This course will help Peer Mentors develop leadership insights and skills that will help them in their current roles as well as prepare them for future ones. Class time will involve facilitated discussion of Peer Mentors? real-time leadership experiences, challenges, and best practices. Out of class responsibilities will include several readings and brief written reflections.

This course was created by Home Base and is designed to reduce the impact of stress through a variety of mind-body techniques as well as skill-building exercises scientifically shown to improve medical symptoms, mood, and well-being. This course includes stress management techniques that have proven effective in promoting health and building resilience among military members and veterans throughout the country. Active, Reserve, National Guard or prior military service is a prerequisite for this course.

Build individual strengths to empower stress management and increase resilience. Research, mindfulness and focused writing are applied to increase awareness of emotional responses to life's challenges and facilitate social connections to increase leadership capacity.

Build individual strengths to empower stress management and increase resilience. Research, mindfulness and focused writing are applied to increase awareness of emotional responses to life's challenges and facilitate social connections to increase leadership capacity.

Build individual strengths to empower stress management and increase resilience. Research, mindfulness and focused writing are applied to increase awareness of emotional responses to life's challenges and facilitate social connections to increase leadership capacity.

Build individual strengths to empower stress management and increase resilience. Research, mindfulness and focused writing are applied to increase awareness of emotional responses to life's challenges and facilitate social connections to increase leadership capacity.

Build individual strengths to empower stress management and increase resilience. Research, mindfulness and focused writing are applied to increase awareness of emotional responses to life's challenges and facilitate social connections to increase leadership capacity.

This course builds upon the Freshman STEM Ambassadors Program Experience. The sophomore experience is approximately 50% research experience & 50% STEM AP programming.