Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training for Decision Making and Leadership
Overview:
In a world of constant pressure, information overload, and digital distraction, it’s easy to lose touch with ourselves — our bodies, our emotions, and what truly matters.
Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT) offers a structured way to reconnect with presence, purpose, and clarity.
Developed for professionals and individuals navigating complex and demanding lives, MBSAT goes beyond conventional stress management. It trains the mind to observe and regulate internal experiences — sensations, emotions, thoughts, and attention — and to make decisions that are aligned with one’s values and goals.
Drawing on contemporary psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness research, MBSAT integrates guided mindfulness practices with reflective exercises to strengthen three core capacities:
• Awareness and regulation of body, emotion, thought, and attention (BETA)
• Insight into automatic beliefs and habits that shape perception and behavior
• Wiser decision-making grounded in clarity, compassion, and intention
Through cultivating these inner capacities, participants learn to engage with challenges more skillfully, sustain focus and perspective under pressure, and foster a deeper sense of meaning and balance in both work and life.
Is This Course For You?
What You’ll Gain
The program focuses on key mechanisms that drive sustainable change:
• Awareness and regulation of body, emotion, thought, and attention (BETA) — including interoceptive and emotional awareness.
• Greater awareness of beliefs and habits — recognizing and transforming unhelpful mental and behavioral patterns.
• Wiser decision-making — acting with intention and values alignment rather than reactivity.
Through these mechanisms, participants experience measurable benefits such as:
• Reduced stress and emotional reactivity
• Improved sleep and mental clarity
• Greater emotional balance and resilience
• Freedom from unhelpful habits and rumination
• Sustainable performance grounded in well-being
• Stronger connection to self and others
Why MBSAT?
MBSAT builds upon mindfulness to enhance flourishing and strategic awareness — the capacity to live and work with clarity, meaning, and wise action. It’s a next-generation mindfulness program designed for the challenges of modern professionals who want not only to cope, but to thrive.
Who This Course Is For?
This course is for you if you:
• Feel mentally or emotionally exhausted and want to restore clarity and calm.
• Struggle with overthinking, anxiety, or difficulty sleeping.
• Seek more balance, meaning, and connection in your life and work.
• Want to build mindful habits that support focus, resilience, and self-care.
• Are curious about mindfulness but prefer a structured, evidence-based, and practical approach.
No prior experience in meditation is required. The course is open to all adults and especially suited for professionals managing stress, change, and uncertainty.
What to Expect
The program unfolds across eight experiential sessions that combine:
• Guided mindfulness practices to train focus, awareness, and emotional balance.
• Short theoretical inputs grounded in modern psychology and neuroscience.
• Reflection and discussion to connect insights to real-life challenges.
• Home practices to integrate mindfulness into daily routines.
Each session builds on the previous one — moving from awareness of body and emotions, to understanding thought patterns, habits, and beliefs to cultivating clarity, compassion, and strategic awareness for a more intentional and flourishing life.
Learning Outcomes
After completing the course, you will be able to:
• Recognize stress patterns and respond more calmly.
• Develop greater awareness of body, mind, and emotions.
• Manage worry and overthinking
• Strengthen self-regulation and resilience.
• Build mental habits and actual behaviors that enhance focus and well-being.
• Improve relationships with loved ones and at work
• Integrate mindfulness into daily life, work, and leadership.
• Create conditions for sustainable flourishing in work and life.
Mindfulness-Based Strategy Workshop at a Global Multinational Corporation.
| Course | Weekday | Dates / Times | Location | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MBSAT 2026 Intake 1 | Tuesdays | Weekly Sessions (Tuesdays): Jan 27 | Feb 3, 10, 17| Mar 3, 17, 24, 31 Time: 9:30am – 1:30pm | Onsite at SMU *Kindly note some sessions might move to online | Co-Teach by Jochen Reb |
SMU is conveniently located in the city centre and easily accessible via public transportation (e.g., MRT stations Bras Basah, Bencoolen, City Hall, and Dhoby Ghaut). In case you intend to arrive by car, feel free to contact us about car parking options at SMU (mindfulness@smu.edu.sg).
In case you have any acute or chronic mental or physical illness, you are required to approach Mindfulness Initiative @ SMU to arrange a conversation with your course instructor (via email, phone, or face-to-face) to determine whether this course is suitable for you. Instructors may, at their discretion, not accept individuals into the course. In such cases, a full refund of the course fee will be given.
Mindfulness Initiative @ SMU may have to cancel a course if not enough participants sign up. Cancellations will be announced as soon as a cancellation decision has been made and can be made up until the day before the course starts. In case of cancellation, a full refund of the course fee will be given.
Course Instructors
Next to being an MBSAT teacher, Eva is a doctoral student in business at SMU, specializing in organizational behavior studies. As an instructor and researcher, she studies and teaches mindfulness, well-being, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Her work is informed and inspired by her experiences as mindfulness and certified yoga teacher and practitioner, co-founder, and startup employee. She holds a Master's Degree in psychology & management and a Bachelor's degree in business & economics. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D. at SMU, she worked as a co-founder in the e-commerce and manufacturing space and in sales and marketing roles in different industries both for established firms and startups.
Through her work, Eva supports individuals in finding their path to living healthy, connected, balanced, and sustainably productive lives and I help entrepreneurs and organizations establish practices and routines that create a work environment where their employees can thrive.
You are welcome to reach out to me to learn about her research or if you are interested in collaborations related to teaching, research, or workshops on mindfulness, well-being, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
Course Fees
The fee for this course is $695 (inclusive of GST).
Cancellation, Refund, Transfer, and Withdrawal Policy:
All cancellations must be received in writing via email to mindfulness@smu.edu.sg before the start of the first session of the course. A refund of the course fee minus administrative charges of $100 will be given if the cancellation is received in writing at the latest four days (96 hours) before the start of the first course session (not including any orientation session). No refunds will be given for cancellations later than four days (96 hours) before the start of the first course session. Processing time of the refund of course fees minus administrative charges would take 6 to 8 weeks. Participants may withdraw from a course at any time. In the case of withdrawal, no refund and no certificate of completion will be given. Sometimes, participants request transfer to a later course or to take specific sessions in a later course. Such arrangements are complicated, partly because most of our courses are fully booked. Therefore, consideration of such requests will be at our sole discretion and participants may not transfer into or take specific sessions during the next course or any later courses unless with our explicit permission.
