Exploring Religious Wisdom to Master Stress
What you'll learn
- Reducing stress
- Religious references to turn to in hard times
- How stress harms
- Stress management techniques
Requirements
- None
Description
This is an unusual course as it is centred round one theme only: turning to religion as a means of seeking guidance to reduce stress.
We start off with a lecture about making the best use of your time on this course. So many students just fast forward or skim through or watch passively. I want all students to gain as much as possible from this course.
Stress kills.
Overcoming stress is something to achieve on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
So, the initial lectures deal with:
a. Making the best use of your time on the course
b. how to use the Udemy platform (skip this section if you are an experienced student!
c. the Oxford Diploma - no-one has yet achieved this on this course. It requires work, contemplation and action.
The Main Section
This includes:
Definitions of stress
Causes of stress
How stress affects different parts of the body
Why it is important to live one day at a time
Achieving a balanced lifestyle
Taking care of your health
Caring for your Spiritual health
Stillness
Sunset
Mindfulness
Being realistic
Achieving a calm heart
The next section looks at Islam and Stress. (So this course includes Chriatian and Islamic approaches to stress.)
The third section is where you create your very own stressbook. (None of this watching a 45 minute advertorial from some MD somewhere and then going and buying his/her book for $50! You create your OWN stressbook!)
So at the end of the course you'll a) understand stress a lot better b) understand your interaction with stress and c) know how to deal with stress by referencing your own stressbook which you have created by applying the lectures.
Who this course is for:
- Everyone who wishes to reduce stress
- Anyone seeking to become a Stress Counsellor
- Anyone seeking to help others reduce stress
- Parents
- Teachers
- Social workers
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,406 Reviews
- 252,151 Students
- 144 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
- 5,521 Reviews
- 144,008 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.