Managing both stress and emotions

Goals

• Better understand stress and emotions; bring meaning to both; pinpoint their mechanisms
• Become aware of the link between body, head and heart, to globally take over about own stress and emotions
• Learn and practice tools to handle stress and emotions
• Heighten emotional openness; express one’s own emotions and find out redeeming role of emotions

Target audience

Anyone willing to:

• Overall prevent stress and better manage it
• Relate stress and emotions (emotional stress)
• Better understand and manage own emotions, convert them into positive energy

Prerequisite

None

Contents

Day 1: better understand and manage own stress

Understand stress

• Generalities and definition
• The 5 categories of stressors; professional and individual factors; interaction and influence of factors
• Biological and psychological stress mechanisms; its 3 stages
• 4 types of stress symptoms
• Stress consequences

Prevent stress, act upon stress

• 3 levels of prevention
• Stress: a matter of perception
• link between body, head and heart: physical, mental and emotional aspects
• 3 ways:
  • Acknowledge, accept, share own stress (and other’s)
  • Act on the sources of stress
  • Reduce own stress
• Handle own stress in practice:
  • Act on the body: healthy lifestyle; wellness and relaxation techniques and practices
  • Improve one’s mental: organization (planning and priorities); realism, optimism
  • Manage one’s emotions (day 2).

Know oneself better to better manage one’s stress

• Assess own stress and own perceptions: pinpoint potential offset from perception to reality
• Acknowledge own stressors and warning signals
• Pinpoint progression tracks and draw up an action plan

Day 2: identify, understand and better manage one’s emotions

Understand and give meaning to your emotions

• What is an emotion? Is it the same as a feeling?
• Regulatory and restorative role of emotions
• Basic emotions and their associated needs
• Mechanism of emotions; situation link - thought - emotion - behaviour

Welcome, accept and express emotions

• Avoid the “stamp collection”!
• Express the good emotion to get the answer to your needs
• Express your emotions in “I messages”
• Palette of emotions and feelings

Manage your emotions and turn them into positive energy

• Use the body and sensory approach
• Exploring limiting beliefs (drivers or paradoxical injunctions); every belief, its antidote!
• Practicing autosuggestion: building one's own mantra
• Discover and implement "alternative thinking"