Developing Human Potential Programmes
Teaching Stress Management
This 20 hour training programme is designed for professional and personal growth. This programme will introduce participants to the eight most effective scientifically proven techniques to manage and combat the effects of stress in a supportive environment. Participants will learn to design a training strategy for theirtargeted population using these proven techniques.
Programme Aims:
1) To define the main theories of Stress and outline what they mean.
2) To identify the main categories of Stress and distinguish the stressors from within these categories.
3) To outline the long term and short term effects of stress and recognise the effects in everyday lives.
4) To outline the key skills for managing stress and matching considerations for developing a personalised programme for managing stress.
5) To practice the keys skills selected on the programme as part of an individual stress management programme.
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will know the main theories of stress and their meaning and be able to identify key stressors from their own experience and facilitate others to identify theirs.
2) Participants will able to assess the resources that work most effectively for individuals to deal with stress.
3) Participants will able to prepare an individual stress management programme compiled from the key skills and resources practiced in the training course.
4) Participants will be able to monitor a stress management training programme and adapt it as skills develop and improve as a result of practice and evaluation.
Programme Structure:
This programme is experiential in nature and is facilitated in a relaxed and supportive manner with emphasis on personal engagement. Participants will explore the most effective techniques for managing stress including breathing techniques, progressive muscular relaxation, visualization, autogenics, meditation, cognitive restructuring, coping and wellness.
Programme Outline:
• What is stress and how it affects us
• The symptoms of poorly managed stress
• The physiology of stress
• Stress in the workplace
• The key resources to manage stress
• Developing a strategic plan to manage stress
• Developing a personalised stress management practice
• Developing a personal wellness plan
Who is the programme for?
Health care professionals, psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, educators, human resource personnel, occupational therapists, somatic educators, and anyone who deals with stress and its effects in their daily lives. A train the trainer course to become a Stress Management Instructor will follow this programme.
Programme Fee:
Programme fee is €700.
Programme Location:
Tipperary Institute – Thurles Campus.
Programme Dates:
Tipperary Institute, Thurles Campus: Autumn 2009
20 hour programme delivered over 5 days.
Information:
Further information, contact:
the Stress Management Institute of Ireland
Tel: 01 4789469
Web: www.stressmanagement.ie or www.tippinst.ie
