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Mental Wellness: Stress, Mindfulness & Resilience
Rating: 4.9 out of 5(12 ratings)
209 students

Mental Wellness: Stress, Mindfulness & Resilience

A scientific and practical approach.
Created byDouglas Kong
Last updated 10/2022
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand the different types of stress and their effects on the body
  • Be able to use techniques such as mindfulness practice to manage stress
  • Know the steps to take to increase their resilience and to overcome stress
  • Be able to implement an action plan to make changes in their lifestyle to increase resilience and regulate stress

Course content

4 sections • 14 lectures • 1h 2m total length

  • 1.1 Introduction2:18

    Explore how stress, including Covid 19 pandemic, affects body and health, identify what stresses you, and apply mindfulness and resilience strategies to regulate stress and build an action plan.

  • Opening video1:34

    Explore the science and practical tools of stress, mindfulness, and resilience, and learn to apply techniques to improve daily life.

  • 1.2 Updated concept of stress6:38

    Explains how stress is a normal alarm system activated by daily demands, with adrenaline and cortisol shaping fight‑or‑flight responses, and how chronic stress from hassles and fewer uplifts harms health.

  • 1.3 The stress response9:26

    Explore how the stress response triggers adrenaline for fight or flight, the amygdala's role, and cortisol's impact on acute, chronic, and traumatic stress.

  • 1.4 Effect of stress8:20

    Identify physical and psychological stress symptoms and the health risks of chronic stress, including effects on telomeres, BDNF, hippocampus, and burnout. Explore how mindfulness balances stress for optimal performance.

Requirements

  • Be conversant in the use of English language equivalent to the level of a GCSE education

Description

In this course, you will be learning about these 3 concepts: Stress, Mindfulness and Resilience, from both scientific and practical perspectives. Once you understand these 3 concepts well, you will be able to apply them meaningfully to your life so that they can support you whenever you are facing stress.

Mindfulness for stress reduction and regulation is a powerful technique. Its use is not limited to stress reduction, but it can be the foundation for installing good, positive habits including that of resilience.

More importantly, once you understand resilience, nurturing your resilience is the best protection from the harmful effects of stress. Learn what is resilience, understand what resources can support it, and the kind of behaviours that will nurture it. Besides being positive, what are the kind of habits and attitudes that will encourage you to be resilient. What kind of behaviours does resilience support, so that you can recognize resilience in yourself and in those around you.

By the end of this course, you will attain the following:

· Learn how stress affect your body and your health

· Learn to make use of mindfulness practice and other aids to regulate stress level

· How resilience can make a difference to the way you cope with stress

· The qualities that constitute resilience

· Steps you can take to help yourself to be more resilient

· Behaviours that indicate a person is indeed resilient

· Develop an action plan that is resilient and aligned with your life objectives


Who this course is for:

  • For counsellors and coaches who wants an indepth knowledge of stress to help their clients better
  • For individuals who wish to help themselves or someone they know who have challenges with managing stress in their lives

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