Programs

Outlines:

1. Understanding your stressors

• Why manage your stress?
• Understanding the stress response
• Strategies for Stress Management
• Identifying your top 5 stressors

2. Strategies for managing stress

• Addressing Type A behavior
• Attributional styles
• Optimists and Pessimists
• Adapting your attributional style

3. Relaxation

• Addressing the physical symptoms of stress
• Recognizing and reducing tension
• Vital signs of stress

4. Physical relaxation techniques

• Sampling a range of physical relaxation techniques

5. Addressing the mental symptoms of stress

• What is deeper relaxation?
• The physiology of deep relaxation
• Relaxation rhythms
• The importance of relaxed breathing

6. Mental deep relaxation techniques

• Sampling a range of mental deep relaxation techniques

7. Next steps

• What to do when you are relaxed
• Making it happen