Google provides various mindfulness and compassion programs to its 80,000 employees worldwide to help them live fully and perform sustainably. These include Search Inside Yourself training, mindfulness meditation sessions, and stress management resources that can be accessed both online and in person. Google aims to integrate these practices into its culture and products to make well-being resources accessible to employees wherever they are located or learning style. Evaluation shows these programs work best when they are voluntary, inclusive, and backed by scientific evidence of their impact on organizational goals like performance and culture.

1. Integrating Mindfulness and Compassion in Our Daily Lives
Ruchika Sikri
Manager, Sustainable Performance and Well-being Learning at Google

2. Simply Arrive

3. Everything Changes

4. Pay Attention

5. Life is short...
Be Kind and Curious

7. Well-being @ Google

8. 80K FT Employees
In 160 cities spanning 60 countries
Fitness Nutrition Sleep
Mental Health Learning Medical
Financial Massage Ergonomics

10. Team Mission
Equip & empower Googlers to
live fully and perform sustainably

11. ● Facilitators
● Site Leads
● Events Leads
● Email groups
Extended Team

13. ● Search Inside Yourself - 2.5 days
● Fundamentals of Mindfulness - 2 hours
● Fundamentals of Compassion - 2 hours
● gPause
○ Group Practice - 40+ global offices
○ Authors at Google
○ Mindful Lunches
○ Mindful Meetings - online 2-3 mins guided sessions
○ Headspace - mobile app
Well-being Learning - Mindfulness and Compassion Programs

14. ● gCalm - Online interactive resource to get personalized recommendations on
stress management
● Sustaining 10X - Intro to well-being - small group self-led
● DIY - Team based activities
Well-being Learning - More Programs

15. Breaking Barriers to Entry
● Classroom Learning
● Online Learning
● On-the-go resources
● Community learning
● Self-organized small group learning
Cost ~60%Reach ~60%

16. Back to Integration
● Product Design - empathylab@
● Respectful and inclusive culture
● Noogler (New Employees) Orientation
● Manager Trainings (in progress)
● Leadership Trainings (in progress)
● Features in Google products...

17. Breathing Exercise on Google Search

18. Chrome Extension

19. Lessons learned
● When it comes to Well-being - One size does not fit all
● One passionate motivated person can start the movement
● Raising awareness is the beginning... not the end - line up resources and support
● It take a village - develop internal community and cultivate external partnerships
● Meet people where they are
○ Motivation is key
○ Keep participation voluntary.
○ Keep it secular and inclusive
○ Back it with science
● Measure the impact - Map it to organization’s goals

21. Closing Practice