SAP Global Mindfulness Practice
Enable lasting success and wellbeing at work and in life
Help ensure your workforce is thriving, happy, and resilient in a rapidly-changing global economy with experts from the SAP Global Mindfulness Practice.
14,700
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SAP employees trained at the two-day “SIY” course virtually and in more than 56 locations
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Mindfulness Ambassadors in 35+ locations
10,500
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Active participants in our virtual community
Improve people’s lives with mindfulness expertise
The SAP Global Mindfulness Practice program shares SAP’s own experience in establishing mindfulness practices in a global organisation. This initiative offers best-practice models to help deliver mindfulness-based programmes that make a positive social and economic contribution while enabling employees to thrive in a connected world.
- Help leaders solve complex problems
- Build resilient teams in times of rapid change
- Support personal development in the workplace
- Enhance self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- Strengthen mental and emotional well being
Help your employees unlock their potential
What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness reduces your tendency to react on autopilot, allowing you to choose how you respond without dwelling on worries for the future or memories of the past.
History and objectives
Beginning in 2012 as a grassroots initiative to help employees thrive in a rapidly changing global economy, our mindfulness program is now deeply anchored in SAP’s culture.
Highly-trained mindfulness instructors
In partnership with the not-for-profit Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI), we’ve trained selected SAP employees in the emerging field of teaching mindfulness in corporations.
Integrated Mindfulness Practices at SAP
In these videos, learn how your team's culture can benefit from mindfulness practices just by integrating simple techniques – inspired by siyli.org – that bring positivity and productivity to your workday.
Noting Difficult Emotions
In this video, learn how you and your team's culture can benefit from mindfulness practices just by integrating simple techniques that bring positivity and productivity to your workday.
Three breaths
Take three mindful breaths to refresh, be more present, and make a choice about what to do next.
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Mindful walking
Learn how to reduce stress and become energised just by taking a mindful walk.
Mindful eating
Learn how to pay attention to the experience of eating and drinking, even when you're busy.
Head-body-heart check-in
Learn how to create a moment of higher-resolution self-awareness before presentations or important conversations.
Build mindfulness into your organisational culture
Community
With 70+ certified trainers and more than 95+ mindfulness ambassadors at more than 35 SAP locations, we have a thriving community of experts that can offer training on-site or virtually.
Program language
Trainings are based on contemporary neuroscience and scientific evidence, program content is strictly secular, and sessions are held in an appropriate business language.
Program governance
As we deliver training across diverse cultures, we set clear roles, responsibilities, and behavioural guidelines and only accept preapproved and evidence-based content.
Integration with corporate culture
We help firms integrate training into everyday corporate culture, encouraging employees to see mindfulness as part of a healthy routine – like diet and exercise.
Explore our services
In response to customer demand, SAP Global Mindfulness Practice now helps businesses establish mindfulness practices rooted in contemporary neuroscience that help employees adapt to change during digital transformation.
- Two-day mindfulness-based training courses
- Consulting on setting up mindfulness practices
- Keynote speaking at events and conferences
- Train-the-trainer programmes
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