Optimize Your Mind
Developed at Google and based on the latest in neuroscience research, our program offers attention and mindfulness training that builds the core emotional intelligence skills needed for peak performance and 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.

The Curriculum
The SIYLI curriculum focuses on four primary areas:

• Neuroscience
• Mindfulness
• Emotional Intelligence
• Leadership

SIYLI delivers courses using highly practical and scientifically-proven methods of mental conditioning and attention training that improve overall emotional intelligence and well-being, resilience, creativity, communication, productivity and personal and organizational leadership.

Instructors
Marc Lesser, founder, board member and CEO of SIYLI
Mark Coleman, mindfulness consultant, executive coach and meditation teacher

The Program: Search Inside Yourself
Tuesday & Wednesday, October 28th & 29th, 9a-5p
Overview
The Search Inside Yourself program takes a science-based approach to develop the useful mental habits of lasting wellbeing. Designed and tested at Google, the program helps participants integrate the key building blocks for wellbeing: mindfulness based-emotional intelligence, mental and emotional resilience and engagement. The goal is to help participants thrive - enjoying greater productivity, effectiveness, and happiness - in all aspects of their work and outside of work. Program will take place in ABC Home's theater, Deepak HomeBase, which is located on the mezzanine level of their manhattan store. ABC Home is dedicated to creating programming that explores new science, environmental sustainability and the practice of mindfulness.

Design
The highly interactive program includes the following core components

• Overview of the neuroscience of emotion, perception and behavior change
• Definition of emotional intelligence and its benefits with regard to well-being
• 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, thriving and overall wellbeing

Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation founded in 2012 to bring Search Inside Yourself to the world. Developed at Google and based on the latest in Neuroscience research, the Search Inside Yourself programs offer attention and mindfulness training that build the core emotional intelligence skills needed for peak performance and effective leadership. We help professionals at all levels adapt, management teams evolve and leaders optimize their impact and influence.

ABC Home is an iconic NYC destination that exists as an interactive museum and a portal into collective creativity, while integrating healing, education, theater, art and other forms of interconnectivity, including the practice of mindfulness. With beauty and design as tools, ABC guides a conscious, influential participant and change-agent to creatively commit to nurturing the planet and its communities while actualizing home as a sacred space. ABC Home is committed to indigenous artistry, and its protection, with global cooperatives and global partnerships. In upcoming months, it will house a permanent collection of the calligraphies of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

About the Venue - A NYC design destination since 1897, ABC Carpet & Home offers choice at the cutting edge of art, beauty, and sustainability with 10 floors of vintage, antique, eco, one-of-a-kind, and contemporary collections. Through the preservation of indigenous artisanship, working with global cooperatives, and a commitment to environmental consciousness, ABC aims to be the catalyst in creating home as an expression of vision and values. A three-dimensional, living magazine and interactive museum, ABC serves as a portal into collective creativity, integrating healing, education, awareness, theater, and art to compose an engaged experience with our participants and our community. ABC Deepak Homebase is adorned in this spirit.