Stress Reduction Techniques (Making Stress Work For, Not Against, You)

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Define, identify, and analyze the stressors in their life
• Understand the negative mental, emotional, physical, and behavioral consequences of stress, as well as its positive consequences, when properly managed
• Practice stress reduction techniques
• Build a personal plan for stress reduction

Course Outline:

Defining Stress

• The first key to managing stress is understanding what it is; where it comes from; its effects upon our minds and bodies

Stress Inventories/Assessments

• To identify the major causes of stress and evaluate the causes in everyone’s life

Stress Reduction Techniques

• Includes physical, emotional, and cognitive responses

The Big Four:

• Your Job
• Managing Change
• Conflict and Personality Differences
• The “Super” Person Syndrome–Trying to Do and Have it All