The Stanford Stoked! laboratory has begun new research in education with a goal toward producing a large scale course for Stanford undergraduates on the core material from PSYC 60N. We are hoping to capture the essence of the seminar and deliver it for a larger audience. We intend to do so by making a new special concept for undergraduate education.

This project is under development by the lab through the 2025-2026 academic year with hopes that the course will be offered in the next academic year. It’s gonna be big, blissful, and bodacious! We are looking to be innovative and use multimedia, interdisciplinary faculty for teaching, an experiential learning for students. We are thinking out of the box for sure.

The lab uses the positive emotion modules from PSYC 60N for dissemination in many contexts of education and well-being training. The Stoked Lab explores the mixture of experiential challenges with readings and multimedia education for learning about positive psychology. 

From Friedrich Nietzsche and Walt Whitman to Martin Seligman and Maya Angelou, we draw from the canon of well-being and psychological science to make concepts relevant across multiple life settings. The Stoked Lab loves to juxtapose serious life philosophy with humor and pop-culture in efforts to maximize the joy of learning about well-being. The Stoked Lab utilizes challenges and prompts/questions to maximize the potential for positive changes, and we will be comparing baseline and follow-up evaluations from Stoked Lab participants with Stanford students who did not take our course.  Apply the Stoked! Philosophy in vivo and live a life of pure stokage.

Coaches Daryn and Shashank have been running THE STOKE for 10 years!!! So what now…. What now? Well, with our new birthday we want to celebrate!

Given the amazing response we've had from students, and after watching the outcomes of Stoked! graduates in their application of the course material, we want to think about how to spread the stoke. Under this special department initiative, we have begun work on expanding this larger experience for the Stanford undergraduate community.

We are looking for interested undergraduate students to help us innovate create and expand a next level for undergraduate education. Stoked Lab is a perfect place for undergraduates to help explore new methods and education.

Graduate students can receive credit for coursework in helping to create a larger experience of PSYC 60N.  Please email Daryn Reicherter (dreicherter@stanford.edu) to see if you are a fit.

PSYC 290 is a flexible opportunity to work on the development of a larger education experience a positive psychology for Stanford University. Learn More