SATI
Regenerative Human Development

Climate work is an endurance sport. We train teams for it.

Your team believes in the mission. SATI trains the part that is often overlooked: the capacity to work under load, recover, and stay connected.

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Regeneration starts inside the team

In a living ecosystem, every part helps the whole find its balance again after a storm. Nothing works alone. Nothing runs at full output forever.

Climate teams understand this better than anyone, and often work against it: always on, rarely recovering, each person carrying the load alone. SATI brings the logic of a healthy ecosystem into how your team works, under pressure, on real tasks.

A team that wants to regenerate the world has to start by regenerating itself.

A team talking through ideas together in a sunlit office
What SATI trains

Catching the moment, choosing the response

Your team doesn't lack information or motivation. What makes the difference is catching yourself in real time, while the pressure is on.

SATI trains people to notice what happens in the body at the moment of reaction, so they can choose how to act. Practised on real work, until it becomes the way the team works.

A bridge that turns understanding into embodiment.

The front door

Climate Resilience Lab

3 pilot slots · December 2026 to March 2027

A half day of active, body based capacity training, built on your team's real work, measured before and after, and followed up four weeks later.

WhenHalf day3 hours, on a date that suits your team
WhereMunich · Lisbonat your office, a venue, or online
Investment€950pilot rate, standard €2,400, up to 20 people, with a pilot guarantee
Pilot guarantee: conditions

For Labs booked at the pilot rate. If your team lead tells us by email, within seven days after the reflection call, that the Lab wasn't worth the time, we refund the full pilot fee within 14 days. No reasons needed. Costs paid to third parties, such as venue hire or travel, are refunded only if the proposal says so. Once per organisation. Full conditions in Part A of our terms.

Free · 45 minutes · online

Experience SATI with your team

45 minutes on a video call with your whole team, guided by one of us. It's free, and there's nothing to sign.

How the 45 minutes go

Join from the office or from home. Nobody needs to prepare anything.

  1. Check in
  2. Mapping where everyone is at
  3. A two minute reset you can use before any hard meeting
  4. Commitment on how to move forward
  5. Closing
Questions

Asked most often

We are already stretched. Can we really take half a day out?

That is usually when it matters most. The Lab works on situations your team is dealing with anyway, so the time goes into real work, not theory. Three hours, on a date that suits you.

Will this feel awkward or too spiritual for my team?

It is practical and active: movement, breath, conversation and practice in pairs. No spiritual content, and nobody has to share anything personal. Every exercise is optional.

Is this meditation?

No. Everything is active and body based.

What do we actually take home?

A reset each person can use before hard meetings, a one page team agreement for high load periods, a four week plan and a written debrief, followed by a reflection call after four weeks.

What if it doesn't work for us?

Pilots come with a guarantee: if your team lead feels after the reflection call that the Lab wasn't worth the time, we refund the pilot fee.

Team

Two perspectives. One mission.

The human capacity needed for change, and the ecosystems needed to support it.

David Codesido
David Codesido
Founder · Human Resilience & Embodied Experience Lead
Isabel Burkhard
Isabel Burkhard
Co-founder · Ecosystem Development Lead
Our inspiration

A personal recommendation, from our hearts.

This page is completely separate from SATI's work. Nothing here is a SATI service, and nothing here is for sale. We share it as founders, because these courses have had a huge impact on our own lives, and we would wish the same for anyone who feels ready.

Our inspiration

Deeply inspired, clearly separate

SATI was deeply inspired by Vipassana meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka. It shaped the values behind everything we do.

SATI works with body and mind in everyday life: at work, in movement, in conversation. The deeper work of meditation deserves its own space, its own teachers and its complete form. That is why we point here, and keep it separate.

What SATI offers is not Vipassana, not a version of it and not a substitute for it. We don't teach, adapt or mix the technique, and nothing on this website should be taken as an explanation of it.

A businessman's story

S. N. Goenka

Born in 1924 in Mandalay, Burma, Goenka became a successful industrialist and a leader in his community. He also suffered from severe migraines that doctors in several countries could not treat.

In 1955 he met Sayagyi U Ba Khin, a senior government official and meditation teacher, and learned Vipassana. What began as a search for relief from pain changed how he lived, worked and led.

From 1969 he taught in India. In 2000 he spoke on spirituality in business at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and addressed the Millennium World Peace Summit of religious and spiritual leaders at the United Nations in New York. Today courses in this tradition are held in many countries around the world.

For the sceptical

What a course is, plainly

  • Ten days, residentialA full course, mostly in silence.
  • Non sectarianNo religion to join, nothing to convert to.
  • Free of chargeCourses run only on voluntary donations from people who have completed one.
  • Your own evidenceYou observe your own experience. No belief is required.
For leaders

Courses for executives

For business people and government officials there are executive courses. The technique is the same as on every ten day course. They add a talk and question and answer sessions with Goenka, himself a businessman for many years, on the stresses of working life.

The best known venue is Dhamma Pattana in Mumbai, part of the Global Vipassana Pagoda complex, where most courses are geared towards executives and professionals. Executive courses are also held in Nepal, once a year in the United Kingdom and occasionally elsewhere. Many executives simply attend a regular ten day course.

What research says

Early, honest evidence

Research on ten day Vipassana courses is still limited, and courses are not offered as treatment. But the studies that exist are worth knowing:

  • Stress and wellbeing in a community sampleParticipants of a ten day course reported lower stress and higher wellbeing, self kindness and mindfulness than a waiting group. Some gains faded after six months but stayed above where people started. A non randomised study.Szekeres and Wertheim, Stress and Health, 2015 · PubMed
  • A course inside a jailPeople who took a Vipassana course in a Seattle jail reported less alcohol and drug use after release than those receiving the usual programme.Bowen and colleagues, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2006 · PDF
  • Business and governmentThe Vipassana Research Institute has published seminar papers and studies on Vipassana in management, education and public administration. According to the institute, the Government of Maharashtra has offered Vipassana to its staff since 1996.Vipassana Research Institute · Publications
When you feel ready

No pressure. Just a door.

May all beings be happy.

SATI is not affiliated with Dhamma.org, the Vipassana Research Institute or the courses taught in the tradition of S. N. Goenka, and does not speak for them. Everything about the courses is best learned directly from dhamma.org. SATI receives no money from these organisations and gives none to them. This is simply an invitation from the heart.

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Why no meditation

Practical, active, at work

SATI trains awareness in the middle of real life: in a hard meeting, under a deadline, in movement. Everything we do is active and body based.

Meditation goes deeper, into the practice of awareness itself. It deserves its own space, its own teachers and its complete form. We love it, and we keep it separate on purpose.

For meditation, see our personal recommendation

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