(Oxford) Double Diploma: Stress and Anxiety Management
What you'll learn
- Identify the main causes of stress
- Examine numerous healthy coping skills that deal with stress
- Examine unhealthy coping skills - and avoid!
- How to organise a Hygge week-end
- The Instructor's main methods to reduce stress
Requirements
- None
Description
Are you stressed?
Do you know others who are stressed?
This course is for you; it is for them - help others, help yourself.
Stress causes short AND long term harm.
Stress is the biological response to intrinsic or extrinsic stimulus. This biological stress response involves interconnections among the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. The two most well known stress-related biological mechanisms are:-
sympathetic arousal
activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical (HPA) axis.
The biological stress response involves interconnections among the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems.
Distress (negative stress) can lead to physical symptoms including headaches, upset stomach, elevated blood pressure, chest pain, and problems sleeping. Research suggests that stress also can bring on or worsen certain symptoms or diseases.
Stress has been linked to illnesses that include cancer, lung disease, fatal accidents, suicide, and cirrhosis of the liver.
Other negative effects:
Long term disability
Weakens immune system
Ages you
Can ruin your heart
Can ruin your teeth and gums
Makes it difficult to control emotions
But...we can do a lot to reduce stress - hundreds of tips - and this is what the course (plus workbooks) is about!
You have lifetime access - we have different stresses throughout our lives - so there is no hurry as you work through the course. In addition to the hundreds of tips we also explore specific recommendations from the Instructor.
Participation is encouraged throughout.
NEW ANXIETY MANAGEMENT EXERCISES ADDED in late DECEMBER 2024
Sculpture
Photography
CBT
Journalling
Digital
Mandala
Collage
Relaxation
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wishes to control their stress
- Anyone who wishes to help others cope with stress
- All who are interested in reading - and stress
- All who are interested in writing - and stress
- All who are interested in nutrition - and stress
- All who are interested in exercise - and stress
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,515 Reviews
- 252,590 Students
- 143 Courses
Studied at:
· University of Oxford (Philosophy and Economics)
· Oxford Brookes (Teacher training)
· University of Glamorgan (Business and Economics)
Qualifications
· Professional qualifications at Masters level
· Business and Economics degree
· Examiner for four major examining boards, at ‘O’ and ‘A’ level.
· Three teaching diplomas plus CELTA
· Qualified fitness trainer
Key academic positions held:
· Principal Oxford School of Learning
· Director of Studies: St Joseph’s Hall, Oxford
· Head of Economics: Cherwell Tutors
· Head of Business and Economics: Pipers Corner School, Buckingham
· Founder: Almost Random Theatre
I have experience in four main areas:
a. Teaching (40+ years of face-to-face experience)
b. Running businesses and conferences
c. Acting in films and theatre
d. Volunteering for a number of charities
Teaching/Instructor experience
Face-to-face: MBA students on a 1-1 basis; at University; Grammar, Comprehensive and F.E. College. This has included being Principal, Director of Studies; Head of Business and Head of Economics at various times in the past 40 years!
I have taught: Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics, English Literature and Psychology.
I have also run seminars for Teachers of |Psychology, Sociology, Businessman Economics.
I have run Therapeutic Art groups at Care Homes.
The success of my Business and Economics students has been featured in several newspapers plus I have appeared on BBC.
Running businesses and conferences.
I started Oxford School of Learning in the 1980s. From the college came Marketing Education Services, OSL Training and Saturday tutors.
In 201 I started Almost Random Theatre and have taken actors to Poland and the Czech Republic as well as running Drama days at schools.
Writing: my plays are sold to schools; I have 100+ books on Amazon; I used to write a regular column for The Guardian and BBC Bitesize.
Acting in films and theatre
My plays are sold to schools. I have performed at Oxford and Brighton Fringes as well as appearing in 100+ films, national TV advertising campaigns and role-played a hospital patient for Buckingham University’s medical degree students.
Volunteering
I have worked/am still working for Care Homes, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dystonia Society, Stroke Association, Stroke Club, Talkback, Oxford Recovery College, Tandem, Age UK and Sport in Mind. I’ve given my tutorial fees to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Dystonia Society. I currently have a GoFundMe page to help lonely elderly people.
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 5,594 Reviews
- 144,268 Students
- 85 Courses
Almost Random Theatre is a theatre company started in 2012. After putting on plays at Oxford and Brighton fringes, taking actors to Poland and Czech Republic, selling plays to schools, putting on many short plays in Oxford, visiting 60+ schools and running 'drama days' it was decided to...slow down.
The theatre's main contribution now is helping with numerous Art Therapy courses.
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 7,712 Reviews
- 183,396 Students
- 52 Courses
Oxford School of Learning was set up in 1986. It became a limited company which was then closed down around 2018 as there was no need to keep it going. The School kept going though, writing/providing books, online courses and issuing the Oxford School of Learning Diploma to those who met difficult criteria.
As the name suggests, Oxford School of Learning is based in Oxford, UK. The original Principal was Chris Sivewright who now delivers various Economics and Business courses for us.