
Welcome to the course! I'm so pleased to have you along for this short course, and I'm very much looking forward to sharing some ideas, and some tips and techniques with you, and which I'm very hopeful you will find both useful and interesting.
These tips and techniques videos have been extracted from the longer 'Top 20 Stress Management Tips and Techniques' course that you can find elsewhere here on Udemy.
I'm genuinely thrilled that you've signed up for the course, and that you're taking the time to invest in your wellbeing in this way. You are unique and your self-care is very important. This course aims to support you with that.
I am a highly qualified and experienced stress management trainer and coach. and I have worked in this specific role and area since 2003, having been involved in developing people for over 35 years. I have extensive experience working with groups and individuals, both in the public and private sectors – having initially worked in this role in central government - including with large and smaller organisations, tech companies, banks, central and local government, the police and the NHS, amongst others. I have worked with 1000’s of groups and 1-1 clients over the years.
My qualifications include but are not restricted to the following: Diploma in Stress Management (Centre for Stress Management); Diploma in Coaching (NCFE) and Certificate in Coaching (Centre for Coaching); Advanced Certificate in Employee and Organisation Support (accred. Middx University); Certificate in Training Practice (CIPD); City and Guilds Certificate in Adults Learning; Certificate in Mediation Skills (OCR).
Please download and print off this workbook.
3 techniques here that encourage us to
- separate and detach from our thoughts and observe them
- allocate a specific period of worry time
- project into the future and ask ourselves how important this worry/stressor may be then, looking back
Workbook at the ready please! We're exploring here how we might deal with a difficult situation we're in by:
- taking a '3rd party' view
- asking ourselves how someone we admire would deal with it/what they would do
Lastly, we'll look at the benefits of smiling, and how we smile becaue we're happy, but equally, how we can induce feelings of happiness by smiling.
Please have your workbook to hand to follow and then undertake the exercise therein. We're looking here at identifying and recognising it when we're thinking in unhelpful ways, as a first step to doing something about it. We're noting too that if we do think our way into trouble, that means we can think our way out of trouble too!
We're practicing here an exercise in 'present moment awareness', where we focus on the here and now, what we can see, hear, feel and so on. This can be especially helpful if we find ourselves 'time travelling' to the past or the future, and feeling weighed down by either of these. The present moment is of course all we currently have control of: the past is gone and the future isn't here yet, and if we're experiencing either of those times in an unhelpful way, being mindful and present brings us back and allows us to appreciate the moment.
Thanks for completing the course. I'm hopeful that you've found the tips and techniques useful and interesting, and that you'll complete the 'Action Planning' worksheet so you can try out and practice a few of them.
You'll find a wider range of tips and techniques, in the full 'Top 20 Stress Management Tips and Techniques' 90-minute course that you'll also find here on Udemy. It would be great to see you there!
Until next time, take care
Best wishes
Marc
Hi there, thanks for stopping by!
This free introductory course has been put together using lessons taken from my longer ‘Top 20 Stress Management Tips and Techniques’ course that you’ll also find here on Udemy.
I've created these courses because I wanted to share with you some relevant, useful, transforming, tried and tested techniques in terms of behaviours, mindset, habits, perspective, attitudes to help us to prevent stress occurring in the first place, or to manage it if it has started to become a problem. We can then work towards making the most of ourselves and living our best lives. If we're getting stressed more often than we think is good for us, then we're unlikely to be able to do that.
This mini-course is by way of an introduction for anyone looking to prevent or manage stress, and by extension manage their emotions, in practical and straightforward ways, so that you can make the most of yourself and situations, and ensure that challenge doesn’t become adversity.
There are 8 brief videos in all, with a workbook to accompany the course. You’ll learn some thinking skills; how to deal with worrying; about being mindful and present and some quick-fire stress management techniques.
On completion of the course, you’ll put together an action plan of how you’re going to start implementing/practicing the techniques you’ve learned herein.
Let's get started!