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Integrating Mindfulness and Compassion in Our Daily Lives
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.
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- 1. Integrating Mindfulness andCompassion in Our Daily Lives Ruchika Sikri Manager, Sustainable Performance and Well-being Learning at Google
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- 5. Life is short... BeKind and Curious
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- 8. 80K FT Employees In160 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 ● SiteLeads ● Events Leads ● Email groups Extended Team
- 13. ● Search InsideYourself - 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 toEntry ● 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 onGoogle Search
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- 19. Lessons learned ● Whenit 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
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Editor's Notes
- #4 "Suzuki Roshi, I've been listening to your lectures for years," a student said during the question and answer time following a lecture, "but I just don't understand. Could you just please put it in a nutshell? Can you reduce Buddhism to one phrase?" Everyone laughed. Suzuki laughed. "Everything changes," he said. Then he asked for another question.
- #5 Not just to what’s available to your senses but to your feelings, thoughts, - judgements, assumptions, etc.
- #22 Settle the mind See similarities Offer kindness