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This experiential course allows students to grow as leaders through immersion in leadership positions in the Stanford Band. Study and implement frameworks and tools that enhance leadership and team performance. Topics covered include traditional leadership and governance concepts, as well as approaches specifically effective in music ensembles.

Enhance your skills in leading and creating positive social change within the Stanford community and beyond. Deepen self-knowledge and self-awareness while building capabilities for leading in teams and communities. Rooted in the Social Change Model, this experiential and project-based course explores topics including values in action, effective collaboration, team and community-building, communicating across differences, and inspiring common purpose within groups. Build your leadership toolkit through hands-on practice and apply your learnings in the specific communities to which you belong. This class is for students with both formal and informal leadership roles on campus.

Explore the art and science of purpose-finding as it relates to living a more flourishing life at Stanford and beyond. 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, storytelling, design, and positive psychology, create and utilize tools that promote wellbeing. Highly interactive course employs creative expression, group and individual activities, discussions, lectures, and mini-field trips to reflect on fundamental human questions in pragmatic ways.

Social support is an integral part of the human experience and a core pillar of human well-being. Explore ways you can be an effective source of support for your peers, using models, skills, and practices rooted in positive psychology, leadership studies and peer coaching. Conceived as a two part process, going inward and engaging outward, you will examine your well-being so you can offer support to others. Through coaching your peers you will help them discover their values, develop meaningful goals, and take steps towards building the life they want. Develop the skills, knowledge, and mindsets needed to be present with your peers when they struggle, feel stuck, and need your support. Cultivate the confidence and abilities needed to be a community leader, well-being champion, and role model for balanced, whole-hearted living at Stanford and beyond. Highly interactive course employs creative expression, group, pair, and individual work, discussions, lectures, and self-guided reflections to support your own well-being and build your capacity to help others enhance theirs.

Translate theoretical knowledge and acquired skills into actionable projects or initiatives that make positive impact within and/or beyond the Stanford community. Students work in collaborative groups or individually under the mentorship of the course instructor(s) to design, deliver, and evaluate an initiative or project.