Beating Stress!

15 Skills for Building Personal Resilience & Managing Stress in the Workplace

“The best thing about this course was the information about positivism and overcoming negative thought patterns. Excellent course. I feel better already!”

John, Senior Manager, ATO.

Personal Resilience: The Key to Coping in Today’s Busy & Demanding Workplace

Why do some people maintain calm, clarity and effectiveness under pressure while others struggle and falter? Studies reveal that people who cope best with stress are resilient. They have a broad range of resilience resources – cognitive, physical and nutritional practices that build and sustain resilience and facilitate quick recovery from adverse situations that generate stress. Resilient people are more likely to:

• Demonstrate a greater sense of personal control
• Have increased capacity to perform well
• Be more effective and productive
• Demonstrate a greater sense of wellbeing
• Demonstrate comparatively good health
• Maintain strong and meaningful relationships

Beating Stress! is a one-day program that will provide you and your team with a range of targeted, evidence-based skills that build personal resilience and will help you to manage stress. During the program you will also:

• Identify issues that generate stress and stand in the way of good health, effective performance and wellbeing.
• Identify your own levels of personal resilience and areas in which you would like to improve your resilience
• Draw up an action development plan based on practices that will best work for you.

Beating Stress! is divided into three modules – cognitive, physical and nutritional. Each module is experiential, interactive and fun, with plenty of time provided for practicing skills and strategies you can do at your desk, while you are out and about, and at home.

A Cognitive Approach

• Stress and the scope of its positive and negative influences
• Allies: making visible the many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and experiences we use to reduce the influence of those things that challenge our daily quality of life.
• Developing the voice of reason: the role of positivism
• Know where you are going: the benefits
• Being at the effect of circumstances vs creating the effect
• The role of brain chemicals and neural pathways in building resilience

A Physical Approach

• Benefits of a calm nervous system
• Breath control and over-breathing
• Muscles and their relationship to wellbeing
• Meditation for calm and cognitive awareness
• Benefits of the mini meditation
• Techniques for deep relaxation, rapid relaxation and rapid recovery
• Improving health and cognitive capacity by improving fitness

A Nutritional Approach

• Foods that hinder
• Energy boosters: super foods for sustained energy and performance
• Tips for managing weight
• Striking the balance: a personal food plan
• When the going gets tough: the role of nutrients
• Water: the elixir of life?
• A good nights sleep
• Just a little bit of sunshine

Beating Stress! is a one-day program that provides participants with 15 skills and practices that promote clarity, focus, calm and creativity – essential ingredients for health, performance and welling at home and in the workplace.