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Session One: Course Overview
You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
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Course Overview
Session Two: Defining Stress and How It Affects Us
To begin, participants will explore what stress is and the effects it can have. They will also work on identifying their stressors.
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Where Are You Now?
Defining and Identifying Stress
Assignments
Ways to Look at Your Stress
Session Three: What is Stress About?
This session will explore some of the things that stress is about. Participants will also learn about the positive effects of stress and what eustress is.
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What is Stress About?
Session Four: Building a Solid Foundation
Next, participants will learn about the four pillars of stress management. Special focus will be given to relaxation techniques.
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Taking Care of Your Body and Your Mind
Assignments
Case Study
Assignments
Draft Lesson
Session Five: Mental Strategies
This session will give participants two mental strategies to manage stress. They will also learn about the Triple A approach: alter, avoid, and accept.
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Changing Ourselves
The Triple A Approach
Session Six: Stress at Work
During this session, participants will complete a stress inventory to help them identify areas of stress at work. Participants will also identify some solutions for work-related stress.
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Stress at Work
Stress Inventory
Assignments
Stress Logging
Session Seven: Time Management Tips
A little bit of planning can go a long way towards reducing stress. Participants will work in small groups to brainstorm ways of managing time.
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Time Management Tips
Assignments
Session Eight: Stress at Home
Next, participants will get some tips on running their household in a way that reduces stress, including budgeting, planning meals, general organization, and chores.
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Budgeting Basics
The Everyday Stuff
Organization Tips
Assignments
Session Nine: Drainers and Fillers
To wrap things up, participants will identify the things that drain and energize them.
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Assignments 1
Personal Action Plan
Stress Management
About Lesson

Stress is our mental, physical, and behavioral response to something that could threaten our safety or well-being. Too much stress can result in serious physical, psychological, interpersonal, or performance problems. Too little stress, however, can also lead us to be unconcerned with getting on with things, including getting out of bed in the morning.

What Does It Mean?

The pre-assignment is a way for you to review where your life is right now and bring the topic of stress to a prominent place where it can be discussed.

We know from research dating back to the 1960’s (Holmes & Rahe, 1967, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Vol. 11) that there is a health toll that chronic stress brings with it. Their research demonstrated that the more stressful events you encountered in a 24 month period, the more likely you were to become ill.

While we have tempered that research with the knowledge that positive stress can be very good, and we know that not all people respond to stress in the same way, we do know that there is a direct correlation between perceptions of stress and the impact on our health. Generally, the more significant life events you encounter, the more potential there is for you to become ill.

 

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