1. Understanding
Your Stress
Stress mindfulness and its power to
change your perspective

2. My Focus Area
Getting college students to be more mindful of their
stress level while they are doing homework in the
library.

3. Mindfulness can help to
better manage stress

4. Stress can sometimes be a good thing. In short
periods of time it can boost performance.

5. Healthy stress can help us reach the optimal
working state, known as flow

6. Too much stress, however, is
very unhealthy and can actually
cause us to be less productive

7. Image courtesy of:
Sue Shellenbager,
Wall Street Journal

8. The question is, how do we
get students to be aware of
stress levels?

9. Insights:
Students may need more triggers to
remember to be mindful of stress levels
Image courtesy of BJ Fogg

10. Insights:
Students are not often taught stress
mindfulness strategies - perhaps the
ability is low for many
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11. Insights:
Students have a desire to reduce stress, it will
be important to leverage this motivation and to
show that mindfulness is an effective first step
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12. Some initial ideas…

14. Long term goal
Increase this
Goal for behavior
students
Stop this
behavior

15. Thank You!
Jordan Arellano
jordan88@stanford.edu

16. Next Steps…
Testing to determine how to reach optimal
stress level such that a state of flow can be
achieved easily