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Stress, Resilience and Mental Toughness: In-House

In a 24/7 world we are exposed to stress from many different angles. Handled well, this can boost our performance; handled badly, it can have a real impact on our wellbeing.

We all need to be able to manage different stresses and pressures if we are to think clearly, make the right decisions and avoid unnecessary stress and worry. This workshop explores the best way of doing that, giving you a range of strategies to use, based on a number of proven models and approaches. It will help you understand your stress and pressure points, develop your resilience and move towards mental toughness and 'grit'.

Understand the nature of stress and its impact on our lives

Learn how to turn stress to your advantage

Understand the 'Control / Support / Demand' model and be able to use it to achieve healthy work/life balance

Understand how mindfulness can help you manage your personal reactions to stress

Develop strategies for increasing your resilience, toughness and self-care

Find out how to develop your coping mechanisms

Learn how to deal with pressured situations more effectively

Understanding and defining stress

Different workplace pressures - and the different responses to them

The difference between pressure and chronic stress

Why the way you think about stress changes the way your body responds to it

The upside of stress

Why it's important to avoid sustained periods of stress

2 Factors that trigger stress

The Demand Control Support Model - why high demand alone doesn't cause unhealthy stress

The difference between acute and episodic stress

3 Recognising stress

How to recognise stress

The role of emotion

How the body responds to stress - spotting the signals

4 Mindfulness

Mindfulness - the definition

Mindfulness - the hype

Mindfulness - the science

How re-framing thoughts can change everything

The A-B-C-D model

5 Mental toughness and 'grit'

What do we mean by 'mental toughness'?

The benefits

How to build it - the Grit scale test

6 Resilience and 'bounce'

What do we mean by 'resilience'?

How to bounce back

Developing strategies for resilience

7 The locus of control

Who's in charge?

How to manage your thoughts to take positive action in times of pressure and challenge

8 Dealing with difficult situations

A series of workplace situations - sharing suggestions and strategies for managing each of them

9 Self-care

Diet and fitness

Attitude

Organisation and

Taking time for ourselves

Developing a self-care plan

10 Actions and next steps

Developing a self-care plan

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Personal action planning

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