Co-Creative Consulting

Which of the following statements about stress do you believe?

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1. Stress is harmful to my health and well-being

2. Stress is helpful to my health and well-being

 

If you agree with statement No. 1, you’re like most people. Stress is something we’ve come to see as a negative influence. Reporting on a study by Harvard and Stanford researchers, the Washington Post ran the headline, “Your Job Is Literally ‘Killing’ You.” Researchers found that 10 different workplace stressors–including low “job control,” high “job demand,” unemployment, and lack of high-quality work relationships–contribute to more than 120,000 deaths each year and $190 billion in health care costs.

 

While that news may make you want to stay home in your pajamas all day or escape to a beach in Hawaii and never return, the truth is that these studies, while useful, don’t tell the whole story about work-related stress. In fact, with a little effort, you can use the experience of stress, which many of us have in ample supply, in order to build up your resilience to it and even grow in other ways.

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Growing Your Resilience to Stress is a 1-day interactive resilience training workshop that brings participants in closer recognition of their many stressors. Work stress is often cumulative and team members grow used to the level of stress in their work environment. However, constant tolerance of pressure and tension degrades morale, lowers productivity, and reduces profitability and sustainability. This dynamic resilience training workshop creates greater awareness of the draining factors and offers skills and insights for building mental, emotional, physical, social, and energetic areas of life.

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How you will benefit from this course:​

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• Greater ability to recognize work stressors

• Enhanced capacity to handle difficult situations

• Increased integrity and professionalism

• Improved ability to work with diverse personalities

• Better understanding of prioritizing important projects

• Elevation of emotional intelligence

• Thriving in the face of change

• Improved understanding of co-worker’s challenges

• Development of S.M.A.R.T. goals to further the material

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Objectives of this workshop:

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• How the human body naturally enters a state of hyperarousal when it experiences actual or perceived stress and adversity.

• The effects of hyperarousal on individual perception, problem solving, behaviors, and their associated psychosocial outcomes.

• Simple skills to enhance your capacity to stay centered and calm in the midst of any stressful and traumatic situations.

• Simple skills to use stress and adversities as catalysts to transform the way you see and respond to the world and increase your level of functioning.

• The personal and social benefits of Transformational Resilience.

• “Presencing skills” to calm and center yourself in the midst of stress and trauma including body-based (somatic), awareness-based (mindfulness), and thought-based (cognitive) techniques.

• “Purposing skills” to find meaning, direction, and hope in the midst of stress and trauma including innovation-based option expansion, values-based decision-making, and strength-based learning and growth techniques.

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Contact us today to find out how you can bring the Growing Your Resilience to Stress Workshop to your community, or organization. We have included the standard workshop outline below. All training can be tailored to meet your specific needs. 

 

THIS 1-DAY WORKSHOP IS FOR:

 

This workshop is helpful for anyone interested in learning how to identify and cultivate their capacity to care for themselves, thrive, and flourish in the midst of all types of stress and adversity. 

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WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN IN THIS 1-DAY WORKSHOP:

 

Day 1 - 8 Hours

 

Components of Resilience and Definition of Stress

• The definition of resilience

• The benefits of resilience

• The components of resilience; assessing your personal strength in each

• Strategies to raise each component

• The Pressure - Stress continuum

• Exploring of the causes of stress

 

Physiological Effects of Stress

• Our brains response to stress

• The health implications of stress

• The early warning signs

 

Levels of Stress

• Identifying levels of stress and how it can intensify if not recognized

• Implications of stress for individuals and the organization

 

Managing our Reponses to Events

• The key threats

• Attitude – our personal resource

• Cognitive restructuring and self-talk – how to modify our responses

 

Increasing Resilience

• Defining your position on the continuum

• Nutrition, Exercise and Breathing

• The Locus of control – increasing your sphere of influence

 

Practical Techniques

• Techniques and coping strategies

• Sources of support

• Management responsibilities to work related stress