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WELLNESS 192: Mindful Nourishment: Training for Healthy Nutrition and Wellbeing

Intuitive Eating entails the scientific study and the application of mindfulness applied to nutrition, health, and eating through contemplative and applied practices. ¿Mindfulness¿ is a way of being engaged in our lives with greater emotional and mental balance. This course involves: 1) Participating in dialogue that cultivates shared mindfulness 2) Develop inner and outer wisdom applied to your health and eating. 3) Apply mindfulness skills to your emotional and physical health and greater well-being. These practices aim to develop greater insight, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and skillful responding. 4) Use mindfulness as way to create collaborative learning. Collaborative learning at its best is when we can listen deeply, suspend judgment, and speak authentically. When we do these, we create the conditions for meaningful dialogue and learning.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Repeatable 8 times (up to 8 units total)

WELLNESS 195: Wellness: Mind, Body, Spirit

How psychological, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual factors promote optimal wellness and flourishing. Models of integrated wellbeing (PERMA, Seligman), meditation, deep meaning making, and social dynamics of integration from interpersonal neurobiology (Siegel, Schore), contemplative neuroscience (Davidson), and secular meditation practices. Lecture and practice format surveys the theory and skills promoting wellness throughout the lifetime, including deep meaning cultivation, emotional regulation, social connection, and mind-brain-body integration.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 2
Instructors: Chima, A. (PI)

WELLNESS 200: Transformative Technology Intensive: The Future of Wellbeing

Explores the history, current trends, and future speculations on the role that modern technologies play in psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing on an individual and collective scale. From stone tools to mars rovers, technology is a defining human quality. With the same consistency, the search for wellbeing is a fundamental human impulse. In what ways do science and technology support our search for peace and happiness? Because this is a new and evolving idea space, there are no widely established theories or principles to hand down. Instead there are disparate fields from which this course is drawn, including: Contemplative Science, Neurophenomenology, Positive Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, and Brain Stimulation & Neurofeedback (usually psychiatry). Students will play an active role in discussing and developing the core questions, concerns, ethical considerations, and broad implications of technologies that can rapidly shift human consciousness on a massive global scale. Course includes direct interaction with significant technologies and major luminaries in the space.
Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 1

WELLNESS 210: The Science of Motivation

Examines factors that give rise to and sustain motivation. Cultivates the psycho-physiological factors that increase motivation, while reducing those aspects that depress it. Presents the meaning, mastery, and autonomy model of motivation in tasks engagement, plus research from the fields of psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience, then discusses tools to enhance motivation and achievement while maintaining balance and health.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 2 units total)
Instructors: Yisrael, D. (PI)

WELLNESS 212: Psych of Optimal Performance

How the psychological skills that athletes and other performers apply in training, preparation, and competition influence optimal performance in multiple life domains. Surveys concepts of motivation, arousal regulation, self-confidence, team dynamics, mental skills training. Applies psychological techniques to enhance balanced performance, enjoyment, and self-satisfaction in sports and life.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2

WELLNESS 217: Behavior Change: Building A Better You

Change behaviors using evidence-based techniques. Addresses habit cycles, procrastination mitigation, productivity enhancement, motivational factors, and addiction and addictive processes (both substances and non-substance related) in changing behavior from maladaptive to adaptive patterns. Draws from neuroscience (Davidson, Siegel) and psychology (Beck, Miller, Rollnick) and employs motivational interviewing, cognitive reframing, peer coaching, and mindfulness meditation models and intervention strategies.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2
Instructors: Chima, A. (PI)

WELLNESS 230: Meditation

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 well-being. While meditation practices emerge from religious traditions, all practice and instruction will be secular.
Terms: Spr, Sum | Units: 1 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 2 units total)

WELLNESS 250: Introduction to Nutrition

Optimize nutrition for health and performance based on established research. Topics include evidence-based analysis of macronutrients, fad diets, sugar addiction, low-calorie sweeteners, caloric restriction, disease prevention, and general nutrition. Discern between popular trends and scientific understanding in nutrition and nutritional habits.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Repeatable 8 times (up to 8 units total)
Instructors: Robinson, J. (PI)

WELLNESS 293: Applying Wellness Practicum

Translating theoretical knowledge and acquired skills into actionable wellness projects that enhances an aspect of wellness within the Stanford community. Students work in a collaborative, peer-coaching model, under the mentorship of the course instructors, to design, deliver, and evaluate a wellness initiative at Stanford.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2 | Repeatable 4 times (up to 8 units total)
Instructors: Chima, A. (PI)

WELLNESS 301: STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Effectively manage stress and practice strategies that positively impact the brain-body system to enhance clarity, focus, and energy. Presents tools for assessing perceived stress (Shelden Cohen, Perceived Stress Scale), findings in the science of stress management, and cognitive-behavioral theories and interventions demonstrated to reduce stress and enhance wellbeing.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1
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