Why SMART?
SMART has the following features that enhance its appeal to the users:
Ease of Adoption and Practice:
Short training time: The basic program can be taught to the end user in four 30-minutes sessions or a single two-hour session
Novel and engaging: The concepts and skills are thoughtfully designed to avoid cliché and jargon, are highly engaging, and ‘sticky’
Integrated approach: The practices are integrated in daily routine with each practice being only few seconds to few minutes long
Relationship-centric: The skills are designed to enhance relationships with self and others
Secular: The concepts and language are secular and accessible to most
Ease of Scalability Across a Broad Spectrum of Scenarios and Audiences:
Suited to work place: The program is designed to integrate well within workplace to help enhance professionalism, engagement, and productivity
Highly scalable: The skills can be taught individually or in groups that range from a few to several hundred
Several different models: Availability in several different models, offering customizable approach for most individuals and entities
College students: High acceptance by children and college students; pediatric version is in development
Broad application: Clinically offered every year to over 40,000 learners for resilience, wellbeing, and better work performance, and to over 5,000 patients and caregivers for better coping and disease modification
Based on Extensive Cutting-Edge Research:
Scientifically rooted: Deeply anchored in science, particularly neurosciences, evolutionary biology, and psychology
Research evidence: Tested and found effective in over twenty clinical trials with about a dozen studies published in peer-reviewed journals, showing promising effectiveness for a breadth of outcomes (stress, resilience, anxiety, mindfulness, wellbeing, happiness, positive health behaviors, burnout, self-reported productivity, and depressive symptoms)
Online version of the program found effective in three research studies
Self-study program found effective in a research study
Ready for broader dissemination:
Train-the-trainer: Train-the-trainer program is fully developed with over 400 learners trained
Complete suite of products: Print, digital, and in-person programs have been utilized by hundreds of thousands of users
Refined and disseminated for over a decade after initial development
In designing SMART, we have avoided the following challenges for the end users: Long training duration; significant daily time commitment; difficult practices that often aren’t integrated in life; low engagement; high cost; limited scalability; rooted in specific traditions limiting widespread acceptance; ritualistic approaches, limited scientific backing.
We have reached over 500,000 participants with in-person SMART training and bring learnings from a broad spectrum of industries to help your organization with stress, resilience, and burnout solutions