all levels adapt, management teams evolve and leaders optimize their impact and influence. Give us your attention for a few days, and we’ll show you how to focus it for the rest of your life.
Curriculum
The SIY curriculum includes:
- Neuroscience
- Mindfulness
- Emotional Intelligence
- Leadership
We've implemented our programs in dozens of organizations across industries and around the world using highly practical and scientifically proven methods of mental conditioning and attention training that improve overall emotional intelligence and wellbeing, resilience, creativity, communication, productivity and personal and organizational leadership.
Program Design
Everyone has the capacity to develop and increase wellbeing because wellbeing is a skill, and all skills are trainable.
The highly interactive and experiential program includes the following core components:
- Overview of the neuroscience of emotion, perception and behavior change
- Definition of emotional intelligence and its personal and professional benefits
- Attention training to enable greater emotional intelligence, including self-awareness, self-mastery, motivation and connection with self and others
- Principles and practices for developing healthy mental habits that accelerate wellbeing, including effective listening, generosity, empathy, communication and social skills
- Mindfulness and reflection practices that support happiness and thriving and overall wellbeing
- Exercises include attention training practice, dyad conversations, writing, walking, and group conversations
Outcomes
Whether you are coming for personal or professional development or to check out the SIY program for your organization, you will learn foundational skills to:
- Enhance mental fitness and clarity
- Develop agile and adaptive mindsets
- Reduce stress responses
- Increase resilience
- Improve access to creativity
- Develop greater self awareness
- Enhance emotion regulation
- Improve communication skills
- Develop better decision-making skills
- Develop greater emotional intelligence
- Experience greater overall wellbeing, thrive!
Search Inside Yourself is now accredited by the International Coaching Federation. Coaches now receive 12.33 Continuing Coaching Education credits when attending SIY! Find more information here.
Logistics
- Schedule: The program schedule on both November 26 and 27 is from 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM with a lunch break from 1:30 to 3:00 PM
- Language: The program will be held in English.
- Food: Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided during the sessions. Lunch will not be provided. There are many restaurants within walking distance.
- Transportation: METRO María Cristina (L3) | BUS 7, 33, 63, 67, 78, 33, 34
Group Discounts
Contact us for information about special group rates for your organization.
Scholarships
SIYLI believes in radical generosity. When you purchase a ticket to attend, you are supporting scholarships for individuals who cannot afford the full price of a ticket. Scholarship applications will be open while spots are available. Please apply here.
Teachers
Meg Levie is an executive coach, ordained Zen priest, and master facilitator of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership program. She joined the Search Inside Yourself Institute (SIYLI) in 2012, helping grow the organization from its founding and serving as VP of teacher development. She has trained over 150 SIY teachers and has designed and implemented multiple internal train-the-trainer programs at Google and SAP, resulting in widespread scaling of the SIY program to thousands of employees worldwide.
In her roles as an executive coach, adviser, and trainer, she has worked with leaders from companies ranging from growth to Fortune 500, including Google, SAP, LinkedIn, Nike, Twitter, Genentech, Zynga, Nielsen, Bain and Co., Farmers Insurance, and the Stanford Health Care Alliance.
José Antonio Aguilar is a pioneer in the introduction of Search Inside Yourself (SIY) in Spain, promoting and teaching SIY public programs and in-company programs in both English and Spanish in Spain and internationally.
A Fulbright Scholar, he holds a Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona (Spain) and a Master of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States). He worked as a Product Engineer at AT&T Microelectronics, both in the United States and Spain, leading R&D, manufacturing, and quality improvement projects.
With more than 20 years of experience in yoga and meditation, he has deepened his mindfulness practice and teaching skills by attending meditation courses and retreats in various contemplative traditions, as well as a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher Training program in 2014, and SIYLI’s Search Inside Yourself Certified Teacher Training program in 2015.
Program Outline
For more information about Search Inside Yourself, visit www.siyli.org
Refund Policy
If you're unable to attend a program that you've registered and paid for, you can transfer it to another participant: Tickets are fully transferable to another person at any time. Please contact us to give us the name and email of the attendee in your place.
Should you wish to cancel your ticket, you are eligible to receive a refund less a 10% cancellation fee until six weeks prior to the event start date.
If you cancel between three to six weeks prior to the event start date, the cancellation fee will be 50%.
No cancellations will be accepted within three weeks prior to the event start date.
Registrations are not transferable between programs and we are unable to provide credit for future programs.
