Stress Management - Getting the Balance Right

Overview
A day to consider your own response to stress and how to reduce the negative effects of stress in your life

Course objectives
To give participants a framework for reviewing their own experience of stress and tools to deal with it
By the end of this course you will have learned

• What we mean by stress and understand both positive and negative effects
• How to identify the symptoms of stress in ourselves and others
• How to Identify the elements of personality that help and hinder our approach to stress
• How to identify your current strategies for dealing with stress and to assess the level to which these are successful
• How to introduce techniques for dealing with specific areas of stress. These techniques will include imagery techniques, cognitive techniques and relaxation techniques
• About the three key elements of life that will build your long term resistance to stress

Who should attend
Anyone who wishes to have a better understanding of what stress is and how it affects them
Pre-requisites
None

Course synopsis
This session gives you an overview of what stress is and helps you determine whether you are experiencing any negative effects from stress. It also covers how you deal with your stress and how to prevent yourself from becoming stressed, building a stress-proof lifestyle.