Understand and manage your stress better

Goals

• Better understand what stress is and identify its mechanisms
• Be aware of the "body-head-heart" link for global stress management
• Improve stress management

This training can be combined with the "Emotions Management" training.

Target audience

Anyone who wants to prevent stress and improve stress management.

Prerequisite

None

Contents

Understanding stress

• Overview and definition
• The 5 categories of stressors, occupational factors and individual factors, weight and interaction of factors
• Biological and psychological mechanisms of stress; its 3 phases
• The 4 types of stress symptoms
• The consequences of stress

Preventing stress, act facing stress

• The 3 levels of prevention
• Stress: a matter of perception!
• Body-Head-Heart Connection: Physical, Mental and Emotional Aspects
• 3 tracks:
  • Recognise, accept, share your stress (and that of others!)
  • Acting on sources of stress
  • Reduce your own stress
• Managing stress in practice:
  • Acting on the body: healthy living; techniques and practices of well-being and relaxation
  • Improve state of mind: organisation (planning and priorities); realism; optimism
  • Managing emotions

Know yourself better to manage stress more easily

• Assess one's own stress and perceptions, identify possible gaps between perceptions and reality
• Recognise your own stressors and warning signs
• Identify its avenues of progress and develop an action plan