Personal Development

In this workshop, you will gain an enhanced understanding of the challenges Stanford undergraduates and graduate students are facing in terms of mental health and well-being. You'll also learn strategies to protect your and your students' well-being in the virtual classroom, check in with a student who may be struggling, and refer students to campus resources as necessary. Open to any Stanford graduate student or post-doc.

Speaker:

Colin Campbell, Program Manager, Health Education Well Being at Stanford, Vaden Health Center

"Conversations on the History of 'Hispanics' in the U.S., from Marginality to More Marginality"With Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraAlice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin

Join the Health Improvement Program (HIP) for a free fireside chat with Karith Foster, speaker, humorist, author, and moderator Patty de Vries, associate director of faculty and staff wellness. Preregistration is required.

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In this session, we will explore everyday implicit, or unconscious, biases in the workplace: how to identify bias, how to address bias, and ultimately, how to make our unconscious biases conscious. We will cover the literature on bias and inclusion in education, academic medicine specifically, and the workplace more generally as we work together to building a more inclusive culture in our own spaces.

Practice the art of informational interviews and make connections with other grad students in this preview of the popular d.school course, Designing the Professional.

Kathy Davies, lecturer and managing director, Life Design Lab

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John Armstrong, lecturer and fellow, Life Design Lab

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You may have heard that resilience is about “bouncing back” after an experience of failure or adversity, but did you know that you can “bounce” forward? In this presentation we will discuss definitions of resilience, ways to respond resiliently to life’s challenges and consider what it means to cultivate the resources that are the foundation for resilience. Additionally, we will learn the importance of having a growth mindset AND opportunity mindset when facing stress which together build our failure tolerance, a key ingredient in resilience.

Speakers for 10/27: Ran Abramitzky

Kate Bundorf — The Coronavirus Pandemic and the U.S. Health Care System

Lisa Chamberlain — Kids, COVID and Child Health Policy

Mark Duggan — Social Security, Medicare, and Health Policy

Maria Polyakova — Private Provision of Social Insurance

The webinar on October 27 is open to everyone, including Stanford community members and the general public. The webinar will not be livestreamed. Please register for the Zoom webinar.

Speakers for 11/17: Ran Abramitzky

Steven Chu — What the World Needs to Become Carbon Neutral

Gretchen Daily — How to Stop Environmental Destruction

Fei-Fei Li — The Future of Human Centered AI

Walter Scheidel — Will the Pandemic Remake Society?

The webinar on November 17 is open to everyone, including Stanford community members and the general public. The webinar will not be livestreamed. Please register for the Zoom webinar.

Speakers for 11/10: Ran Abramitzky

Emilee Chapman — Democracy and Voting

Francis Fukuyama — Overcoming Polarization

Anna Grzymala-Busse — Populism Around the World

Michael McFaul — U.S. Foreign Policy in Dealing with the Great Power Competition, China and Russia

The webinar on November 10 is open to everyone, including Stanford community members and the general public. The webinar will not be livestreamed. Please register for the Zoom webinar.