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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.

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.

How can we live together and honor both difference and belonging? How do we create community amidst divisiveness and the existential threats of climate change, oppression of marginalized peoples, and our disconnection from ourselves and each other? We are inherently relational and have the potential to heal, flourish, and lead. Leadership and changemaking must be rooted in a commitment to deep inner work that cultivates wellbeing, insight, and wisdom. Inner work radiates outward to shape the systems that create and sustain our societies. In this class, grounded in your experiences at Stanford, you will cultivate skills and tools to enhance your intrapersonal, interpersonal and extrapersonal capacities to enact change for yourself and others. Working in teams, you will learn about and practice building community through the application of interdisciplinary frameworks that provide multiple perspectives on the transformation of the self, our relations with each other, our communities, and societal systems.

Develop your facilitation and leadership skills to maximize team performance and effectiveness. Learn skills for building high functioning teams and navigating challenging group dynamics.Through experiential learning activities, including utilizing Stanford's low ropes team development course, you will test and refine your skills through continuous feedback practices and reflection.

In this experiential class, students will engage in meaningful, spiritual dialogue and religious encounter with one another. This class introduces students to models of spiritual wellness from different religious traditions, fosters dialogue across differences and helps students explore ways to nurture meaning and purpose in their daily lives. Students will gain religious literacy, skills, and knowledge to enable them to wrestle with life's ultimate religious and spiritual questions through readings, facilitated discussions, and breakout sessions. Questions such as: When does spiritual wellness and religious practice converge or diverge? How do I dialogue with people who belong to religious (and non-religious) traditions different from my own? What is pluralism and how do we protect it from prejudice?nnIt is not expected that participants will be adherants of or have expertise in religious practices and traditions or background in religious scholarship. Dr. Amina Darwish will be joined by Rabbi Hahn Tapper and Dean Steinwert as well as other faith leaders.

Explore topics about adventure activity risk assessment, leadership style and values, industry standards, and wilderness equity and inlcusion through class activites, discussions, and reflections. Develop essential skills for individual and group sustainability in a backcountry setting including shelter in outdoor environments, equipment selection and use, travel techniques, water and nutrition needs, planning and preparation, and risk management. Course includes the participation in a weekend backcountry experience.

Outdoor education and leadership theory integration through intensive field-based experiences. During these field-based experiences, students will engage with critical self-assessment process to better understand their own levels of competence leading others. Prerequisite: OUTDOOR 103

This course uses a social justice framework to explore issues of identity, community, power and privilege with respect to diverse populations. We will explore historical and contemporary oppressions based on race, sex, gender identity, class, and other dimensions of identity, and use self-reflection to examine students' own lived experiences. This course will be taught in a dialogic format and will explore the power of dialogue in advancing diversity and social justice. Students will learn key concepts and skills for utilizing dialogic skills in their leadership practice, in the classroom, and in their peer interactions.

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.