About

SKY @ Stanford is dedicated to uplifting the lives of student, staff, and faculty and helping everyone on campus achieve their fullest potential.

In person and virtual SKY Happiness retreats have been conducted for more than 14 years with hundreds of Stanford students, staff, faculty, and alumni. We also do short 30 min – 1 hour department and dorm workshops in case you’d like to organize something for your staff or students! Past offerings include meditation programs at Stanford Med School, Stanford Alumni Association, and frosh residences (we added virtual offerings since the pandemic started – and even got a shoutout in Forbes!)

“At Stanford, we have found that SKY Campus Happiness has played an important role in improving overall student well-being.”

   – Previous Director, Wellness & Health Promotion Services, Stanford University

Let us know how we can support you! For more details, reach out at asamar@cs.stanford.edu.

SKY Happiness Retreats are organized around the country by students and staff and led by facilitators from SKY Campus Happiness, a non-profit which organizes comprehensive well-being and resilience programs and trains students and staff to lead programs on their campuses. Many in our Stanford family are facilitators and volunteers with SKY Campus Happiness!

First retreat of Winter Quarter 2025!

Our volunteers: 

Peter Nonso Nwokoye, Student, Stanford School of Medicine

Isha Thapa, Student, Stanford Management Science and Engineering

Shailee Samar, Student, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Krishnan Srinivasan, Student, Stanford Computer Science

Julia Tang, Lecturer in Stanford Living Education

Graham Erwin, previously postdoctoral research fellow Stanford Department of Genetics, now Professor of Medicine (Baylor University)

Anshul Samar ‘16 ‘18, prev. Stanford Math & CS, Stanford Young Alumni Bay Area Board Member

Rita P, Stanford Parent and Volunteer

Varun Nara Jayashankar, SKY Campus Happiness Instructor

Dr. Aashika Suseendran, SKY Campus Happiness Instructor

Saradia Choudhary, SKY Campus Happiness Instructor

SKY Campus volunteer instructors (Muku – Penn State, Sanjana – OSU, Maya – Harvard)!

Special thanks to Archie Miller for web hosting help!