Stress and Work Life Balance Workshop
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Workshop Session Plan |
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Key Learning Outcomes |
Introduction
Stress and Work Life Balance is an essential workshop for staff that are experiencing stress through customer contact, or patient care or dealing with difficult people. It is a very useful workshop for assisting staff to learn how to deal with stress effectively. Stress is a serious health issue and is increasing in society given increasing time pressures, lower skills levels, changing environments and personal health imbalances.
Workshop Session Plan
Introduction
Workshop rules Stress and techniques for work life balance
- Coping strategies
- What is stress?
- What causes stress?
- Strategies to overcome stress
- Stress relief techniques – practical
- Conflict, problem solving and communications
Wellbeing and feeling happy
- Happiness – what is it?
- Positive workplaces – how to create them
- Laughter and Clowning around session
Key Learning Outcomes
- To develop a deeper understanding of what is stress
- To understand coping strategies
- To understand the causes of stress
- To learn strategies to overcome stress and apply them in the workplace
- To learn and practice a variety of stress relief and release techniques that can be appliedbefore/after work or at work
- To learn critical thinking to stress and work life balance issues
- To understand personality type and orientation and stress levels
- To learn visualisation to decrease stress and visualise preferred outcomes
- To learn positive thinking to assist in reducing or removing stress
- To learn to identify the problem that is causing the stress
- To learn communication skills to ensure clear comprehension of situation and prevent conflict
- To understand the importance of wellbeing for body, mind and spirit
- To learn positivity with a focus on happiness
- To experience laughter and clowning to enhance stress release and feelings of happiness