2015-16 Resilience Events
Autumn & Winter Quarters: Residential Workshops and Programs
Ask your Resident Assistant or your Resident Fellow about bringing resilience to your dorm. Or contact us and we will reach out.
January 13, 2016: Fail 2 Succeed
The Resilience Project will host Fail 2 Succeed: Trials and triumphs from faculty. There are many setbacks on the road to success. Hear from professors Martha Cyert, Allyson Hobbs, and Raymond McDermott as they share their personal and professional stories of failure, rejection, and resilience. The panel discussion begins at 7:30 p.m. in Paul Brest Hall followed by a dessert reception at 8:30 p.m. This Resilience Project event is sponsored by the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and the Year of Learning.
March 31, 2016: Stanford, I Screwed Up
Everybody fails at something.
"Stanford, I Screwed Up" is an annual event commemorating and celebrating the 'epic failures' in our lives. Students from across campus will come together and share experiences through storytelling, comedy, poetry, song, video, and other creative means.
By sharing our "epic failures" with each other, we fight the duck syndrome and build a strong community.
What's your epic failure? How do you want to share it?
Be brave! Check back for submission information in January.
The Stanford Resilience Project in the news
- Palo Alto Weekly 8/10/12
- The Stanford Daily 1/14/11
- The Stanford Dish 1/6/11
- Educause Online Review 12/15/10
Grit, resilience, and bouncing back
- Jessica Reed, Stanford I Screwed Up Speaker shares her resilient story (Stanford News, 2015)
- Stanford Law Professor Creates Method for Dealing with Stress (Stanford News, 2014)
- "To The Best of Our Knowledge"
- 6 Failures You Should Experience if You Want to Succeed in Life (Elite Daily, 2015)
- Finding Courage by Accepting Vulnerability (Psychology Today, 2015)
- Failure as the Key Element to Success for Authors (Stanford Report, 2014)
- The Career Mistakes You Should Be Making (The Muse, 2014)
- All I Need to Know, I Learned When I Failed Out Of College (Huffington Post, 2014)
- How Failure in the Classroom is More Instructive than Success (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014)
- 7 Epic Fails Brought to You by the Genius Mind of Thomas Edison (Smithsonian, 2013)
- Bouncing Back May Be Tough, But So Are We (Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2013)
- Selected Works on Resilience (Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2013)
- Eating Rejection for Breakfast (Forbes, 2012)
- Fear, failure, and falling short (blog post, 2012)
- Learning to Bounce Back (NY Times, 2012)
- Back to School (This American Life, 2012)
- Reading, Math, and Grit (NY Times, 2012)
- Teaching to Fail (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012)
- STEM Students Must Be Taught to Fail (US News and World Report, 2012)
- What if the Secret to Success is Failure? (NY Times Magazine, 2011)
