I Thrive @ Stanford recommends health and wellness related academic courses, including classes offered by Vaden staff*.
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Emotional Well Being
Happiness, Compassion and Life Meaning
•WELLNESS 196: Practices of Happiness*
•WELLNESS 18: Strengthening the Heart through Compassion
•WELLNESS 195: Mind, Body, Spirit*
•PEDS 106/206: The Pursuit of Health and Happiness*
•PEDS 199: Directed Reading for internships, academic, and research projects*
•FAMMED 219: Mind-Body Medicine
•GSBGEN 10SC: Lives of Consequence
•ME 104B: Designing the Authentic Life
•MED 130: YES+ Empowerment Course
•PSYC 136A/B (236A/B): Valuescience: Shedding Illusion to Live Better
•PSYC 233: Mindfulness: An Awareness-Based Stress Reduction Program in Medicine
•PSYCH 213: Affective Science
•PWR 91: Finding Your Story
•TAPS 103: Beginning Improvising
Peer Counseling and Diversity
•EDU 193A: Listen Up! Core Peer Counseling Skills Peer Counseling *
•EDUC 193C: Psychological Well-Being On Campus: Perspectives Of The Black Diaspora*
•EDUC 193G: Psychological Well-Being on Campus: A Focus on Gender and Sexual Identities*
•EDUC 193N: Peer Counseling in the Native American Community*
Nutrition, Body Image, & Eating Disorders
•WELLNESS 190: Introduction to Nutrition
•WELLNESS 192: Intuitive Eating
•WELLNESS 194: Health Cooking: Food as Medicine
•HUMBIO 130: Human Nutrition
•HUMBIO 166: Food and Society: Exploring Eating Behaviors in Social, Environmental, and Policy Context
•ANTHRO 269: The Ecology of Cuisine: Food, Nutrition, and the Evolution of the Human Diet
Relationships, Sexuality, and Sexual Health
•EDUC 193S: Peer Counseling on Comprehensive Sexual Health*
•HUMBIO 79Q: Sexuality and Society
General Wellness
•WELLNESS 193 Lifestyle Fitness Challenge
•WELLNESS 198: Stress Less, Sleep Better
•WELLNESS 201: Flourishing
•PEDS 105: Health Promotion and the Campus Culture (by permission of instructor only)*
•HUMBIO 126: Promoting Health over the Life Course
•PSYC 135: Sleep and Dreams
•SOC 120: Interpersonal Relations
Learn and Explore
Bay Area university centers for research and education offer outstanding public programs about human flourishing.
On-line Courses and Seminars: FREE or low-cost
- http://www.awakeningjoy.org Course combining lectures, interaction and performance
- http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/news_events/event/the_science_of_happiness
- http://7doorstohappiness.com : Insights in positive psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness
- http://www.sustainablehappinesscourse.com : How to develop and sustain a life of meaning, vibrant health and personal happiness
- http://www.talbenshahar.com/talbenshahar/onlinecourses / On-line lectures on the science of happiness
- http://www.rickhanson.net/teaching/foundations-program / Foundations of Well-Being
Wellness Newsletter
- Stanford Student Health 101 monthly online wellness magazine: http://studenthealth101.stanford.edu
- Just One Thing weekly newsletter for happiness, health, and a better world: http://www.rickhanson.net/writings/just-one-thing/
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