{"id":1355,"date":"2025-08-08T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartlycenter.com\/?page_id=1355"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:32:35","slug":"the-living-101-being-happy-and-whole-curriculum-makes-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heartlycenter.com\/index.php\/the-living-101-being-happy-and-whole-curriculum-makes-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Living 101: Being Happy and Whole\u00a9” Curriculum Makes a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transformative Self-Mastery Skills Training for College and Life Success<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emerging adulthood is a pivotal\u2014and often overwhelming\u2014life stage. Many college students struggle with stress, anxiety, and depression that undermine academic success, personal well-being, and future readiness. Dr. Valerie Ren\u00e9 Sheppard\u2019s groundbreaking, IRB-approved study conducted in a 4-year pilot program at the University of California, Irvine, introduced Living 101: Being Happy and Whole\u00a9<\/em> and Living 102: Happy and Whole Practicum\u00a9<\/em>\u2014innovative, co-curricular courses blending non-cognitive social-emotional learning, practical spirituality, and self-mastery techniques.<\/p>\n

Over ten weeks, students engaged in experiential learning, deep discussions, and real-life application projects designed to enhance mindfulness, emotional regulation, and resilience. Using validated instruments, the study found statistically significant gains in mindfulness (+6 points) and self-efficacy (+22 points) among 167 participants. Students reported lasting improvements in confidence, emotional regulation, and life direction. Though there are some limitations in full applicability of the data (detailed with suggestions for interventions in Chapter 5), the research offers compelling evidence for integrating holistic, SEL-based self-mastery training into post-secondary education policy and curricula.<\/p>\n

This pioneering approach demonstrates how higher education can graduate more capable, centered, and compassionate leaders, ready to meet life\u2019s challenges with confidence and clarity, transforming not only their college experience but their lifelong capacity for success and happiness.<\/p>\n

Below is Dr. Sheppard\u2019s full, approved and published<\/a> doctoral dissertation.<\/p>\n

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EFFECTIVENESS OF TRANSFORMATIVE SELF-MASTERY SKILLS TRAINING IN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transformative Self-Mastery Skills Training for College and Life Success Emerging adulthood is a pivotal\u2014and often overwhelming\u2014life stage. Many college students struggle with stress, anxiety, and depression that undermine academic success, personal well-being, and future readiness. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1355","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartlycenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartlycenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartlycenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartlycenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartlycenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/heartlycenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/heartlycenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1355\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartlycenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}