Based on neuroscience and recommended by hundreds of thousands around the world, Search Inside Yourself offers tools and practices for resilience, essential self-care, connection and mental well-being.

The interactive and transformational SIY program shares practical mindfulness, emotional intelligence and self-compassion tools, enabling you to put yourself first and show up the way you want to.

We're proud to partner with UC San Diego's Center for Mindfulness, which offers mindfulness and contemplative programs for the community throughout the San Diego region. This program is open to all humans, from all backgrounds. We also strongly encourage individuals from the public sector (e.g. working in healthcare, education, civil service, justice, social activism) to join. We are interested in serving and collaborating with you!

By Participating You Will:

Develop your emotional intelligence skills
Build healthy habits to support your mental well-being
Identify your personal motivations and determine how they can support you in your work
Explore how to navigate difficult relationships with more ease
Strengthen your interpersonal skills, like empathy with supportive boundaries
Cultivate your capacity to be a compassionate and effective leader
Learn practical stress-management techniques
Find joy and fulfillment at work and in life
Connect with a global community

Program Journey

2 Live Sessions: SIY begins with a two-day live, interactive program where you'll learn from experienced teachers, engage in experiential-based learning and connect with a global community.
28-Day Practice Period: The live program is followed by an online learning period where you'll receive daily practices to help you integrate what you learned at the live sessions.
Capstone Webinar: The program concludes with a 1-hour webinar where you'll reconnect with fellow participants, share your experience and gain additional tools to continue to apply your learnings.

Live In-Person Sessions

The live sessions are on Nov 8th and 9th, 2024 from 9:00am - 5:00pm PT each day.

Location of Program

University of California San Diego Health Building (Population Health)

Suite 170-- Room 128/129

Address: 6333 Greenwich Drive, San Diego, CA 92122

Google Directions Found Here

Park right when you enter the lot (building on left-6333). Free parking.
Walk down the pathway between the buildings and look for signage directing you to the check in table.

Course Expectations

To fully participate and get the most out of the program, we recommend that you:

Attend all live sessions
Minimize distractions and unplug from other devices so you can give your full attention
The program is experiential and includes both group discussion and guided meditations.

Special Discounts

The program costs cover the in-person venue, light snacks, and beverages on both days. There are special discounted tickets available on the registration page for current UCSD students, staff, and faculty. And in honor of Veteran's Day, which falls around the time of this program, we are offering discounted tickets for veterans and VA staff. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, you can get more information here.

Note: if cancellations are needed, you may request a full refund up to one week before the event (due to Humanitix policy, processing fees will not be refunded).

The Teachers

Shannon Jordan is board certified coach and leadership development consultant with an extensive background in talent development and employee engagement. She spent 8 years at Qualcomm supporting employees, teams and leaders across the globe to tap into higher levels of performance in their work by leveraging emotional intelligence, positive psychology and neuroscience-based mindfulness practices. Shannon now consults across private and public industry sectors, having facilitated programs for organizations such as eBay, PayPal, StubHub, Oracle, Genentech, Monster Media, AMEX, Kaiser Permanente, Welk Resorts, CalSTRS, and the Port of San Diego. Shannon holds a bachelors degree in business and a masters degree in counseling psychology. She is a contributing author to the book Building Workforce Strength, and spent several years as an Ask-the-Expert columnist on workplace issues for USAToday.com. Prior to moving into organizational work, Shannon served as a program director at UCSD Extended Studies and taught on the adjunct faculty at USD School of Leadership for many years. Currently, she teaches mindful leadership at both UCSD Rady School of Management Executive Education and UC Irvine Extension. Shannon completed teacher training in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) through UCSD Center for Mindfulness and has had a personal mindfulness practice for nearly 15 years. Shannon has traveled the world extensively and lived in Singapore but is at home in Solana Beach where she lives with her husband and teen daughter.

Jakey Toor is an SIY Global (Google, 2007) certified mindfulness teacher, ICF / Strozzi Institute Somatic coach (in training), and used to be a professional dancer, and dance teaching artist — working with the public sector for 7 years, teaching dance to thousands of San Francisco Unified's underserved students, earning the prestigious Dream Catcher Award for inspiring San Francisco’s youth. An avid blogger & studier of culture (the Artists In The Classroom blog series), she went on to found a company of the same name, devoted to cultivating conscious leadership, and wellness, in individuals and organizations. Jakey practices TM, and is a contributing member of the Conscious Leadership Guild, a professional organization committed to furthering the practice of Conscious Leadership world-wide, as well as an active participant in the Bay Area Wisdom 2.0 community, and long-time practitioner of Strozzi Somatics. She graduated with honors from UCSD, with an M.Ed. in 2008, and a bachelors in 2002, and was featured on Hera Hub’s Flight Club Podcast: Meaningfully Breaking the Rules in the Public Sector, in 2018. Regarding the every day — in addition to dance, and exercise — she loves writing, photography, organizing, and walking — having walked the Camino de Santiago, and / or portions of it, 3 times, and has lost over 50lbs! She taught the SIY Program at a variety of premier Education and Health Care institutions including La Jolla Country Day School, Marin Academy, Marin Country Day School, Cal Poly, and a 5-Program series for the Mayo Clinic.

Have questions? Reach out to us at info@siyli.org.