Visiting Information

Memorial Church Open Visiting Hours:
Monday - Thursday, 9 AM - 5 PM
Friday, 9 AM - 1 PM*
*Impacted schedule on Fridays due to private reservation. If there are no reservations, then the church will be open for visiting until 5 PM. Tours on Fridays at 11 AM.

Memorial Church is closed for University holidays, University closures, services, and private events. 

Windhover Contemplative Center will officially reopen during a ceremony at noon Wednesday, March 19.

About Memorial Church and Companion Spaces
Stanford
Office for Religious & Spiritual Life

Meeting the Moment Course

LEAD 124: Leadership Development for Meeting the Moment: Practices and Pedagogy

Course information; Text is repeated on webpage.

In the face of political, social, economic, environmental, and public health upheavals, many of us are grappling with uncertainty, isolation, and stress affecting academic and day-to-day life. In this course students will be supported in engaging in their own exploration and developing their capacities to be Student Facilitators for the winter and spring Meeting the Moment course, LIFE/ WELLNESS 105. We will draw on creative and embodied practices derived from psychology, spirituality, and storytelling to build skills for navigating isolation, uncertainty, stress, and help improve self-regulation, holistic learning, resilience, and creative confidence. In this course students will explore and learn to synthesize these capacities, and develop pedagogical skills for sharing knowledge, experience, and community building in the classroom. Enrollment by consent of the instructor.

  • Fall 2024
  • 1 Unit
  • Tuesdays 1:30 - 3:20 PM
  • Instructors: Colleen Hallagan Preuninger, Diane Friedlaender

LIFE 105: Meeting the Moment: Inner Resources for Hard Times (WELLNESS 105)

 

Course information; Text repeated on webpage.

In the face of social, economic, environmental, and public health upheavals, many of us are experiencing an unprecedented degree of uncertainty, isolation, and stress affecting academic and day-to-day life. Challenging times ask us, in a voice louder than usual, to identify sources of strength and develop practices that sustain and even liberate. In this experiential, project-oriented class: Explore practices to find true ground and enact positive change for self and community; Cultivate natural capacities of presence, courage, and compassion; Develop resources to share with one another and the entire Stanford community.

  • Winter & Spring 2025
  • 1-2 Units WAY-CE
  • Tuesdays 1:30 - 3:20 PM
  • Instructors: Marissa Floro, Colleen Hallagan Preuninger, Diane Friedlaender (Winter 2025), Gigi Otalvaro (Spring 2025)