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Managing stress and building
personal resilience is the single most important
on-going challenge we face. This course includes powerful
tools that enhance beneficial awareness of stress.
Participants are also introduced to a wide range of coping
strategies for dealing with stress, learning how to transform
maladaptive life patterns into adaptive habits of thought
and behavior that build personal resilience.
Major Objectives
In this workshop participants will:
- Learn what stress is and how it affects the mind
and body
- Gain awareness of findings on individual and social
consequences of stress
- Be introduced to the Cycles of Health and Disease
Stress Management Model
- Clarify their individual personal stressors and
expand options for healthy adaptation
- Learn techniques for dealing with on-the-job stress,
life crisis events and on-going stressors
- Systematically challenge stressful, unfounded negative
assumptions and establish desirable life goals
- Apply easy, but highly effective techniques to
enhance personal resilience
- Gain valuable website and other resources to enhance
personal stress management / resilience in the longer term
Instructional Method
This is an interactive course which applies a variety of instructional
methods to engage the participants. These include lectures,
self-assessments, group discussion, group exercises, and the
integration of real issues from the participants' work and
home environments.
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