Stress Awareness & Management
Stress awareness
Do you feel tense, tired, irritable? Lack concentration? Have trouble sleeping? Are you making mistakes? Is your memory getting worse?
Courses can be provided as one day workshops or a six week programme of shorter sessions. Each session is two hours long and combines theory with practical relaxation exercises – a blissful opportunity to get away from the pressures for a while and chill out!
Can be arranged in GP surgeries, local centres and on company premises. Please contact Sandi if you would like to set up a programme for your staff, colleagues, patients, or friends.
Learning outcomes
- personality preferences and how we respond to life’s events
- what happens to our bodies when we feel threatened
- the long term effects of stress on physical and mental health
- mastering physical symptoms
- mastering emotional symptoms
- mastering behaviour
- practising a range of symptom control techniques
- analysing individual causes and effects of stress
- creating individual plans for emergencies and long-term control
Stress management
We offer three levels of stress management;
- company audits
- staff and management training
- individual counselling
It is very important, especially in small companies, for managers to know their responsibilities - very few know what to do if an employee presents a sick certificate saying stress (which they may think they can ignore) or work-related stress (which they probably know they can't) or know how or when to do a mental health risk assessment
Learning outcomes
- Understand the difference between pressure and stress
- Know the effects of stress on individuals and teams
- Know what to do if you or a colleague should experience acute stress symptoms
- Know how to prevent or reduce the effects of stress
- Feel more in control of yourself and your life
- Know how to complete a mental health risk assessment using HSE guidelines