Course for Optimal Health and Well-being
Designed for the Workplace
What if you could manage stress so you felt calmer, more focused, more effective? In this course, you'll learn simple, evidence-based strategies to help you deal with everyday stress.
Learn to shift from conditioned patterns and reactions that may no longer serve you. Move out of autopilot and into present-moment awareness, from reacting to responding to situations in your life.
You will learn a variety of mindfulness-based practices, participate in self-assessment tools, lecture, discussions, and practice everyday mindfulness at work and home over a 6-week period. This approach supports a greater connection between the mind and body, helping you cultivate practical ways of responding to stress that can be utilized far beyond the completion of the program.
You will learn strategies to help you:
- Calm the nervous system, enabling more ease in the body and clarity in the mind
- Sharpen focus so you can prioritize and tend to tasks with attention and clarity
- Strengthen connection to yourself and others, enhancing collaboration and emotional intelligence
- Build resilience so you can recover more quickly from events that may throw you off balance
6 Interactive, Experiential, Impactful Sessions
Session 1: Stress: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
- Self-assessment – examine your stress load and energy
- Overview of how stress impacts the body, brain & behavior
- Learn tools that you can apply immediately to manage stress and energy:
- POP – Pause, Observe, Proceed
- Breathing Practices to activate relaxation response
- Identify how to apply one of the tools to your daily life
Session 2: Your Stress Signature: Awareness of the Body's Stress Signals
- Recognize and respond to signs of stress in the body
- Explore your stress load (demands on life), and learn how to increase resources to tend to your stress load
- Practice
- Mindful Body Awareness Practice
- Relaxation techniques
- Identify how to apply the tools to your daily life
Session 3: Stress and the Fab 5: Maintaining a healthy Brain
- Understand how you’re fueling (or failing) the brain and body
- Assess your wellbeing regarding: sleep, nutrition, exercise, rest/recharge, social connection
- Practice
- Gentle movement
- Recharge techniques
- Applying it to your daily life to create the conditions for health & wellbeing
Session 4: Stress and Communication: Cultivating Compassion
- How stress can impact communication
- Gain a greater awareness of interpersonal communication patterns
- Practice
- Mindful Communication
- Cultivating Compassion
- Identify ways to apply the tools/strategies to your daily life
Session 5: Change your Thoughts, Change your Brain
- Recognize how the brain and nervous system react to stress
- Understand the natural tendency towards the negativity bias
- Learn how to shift thoughts to build resilience
- Practice
- Savoring a pleasant experience
- Applying this practice to your daily life
Session 6: Taking it Forward: Everyday Mindfulness
- Post 6-week series self assessment
- Review your personal Stress Management Toolbox
- Everyday practices
- Mindful walking
- Mindful eating
- Gratitude
- Set intentions to continue your practice
- Identify resources to support your practice
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Practical, bite-size tools you can start using immediately to manage stress
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Evidence-based strategies support optimal health and performance
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Solutions based in neuroscience and mindfulness research