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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.

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. Expand your religious literacy by visiting spiritual gatherings across campus. It is not expected that you will be an adherent 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.

Enrich your life with more humor and happiness, guided by BJ Fogg, Director of Stanford's Behavior Design Lab. This course covers how human behavior really works, the Tiny Habits method, the myths of motivation, and a systematic way to design your life for good. Hands-on projects and empirical research come together to illuminate the principles of Behavior Design. Apply material to your own behavior change journey and learn how to coach others.

This interdisciplinary course equips students with essential life skills for excelling in school, work, and the broader demands of 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 practice-based course fosters inner growth through a specific form of evidence-based meditation called Transcendental Meditation, shown to enhance awareness, creativity, resilience, and balance. The course also focuses on developing key communication, relationship-building, and collaboration skills. It delves into 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. It includes insights from recent research on what differentiates successful versus unsuccessful founders. This integrative approach to leadership development can reduce stress and lead to emotional balance, mental clarity, empowering students to be more effective in all areas of their lives.

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.

There is no one way to change, and no specific change you are "supposed to" make. This is, at its core, a course about learning who you are and how you are wired so you can make lasting, meaningful changes that work with your individual make-up. This journey includes deeper dives into self-compassion, behavior change science, contemplative practice, neuroscience, and reflective inquiry. You also will learn how to be a peer coach and utilize motivational interviewing techniques, supporting your classmates through the process of change. You will design an initial behavior change plan which you will iterate throughout the quarter as you engage research, peer coaching, and reflective practice. The goal is not to change every desired behavior in ten weeks, but rather to know yourself and the science well enough that you are equipped to change, as you do, over a lifetime.

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.

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.