STRESS MANAGEMENT

The workshop is designed to promote a cognitive approach to health and stress management. Participants learn skills and tools for dealing with the demands and pressures of change and transitions in their personal and professional lives. Exercises, skills, insights and strategies for monitoring personal progress and growth include some or all of the following topics.

PROGRAM TOPICS:

• Understanding Stress.
• People Differences: How is stress affecting you?
• Recognizing the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
• Focus, goal-setting, and self-management.
• Relationship between stress and health.
• Managing stress with natural healing techniques.
• Relaxation skills, training and practice.
• Lifestyle and diet

Through a series of assessments, behavioral patterns are identified and coping skills are taught for assisting people in effectively dealing with the demands and pressures of change and transition. Relaxation training and other natural healing modalities are demonstrated, practiced, and supported through a "self-management/monitoring-for-success" approach.

Stress related disorders are becoming the norm. Surviving workplace change in a deepening climate of uncertainty is affecting all of us. Skills and insights are needed to maintain a stable inner world when it often appears that the world outside us is out of control. Staying vital while surviving can lead to increased energy and thriving on the challenges facing each of us in a busy world. This program teaches how.

Depending on the depth of content covered, this workshop can be delivered in a two-hour introductory format; a series of two-hour sessions covering a 30- to 40-hour series over a number of months; or a one-, or two-day format.

PARTICIPANTS:

People from all levels of the organization wanting to maximize their work place effectiveness through stress management strategies.

WHERE DO YOU PROVIDE TRAINING?

Most programs are given in the Greater Toronto and surrounding areas. Arrangements can be made for other locations.

Links to several articles on stress management can be found on our resources page.