PDSM: Stress Management

There are numerous causes of stress in our lives; many of which cannot be avoided or removed. The short-term goal of this course is to learn to reduce stress wherever possible with a long-term goal of increasing your ability to better manage yourself in stressful situations.

This course teaches you key skills and techniques like how to manage stress when it occurs, implementing relaxation techniques, identifying and avoiding stressful situations, coping with setbacks, accepting situations and altering circumstances and more. Effective stress management leads to better health, greater productivity and ultimately a better quality of life.

This course is delivered in partnership with PD Training.

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After completing this course participants will be able to:

• Master the three "A's" of a stressful situation: Alter, Avoid, Accept
• Learn what lifestyle elements can be changed to reduce stress
• Use routines to reduce stress
• Create plans and To-Do lists
• Learn environmental & physical relaxation techniques
• Learn how to cope with major events
• Learn how to use a stress log to identify stressors & create a plan to reduce or eliminate them

Positive and negative stress are a constant influence on all of our lives. The trick is to maximise the positive stress and to minimise the negative stress.  Sounds simple but it often takes thought, awareness and practice to make a difference.

This workshop teaches participants how to slow down and apply techniques like the three-option method for addressing any stressful situation (Altering, Avoiding and Accepting), as well as providing a toolbox of personal skills, including using routines, relaxation techniques, the use of planning and lists, implementing a stress log system and more.