Peer Support: Creating Spaces for Healing and Growth

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.