Course objectives
Training aimed at the improvement of skills of dealing with stress in all areas of life and the possibility of getting to know individual predispositions of the participant.
Benefits
- Learning methods of reducing stress and how to use them effectively
- Taking control over your own emotions
- Learning practical exercises that reduce the symptoms of stress in the body
- Learning the methods of taking care of your own psychophysical health
- Identification of stressors in the workplace and acquiring skills how to deal with tension
- Increase in satisfaction from performed work
- Change of mental habits that are responsible for the occurrence of a stress response
- Learning positive thinking
Training scope
- Work-life balance – how to achieve balance in life and at work
- Wheel of life according to Paul Meyer – a self-diagnostic tool
- Diagnosis of the areas of functioning in the context of maintaining balance
- Stress as a serious obstacle in achieving balance and life objectives
- What is stress and what causes it
- Three stages of stress response
- How does stress affect the body and the mind
- Stress symptoms at the level of thoughts, behaviours, emotions, body, intellectual efficiency
- Conditions determining resistance to stress
- Irrational thoughts and worrying
- What is my stress susceptibility – a self-diagnostic tool
- Stress at work
- Stressors in the workplace – a map of stressors
- Three main attitudes in interpersonal communication
- How to avoid conflicts at work
- When does stress increase and when it reduces the effectiveness of performed tasks
- Positive stress (eustress), negative stress (distress) – how to recognise them from a professional aspect
- Effects of stress in the workplace
- Ineffective methods of fighting stress
- Highly effective methods of eliminating stress in different life situations (problem solving, emotions-oriented dealing with stress, by attributing meaning)
- Psychological techniques of dealing with stress
- Stress and our bodies
Audience
- Persons who:
- are exposed to stressful work;
- feel the need to reduce the negative effects of stress in their lives;
- are burdened with excessive amount of duties;
- wish to restore their internal balance and joy of life.