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WELLNESS 99: Kinesthetic Delight: Movement and Meditation (LIFE 99, TAPS 99)

The words meditation and mindfulness often conjure images of people sitting quietly in peaceful contemplation. However, as contemplatives and scholars from various fields have argued, though the brain resides in the cranium, the mind functions throughout the body. Students in this class will playfully explore embodied and dynamic forms of meditation and mindfulness through movement in an effort to integrate the mind and body. Examples of modalities include Lisa Nelson's Tuning Scores, Barbara Dilley's Contemplative Dance Practices, and other movement practices including qigong, laughter yoga, and psychogeography. Students will work in teams to develop their own movement-meditation scores inspired by these practices.
Terms: Win | Units: 1-2 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE | Repeatable 2 times (up to 4 units total)
Instructors: Otalvaro, G. (PI)

WELLNESS 105: Meeting the Moment: Inner Resources for Hard Times (LIFE 105)

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.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-2 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE | Repeatable 3 times (up to 3 units total)

WELLNESS 106A: Spiritual Wellbeing and Religious Encounter: Reflecting On Our Personal Spiritual Journeys (LEAD 106A)

Engage in meaningful spiritual dialogue and religious encounter with one another, fostering a conversation across differences. Explore ways to nurture meaning and purpose in daily life through experiential learning activities. You will have the opportunity to focus inwards on your own spirituality and write your spiritual autobiography. It is not expected that you will be an adherant of or have expertise in religious practices and traditions or background in religious scholarship. You will gain skills and knowledge enabling you to wrestle with life's ultimate religious and spiritual questions through readings, facilitated discussions, and breakout sessions. All sessions will be held over dinner as communal meals are ways of community building between the students. Dinner is provided.
Terms: Win | Units: 1 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 3 units total)

WELLNESS 118: Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Skills

Learn to cultivate and sustain emotional, physical, and sexual intimacy in relationships. Course takes a sex-positive approach. In addition to scholarly readings on science-based perspectives, the course includes individual, paired, and group exercises in and out of class. Didactic components address the art and science of intimacy through a sociological lens, addressing embodiment, the nuances of consent, needs and boundaries, empathy, safer sex and safer heart conversations, flirting, attunement, escalation and de-escalation, fantasies, pornography, pleasure, selecting partners, repairing relationships, and breaking up.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 1-2
Instructors: Fogarty, A. (PI)

WELLNESS 120: Violence Intervention and Prevention: Cultivating Sexual Citizenship in Fraternities & Sororities (LEAD 120)

This course will introduce initiated fraternity and sorority members to the Sexual Citizenship Framework as well as fundamental skills and practices to support creating positive change. Students will be provided opportunities, guidance, and resources to design and implement their own projects to advance a culture of sexual citizenship in their chapters and broader fraternity and sorority communities. This course is limited to initiated fraternity and sorority members only. A permission code is required to register.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 2

WELLNESS 123: Living on Purpose (LEAD 103)

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.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-2

WELLNESS 130: 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 stress management and well-being. While meditation practices emerge from religious traditions, all practice and instruction will be secular.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 2 units total)

WELLNESS 162: Digital Wellbeing: Healthy Relationships with Technology

We live in a brave new world where technology is integrated into almost every aspect of daily living, which has benefits and drawbacks. A creative approach to designing a mindful, healthy integration of technology with lifestyle can influence flourishing and well-being, as well as provide an avenue for creative self-expression, reflection, community sharing and collaboration. Explore how technology provides opportunities to optimize health, performance, relationships, and purpose. Review current research exploring how to effectively integrate social media, digital media, augmented and virtual reality, messaging, privacy, and personal/professional identity and branding in a way that supports overall life design and values. Design, experiment with, and implement a personalized plan for optimizing your day-to-day technology use with an intention for increasing connection, joy, and flourishing.
Terms: Win, Sum | Units: 1 | Repeatable 4 times (up to 4 units total)
Instructors: Krause, C. (PI)

WELLNESS 171: Laugh to Relax

Learn about and practice laughter yoga, a unique and playful modality that integrates laughter exercises with yogic breathing (this practice is distinct from traditional movement-based yoga). Explore the growing field of research on laughter yoga and its positive effects on wellbeing and other health outcomes. Examine the various dimensions of laughter yoga as a form of fitness, mindfulness, and play. Use a variety of meditation exercises to leverage the power of performative, healing laughter and to cultivate embodied awareness, creativity, resilience, and joy.
Terms: Win | Units: 1 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 2 units total)
Instructors: Otalvaro, G. (PI)

WELLNESS 191: Peer Education on Comprehensive Sexual Health

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.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-2
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