Stress Management
- Openers
- Exercise: What does change feel like?
- Case study: How would you react to this change?
- Introduction: How to Chill
- Course objectives and road map
- Game: The power of laughter
- Does stress kill? The four stages of stress
- Dealing with Stress as if It Were Your Enemy
- The reactive approach: Recuperation
- The adaptive approach: Prevention
- The proactive approach: Perspective
- Exercise: When to use which approach
- How to Recuperate
- Case study: I know I’m stressed ‘cause of how I feel
- Handling the systems and stressors of stress
- An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Spinach
- Maneuvering through stress with what you eat
- What does exercise do for stress?
- Urgency and crisis management – shifting priorities
- Stress of working with others’ personalities and conflicting goals – outcome vs. process
- Managing my personal energy
- Perspective: The Way to Handle Stress Long Term
- Moving from a three-step process for dealing with stress to a one step process
- Video: Lighten Up
- Discussion: Using the humor perspective to change your outlook on life
- The “Now” focus
- Recognizing levels of importance
- Close Out
- Wrap-up and Q & A
- Action Plan
