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LEAD

Leadership and Social Change. Developing leadership and changemaking capacities to support individual and community flourishing.

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Through courses, co-curricular offerings, and partnerships, LEAD serves as the hub space for developing student’s leadership and changemaking capacities. We believe that leadership and social change are both individually and collectively held and need to be supported through developing individual, relational, and communal skills. Therefore, LEAD is rooted in a commitment to deep inner work that honors wellbeing, compassion, and purpose and from that basis, radiates outward to shape the systems that create and support our societies in more just, connected, and sustainable ways. We are leading from the inside out; learning from the outside in for individual and collective flourishing

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Testimonials

LEAD 103/WELLNESS 123: Living on Purpose
“I think this is an essential foundational course for Stanford students regardless of level of study. And even if you think you "have done this stuff before," the focus on inward reflection for outward action may be unique and the safe open intergenerational discussion space will definitely generate new learnings.”

LEAD 103/WELLNESS 123: Living on Purpose
"I learned how to love myself and to grow with the growth mindset. I learned how to project my strengths and talents forwards"

LEAD 104/LIFE 104: Tools for Meaningful Communities
"I learned a lot about community building and approaches to building community as well as some wonderful wellness and meditation techniques!" 

LEAD 121/WELLNESS 192: Peer Support
"Amazing class, need more of these classes to help with mental health crisis on campus"

LEAD 150: Leading for Social Justice
“Two best elements of the class were: the love with which instructors taught, and the brave vulnerability the spaces required”

Partnership

Ralston Leadership Initiatives

Together LEAD and ICIL are engaged in a campus-wide leadership initiative that draws on a common framework to support student leadership development across Stanford communities. 

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