10-week SIY Online Program
starting Feb 12 & 16, 2021
Search Inside Yourself
Navigating today’s uncertainty and stress requires new skills and a new level of resilience.
Support yourself and your team with the world-renowned Search Inside Yourself (SIY) mindfulness-based emotional intelligence training. The results oriented program is designed to empower individuals and teams, and transform entire workplaces. Enhance your well-being, leadership, resilience, motivation and connection, and thrive in work and life.
SIY is a transformational experience backed by world experts in neuroscience, mindfulness and emotional intelligence. You will learn to develop skills that are critical for personal and professional development today: focus, empathy, compassion, resilience, leadership and more, which have a positive impact helping to promote sustainable well-being, motivation and high performance for individuals, teams and organizations.
I highly recommend Search Inside Yourself to anyone looking to improve the way their team works together, enhance their innovative thinking and clarity, reduce stress, improve general wellbeing, manage difficult conversations, and be generally more at peace.
Barry Margerum
Chief Strategy Officer Plantronics
10-week SIY Online Programs starting February 12 & 16, 2021
Search Inside Yourself is usually offered as 2-day event.
This 10-week series provides a special opportunity to deeply integrate the practical tools into your work and life over a longer period, for sustainable change of habits & personal growth.
Your facilitators Isabell Dittmar and Bernie Schreck are two of a select handful of SIY teachers who are also certified Goleman EI coaches. This gives them additional depth of insight and knowledge in the field, and enables them to provide further ongoing personalized coaching and training to you. Next to SIY, they design workshops, keynotes and coaching customized to the special needs of your organization – in English, German, Spanish and French. You will find their biographies at the end of this page.
Dates and Times
Program Details
- 6x 2.5h weekly workshops (online, via Zoom).
- Followed by 4-weeks of integration phase (daily exercises & content delivered via email).
- Concluding with a Capstone webinar (online, via Zoom) to provide an opportunity to reflect on the training experience and to commit on how to continue to integrate the skills you learned into life.
- Delivered in English by two certified SIY teachers.
Option 1:
- Feb. 12 – Mar. 19, 2021; weekly + Apr. 23, 2021
- Fridays 3:30pm – 6:00pm CET
Note: 3:30 pm CET = 6:30 pm Dubai / 2:30 pm London / 9:30 am New York / 8:30 am Chicago / 6:30 am Los Angeles
(Find the time in your location)
Option 2:
- Feb. 16 – Mar. 23, 2021; weekly + Apr. 27, 2021
- Tuesdays 11:30am – 2:00pm CET
Note: 11:30 am CET = 2:30 pm Dubai / 10:30 am London
(Find the time in your location)
Program language: English
Videoconferencing platform: Zoom
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Originally developed at Google, Search Inside Yourself teaches practical mindfulness, emotional intelligence and leadership tools to unlock your full potential at work and in life.
Search Inside Yourself (SIY) was born at Google in 2007 when one of Google’s earliest engineers, Chade-Meng Tan, gathered a team of leading experts in mindfulness, neuroscience, leadership and emotional intelligence to develop an internal course for fellow Google employees to create the conditions for individual and collective thriving.
In 2012, due to success of the program and the high demand for SIY from external organizations, Google spun off the program and founded the independent non-profit educational institute they called The Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI).
Since then, SIYLI has become a globally recognized institute, operating in over 50 countries across continents, with tens of thousands of people attending its programs and events. SIYLI continues to work with Google as well as SAP, the United Nations, Procter & Gamble, Salesforce and many more corporate, nonprofit and government organizations around the world.
Program
Structure
SIY starts with a highly interactive live (online or in-person) training followed by a four-week online journey. It is highly interactive, including experiential exercises, dyads, group conversations, attention-training practices and writing activities.
Program
Overview
Search Inside Yourself takes an evidence-based approach combining neuroscience, attention-training and emotional intelligence. The program provides practical tools that can be applied immediately in life or at work. We start with a foundation of mindfulness, and build the core emotional intelligence domains that lead to outstanding leadership:
Mindfulness is the ability to stay present and be aware of what’s happening as it’s happening. It is the foundation for all the emotional intelligence domains. This is one of the areas where we notice the greatest improvement for Search Inside Yourself program participants.
- Notice when your attention is pulled away, and return it to the present moment.
- Learn how to keep your attention focused on a task from start to finish.
- Become better at listening to others without being occupied with other thoughts.
Enhance your perception of your own emotions, habits and behaviors, while learning how to gather useful “data” from unpleasant emotions that arise from setbacks without becoming overwhelmed by them.
- Become comfortable with emotional responses.
- Be able to accurately assess your thoughts, behaviors and emotions.
- Develop self-confidence.
Learn how to identify and work with emotional “triggers” and other difficult situations. Experiment with a number of practices for working in emotionally charged situations.
- Learn to pause before reacting to your emotional triggers.
- Develop inner strength and ability to productively deal with difficult situations.
- Increase your resilience and ability to respond to setbacks.
Discover and hone the values that drive your actions so your work and life are aligned with your values and emotional tendencies.
- Increase engagement and performance.
- Learn practices to dream big and increase motivation.
- Practice emotional and cognitive resilience to feel empowered to reach your goals.
Empathy allows us to be in tune with how others are feeling and to understand their perspectives. It can help improve our social interactions on many levels, and grow collaboration, connection and effective leadership, while supporting diverse teams to be more inclusive. The SIY program explains the neuroscience of empathy and how to develop habits to increase it in daily interactions.
- Understand the neuroscience of empathy.
- Develop the mental habits of kindness, goodwill and objectivity.
- Learn to attune to the emotional undertones in relationships.
At Search Inside Yourself, we believe everyone is a leader. Whether we have a formal role inside an organization, lead efforts in the communities where we live, manage activities for our families or lead our own lives, we all lead in some ways and can improve these skills. The Search Inside Yourself program teaches leadership skills including how to better collaborate and work with other people, manage conflict and have difficult conversations.
You will learn to influence those around you with compassion, even while making difficult decisions, and how to communicate with greater insight into the different layers of emotions, perspectives and identity that drive relationships.
- Become skillful at influencing with compassion.
- Gain confidence in creating a positive outcome in conversations where strong emotions are present.
- Develop emotional courage to lead others.
The SIY Impact Report
Search Inside Yourself has been described as “life changing.” It allows for deep transformations through accessible and practical content. The tools, practices, resources and exercises you’ll learn in the Search Inside Yourself program will help to:
A study involving over 6,100 Search Inside Yourself global program participants demonstrates the positive impact the program has on mindfulness, emotional intelligence, resilience, stress management, empathy and many more dimensions.
Here are three examples of the many positive results
described in the Impact Report:
Stress
Surveyed participants reported a reduced level of stress after the Search Inside Yourself program. Through practices primarily around mindfulness, self-awareness and self-management, the program helps individuals increase well-being.
Resilience
Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. Search Inside Yourself teaches practical techniques to help develop emotional resilience, cognitive resilience, equanimity and inner calm.
Empathy
Empathy allows us to be in tune with how others are feeling. It can help improve our social interactions on many levels, such as communication and connection. The SIY program explains the neuroscience of empathy and how to develop habits to increase it in daily interactions.
Benefits of Mindfulness
and Emotional Intelligence
In addition to the results we see directly from Search Inside Yourself programs, the benefits of mindfulness and emotional intelligence have been researched for many years.
Mindfulness leads to greater well-being
The connection between mindfulness and well-being has been a consistent finding in almost 10 years of research. One study found that two weeks of mindfulness training increased well-being, decreased emotional exhaustion at work, and even increased job satisfaction (Hulsheger et al., 2012).
Mindfulness has been found to increase brain cortex thickness and activation in regions associated with emotional awareness and emotion management (Tang et al., 2015)
Emotional intelligence correlates
with better teamwork and leadership
Training in the emotional intelligence skill of compassion has been shown to reduce interpersonal stress and improve relationships (Singer 2016; Kok et al. 2013).
Greater Emotional intelligence has been correlated with higher manager and leader performance (Kerr, Garvin, Heaton, & Boyle, 2006; Rosete & Ciarrochi, 2005).
Mindfulness can lead to more
creative and innovative thinking
In a survey conducted by the Institute of Mindful Leadership, 93% of leaders reported that mindfulness training helped them create space for innovation, and nearly 70% said it helped them to think strategically (Institute for Mindful Leadership Survey).
At the end of this page you can sign-up to our email list and receive the full SIY Impact report with the complete results and methodology from our survey studies of the impact of the Search Inside Yourself program:
“I have been very fortunate to study with some of the world’s best mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence teachers. The tools I learned have helped me personally manage stress, overcome anxiety and create a successful, fulfilling and meaningful life. And my extensive training and over 25 years of experience teaching people enable me to skillfully guide you to do the same and achieve your goals.”
Bernie Schreck, M.A.
Founder & President of MBEID
Goleman EI Certified Coach
Search Inside Yourself (SIY) Certified Teacher
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher
“In 25 yrs. as leader and coach I have seen how EQ makes the difference – in business and life. It can be trained, also in adults. My job – and passion – is to show you how. So that you can live the life and work you love.” – Isabell Dittmar
“I highly recommend Isabell to anyone who is looking to develop their professional and personal life!“ – Mathias Cherbuin, CTO
Isabell Dittmar, M.Sc.
Founder & CEO Dittmar Consult
Search Inside Yourself (SIY) Certified Teacher
Goleman EI Certified Coach & Associate
Certified Agile Coach
Certified Systemic Coach
About Isabell:
Isabell is an expert in the triangle of emotional intelligence, human transformation and business transformation. With 20 years of executive coaching and 25 years of international leadership roles in the automotive, machine, packaging and retail industry and in strategy consulting, she brings a full 360 view into her workshops and coachings – and tons of empathy.
Isabell has accompanied hundreds of participants in adopting mindfulness and emotional intelligence into their work and life – and it continues to bring her an immense joy witnessing the power of fulfilling personal transformation.
At the base a master in industrial engineering with many additional credentials, she trained with the leaders in the field of emotional intelligence, coaching & agility, and has regularly practiced mindfulness since 2000.
Isabell is one of the worldwide handful certified by partners such as Goleman EI (Emotional Intelligence Coach and Associate), the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (Teacher for the Emotional Intelligence Program born at Google and rooted in Neuroscience & Mindfulness), and Korn Ferry (Emotional Social Competency Inventory “ESCI” 360 EI Assessment), which allows her to draw on a global network of coaches and experts to scale big projects.
Having worked with many countries globally & lived in Germany, France, Spain, México & Perù, Isabell found a home in Switzerland in 2008, where she loves to go hiking and snow shoeing. She coaches and trains in English, German, Spanish & French.
About Bernie:
Bernie is a Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence teacher and coach. He is a certified teacher for Search Inside Yourself (SIY), one of the leading Mindfulness-based Emotional Intelligence trainings worldwide. He has received in-depth training and is certified to offer the Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Coaching Program and the Goleman EI Online Courses. And he brings over 6 years of experience teaching Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and over 25 years of experience in teaching meditation to his workshops and personal coaching work.
Bernie has taught workshops to people from all walks of life. During his 13 years as a non-profit Director, Bernie managed the U.S. study program for Rigpa, an international network of Buddhist meditation centers and developed a successful online education program.
His passion for teaching mindfulness and emotional intelligence arises from witnessing, again and again, how these capacities help people experience more personal fulfillment, improve their leadership abilities, and achieve greater professional success. And all of this contributes to more effective, collaborative, and successful companies.
In his free time Bernie practices meditation and Qi Gong and loves being in nature. He is an active member in the Mankind Project (MKP), an international community of men committed to self-awareness and personal growth.
Bernie is available to offer consulting, trainings and coaching to individuals and organizations worldwide in both English and German.
Working with Bernie and Isabell you will also have access to the expertise of the Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Team and the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, as well as a worldwide network of certified teachers and coaches.
Not ready to register yet? Would you like to receive the event information and reminders a few days before the early bird registration discount ends and before the late registration prices start? And, if you wish, you can also sign up to receive announcement about future events and invite-only trainings with special discounted rates.
Participant Experiences
Frequently Asked Questions
Who attends SIY events?
SIY is equally suited for employees, project managers, senior leaders, human resources professionals, entrepreneurs, private individuals.
People join Search Inside Yourself for many reasons, including personal development and experiencing the program before bringing it to their company.
Consultants, coaches and therapists also enroll in SIY to evaluate whether to adopt the principles in their own work.
Some attendees are new to mindfulness and meditation, while others are longtime practitioners.
Are there any course expectations or technical requirements?
In order to get the most out of the program and ensure a supportive program for everyone, we request that each participant:
- Attend all live sessions (if you know in advance that you will have to miss one session, please just let us know)
- Unplug from other devices and give your full attention during live class time
- Respect the confidentiality of other participants
The program will be conducted using an online video call platform, so in order to participate you must have the following available to you:
- A private computer with internet access and video conferencing facility.
- The program is designed for each person to connect from their own device so that you can participate in breakout sessions.
- At least a 3G internet connection.
- A location where you can use video and can comfortably speak with others over the computer. For example, a coffee shop or shared workroom are not ideal.
Will I receive a recording of the program?
No. In order to respect confidentiality and create a space where people feel comfortable sharing, we will not be sending a recording of the program to participants. We will, however, provide post-program resources to help you remember what you learned during the program.
Are there scholarships to your programs?
What if I am interested in attending the program but can't make these dates?
If you are interested in attending one of our online offerings but the dates and times of the currently offered trainings don’t work for you, please sign-up to our Email list, so we can send you announcements of future programs. We are also available to offer SIY in-house and additional programs and coaching in English, German, French and Spanish. Please contact us for more information.
What is your refund policy?
As we recognize that flexibility is important during this time, you can receive a full refund if requested two weeks before the event at 5pm CET.
After that, you are able to transfer the ticket to another person at any time before the program begins. You cannot transfer your ticket after the first session. Contact us to give us the name and email of the attendee taking your place.
Unfortunately, registrations are not transferable between programs, and we are unable to provide credit for future programs.