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Body Maps in various forms have been used for thousands of years by people searching for a better understanding of their bodies and their place in the world. This weekend intensive combines self-reflection, artistic expression, and an anthropological lens in order to help you develop a visual ethnographic 'map' of your life. In its basic form, Body Mapping involves drawing one's body outline onto a large paper or canvas and then working with paint, charcoal, markers, pictures, symbols, and words to visually chart the texture, terrain and topography of our embodied experiences. Body Mapping is a pathway to both understanding and sharing our lived stories.

In the face of social, economic, environmental, and public health upheavals, many of us are experiencing an unprecedented degree of uncertainty, isolation, and stress affecting academic and day-to-day life. Challenging times ask us, in a voice louder than usual, to identify sources of strength and develop practices that sustain and even liberate. In this experiential, project-oriented class: Explore practices to find true ground and enact positive change for self and community; Cultivate natural capacities of presence, courage, and compassion; Develop resources to share with one another and the entire Stanford community.

The wildfires in Maui created significant problems for teachers and their classrooms. Collaborating with three Maui schools, we will use Behavior Design methods to give tools, relief, and hope to educators on the island. Enrollment for this class is by application. Contact bjfogg@stanford.edu for more information.

This interdisciplinary and practice-based course develops foundational life skills that enable students to realize their potential in school, work, and life in the 21st century. Research over the last few decades has shown that one's ability to thrive is highly correlated with growing and developing as a person: emotionally, socially, cognitively, and psychophysically. This course fosters inner growth through a specific form of evidence-based meditation called Transcendental Meditation, shown to enhance awareness, creativity, resilience, and balance. Students will also develop key communication, relationship building, and collaboration skills. The course features recent research on holistic human development, neuroscience of performance, and integrative leadership. Its design is based on a training program utilized by thousands of leaders of larger established organizations, venture backed startups, NGO's, and government agencies. This integrative approach to leadership development can reduce stress and lead to emotional balance, mental clarity, and increased effectiveness in life pursuits.

Do you have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or experience daytime fatigue? Sleep is a basic form of human nourishment that affects every aspect of performance. This course covers rudimentary neuroscience while focusing on techniques to enhance sleep quality, including yoga, breathwork, and meditation. Students will track their sleep, noting the most effective methods, culminating in a personalized, comprehensive sleep strategy.

Purpose is not a singular thing; it's a way of living with what matters at the center. Investigate and own your unique journey for purpose. Explore the connection between an inner journey for compassionate self-understanding and an outer focus on engaging with the world. In this highly interactive class, we will create a supportive and inclusive community from which you can investigate the contemplative, psychological, social, and communal factors that deepen meaning-making, support authenticity, and encourage living more purposefully. Drawing from disciplines as diverse as art, poetry, design, contemplative practice, sociology, and positive psychology, we will cultivate skills that promote wellbeing and flourishing at Stanford and beyond.

Introduces diverse forms of meditation practice in both theory (contemplative neuroscience, phenomenological traditions) and practice. Practices in guided imagery, compassion, loving kindness, positive emotion, mindfulness and mantra meditation will be offered to enhance stress management and well-being. While meditation practices emerge from religious traditions, all practice and instruction will be secular.

Compassion meditation is an ancient, much studied practice of cultivating care for all beings, including ourselves. This course introduces the various dimensions of compassion and mindfulness meditation, emphasizing experiential learning of practices to increase awareness, shift negative thought patterns, increase self-compassion, relate more skillfully with difficult others, and connect to common humanity. Students will explore the rigorous current research on compassion and discuss how compassion translates to action.

Introduces diverse forms of meditation practice in both theory (contemplative neuroscience, phenomenological traditions) and practice. Selected practices in focused attention, mindfulness, guided imagery, compassion, loving kindness, positive emotion, and/or mantra meditation will be offered to enhance focused attention, insight, stress management, and well-being. Takes place in a weekend immersion format (on campus), which allows more immersive exploration of the topic space. While meditation practices emerge from religious traditions, all practice and instruction will be secular.

Explore the intersection of queerness, sexuality and wellbeing. Learn skills and practices to associate queerness with thriving and flourishing. This course integrates empirical psychological and neuroscientific research, community history, and health psychoeducation to provide frameworks for exploration. An interactive structure supports the reflection and development of your relationship with self, community, and queerness.

This class will offer important life skills centering the needs, experiences and challenges of BIPOC students. Skills/topics covered may include communication and relationship skills, interviewing for jobs, self- and community-care, and cooking/meal planning. These topics will all be addressed through the lens of the particular needs and experiences of BIPOC students. Impact of systemic racism & historical trauma will be integrated into the curriculum as well as connection with ancestors/community, cultural pride, and skills for resilience. In connection with this class, students will be offered opportunities and guidance/financial support to design their own projects to enhance the long-term flourishing of BIPOC students on campus.

What is it like to savor life and build on a positive relationship with food? Explore how mindfulness practice and intuitive eating principles can bring awareness to factors that influence mind-body health and well-being. This experiential class covers topics ranging from inner and outer wisdom, self-assessment of hunger and satiety, critical thinking about food-related media messages, stress, and transitions as they influence eating habits. The art and science of mindful eating emphasizes translating theory and research into lifestyle practices.

This course will ground you in the knowledge, skills, and habits you need to identify and achieve your financial goals. We will infuse behavior science and psychology into our exploration of personal finance concepts (e.g., credit, debt, saving, and investing) to build your financial capability in the areas of managing money, planning ahead, making choices, and getting help. By the end of the quarter, you will have a personalized toolkit to create and refine actionable plans for increasing your financial well-being now and throughout your healthy, long life.

Presented by the Sexual Health Peer Resource Center (SHPRC) and the Weiland Health Initiative, this class is open to all interested in sex and sexual health and required of students planning to become counselors at the SHPRC. Course addresses sexual and reproductive anatomy, sexually transmitted infections, contraceptive methods, menstruation, pregnancy, abortion, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual assault and abuse, consent and communication, societal stigmas and pressure, kink, toys, and pleasure. Students are equipped to make responsible decisions about their own sexual interactions and to advise others appropriately. Course includes lecture series feupdateaturing guest experts, in-person instruction, and discussion. Discussion, role-play, and peer-education outreach project support application of knowledge and development of counseling skills.

Translate theoretical knowledge and acquired skills into actionable wellness projects that enhance an aspect of wellness within the Stanford community. Students work in collaborative groups or individually under the mentorship of the course instructor(s) to design, deliver, and evaluate a wellness initiative at Stanford.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular quarter. May be repeated with change of content. For more information regarding specific course titles and topics, please refer to the notes of each course section.