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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
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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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Personal Action Plan
Stress Management
About Lesson

When we present a stress management course, we often look for the greatest areas of our life that produce stress.

  • According to Peter Hanson, MD, a best-selling author of several books about stress, work and the workplace causes most of our stress.
  • According to the Holmes-Rahe stress scale, which has been popularly used in stress management workshops since the late 1960’s, the greatest single stressors come from our personal lives.

In reality, it depends on what’s happening in different areas of our life, and how we respond to things that add to our stress levels, no matter where they are coming from.

We know intuitively that the economy, threats of layoff, doing more with fewer resources will add stress to our work. However, even in an ideal workplace there can be people we don’t get along with, orders that do not arrive on time, and phones that don’t get answered. On the home front, finding a new place to live, weddings, family gatherings, finances, and inflation can add stress to our lives.

The word “stressor” is something we hear frequently. A stressor is something that puts real or perceived demands on your physical, emotional, or spiritual self. Stressors can be positive or negative.

 

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