Stress Management

Stress Management

We are living in changing times, people are feeling overwhelmed with fear and uncertainty. Whilst a certain amount of stress is beneficial, since it stimulates an adaptive response that makes people stronger, too much stress can become overwhelming and have a toxic effect on the mind and body.

This one-day Stress Management training course teaches people how to recognise the symptoms of stress in themselves and others. We will show delegates techniques and offer practical solutions for effectively managing their stress.

What is Stress Management Training?

The Stress Management Training Course Overview highlights that stress is an inevitable part of life and cannot be completely avoided. Rather than trying to eliminate stress, the course aims to help people manage it effectively by striking a balance between its intensity, duration, and frequency.

This balance is necessary to stay in the optimum zone, where stress produces only beneficial effects on the mind and body.

The course recognises that stress can trigger adaptive responses, such as a nice tan from sunlight stress or stronger muscles from exercise stress. However, an overdose of stress or poorly managed stress can be dangerous.

Therefore, the course emphasises the importance of gaining the benefits of stress while avoiding its dangers.

The second part of the course focuses on improving people's responses to stressful situations. Many people tend to overreact to stress, leading to inappropriate and harmful responses.

The course provides tools and techniques to help people process stressful events in a healthy and adaptive way, so that their reactions are proportionate to the circumstances and beneficial to their mental and physical well-being.

Overall, this stress management training course promotes a positive and proactive approach to stress, empowering people to manage it in a healthy and adaptive way.

Stress Management Training Course Overview

The course starts with the statement that stress is inherent in living. It is impossible to avoid all stress and it’s wrong to try.

We have evolved to respond to stressors in an adaptive way. Stress is a trigger to adaptive responses. Sunlight stress gives us a nice tan. Exercise stress makes us stronger. But an overdose of stress, or poorly managed stress is dangerous.

Our aim is to gain the benefits of stress, whilst avoiding all its dangers.

We introduce the idea that all stressors have three components: intensity, duration, and frequency.

Intensity is a measure of the concentration of the stress. Duration is a measure of the time imposed. Frequency is the measure of how often it is imposed.

We must balance the intensity, duration and frequency of stressors, so that we stay in the optimum zone. The optimum zone is where we are stressed, but it produces only beneficial effects on the mind and body.

The second part of the course is about individual responses to stressful situations. Many people have poor mental and physical responses to stress situations - they overreact, and their responses are inappropriate to the circumstances and are therefore, harmful.

We show delegates to improve how they mentally and physically process stressful events, so that their responses are proportionate to the circumstances and their reactions are appropriate, adaptive and beneficial.

Learning Outcomes:

• What stress is and how it affects you and others

• How stress can have both beneficial and harmful effects

• How to manage negative stress emotions of anxiety and worry

• How to replace negative emotional responses with positive reactions

• How to develop healthy physical responses to stressful situations

• How to handle difficult and stressful work conditions

• Train yourself to take stress in your stride