Overview
In a world of constant pressure, information overload, and digital distraction, it’s easy to lose touch with ourselves. Drawing on contemporary psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness research, Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT) Wellbeing offers a structured way to reconnect with presence, purpose, and clarity.
MBSAT goes beyond conventional stress management. By integrating guided mindfulness practices with reflective exercises it helps you develop three core capacities:
- To balance your BETA: your body, emotion, thought, and actions
- To gain insight into your deeply held beliefs and habits
- To make wiser decisions grounded in clarity, compassion, and intention
Through cultivating these inner capacities, you will learn to engage with challenges more skillfully, sustain focus and perspective under pressure, and foster a deeper sense of meaning and flourishing in both work and life.
Is This Course For You?
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.
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.
Course Dates & Times
| Course | Weekday | Dates / Times | Location | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MBSAT Wellbeing 2026 Intake 1 | Tuesdays | Weekly Sessions (Tuesdays): Jan 27 | Feb 3, 10, 24 | Mar 3, 17, 24, 31 Time: 7.00pm – 9.30pm | Onsite at SMU *Kindly note some sessions might move to online | Co-Teach by Prof. Jochen Reb |
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.
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).
Mindfulness-Based Strategy Workshop at a Global Multinational Corporation.
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.
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
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.
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.
