Training

Title:	Stress management
Trainer:	Amanda Keruze

Benefits for you and your orgabization

Applying the obtained knowledge and skills, you will:

• determine your prevailing behaviour style; 
• guide communication in the desired way, provoking less negative reaction in others. 

The seminar enables development of social skills that help reducing stressful situations in daily routine, as well as increases emotional stability.

Objective

Advance participants’ understanding of stress, its significance, allowing them to take responsibility for their feelings and become more flexible in adapting to the demands of environment.

Before the seminar

A survey in a form of a questionnaire is conducted three weeks before the seminar to assess the level of stress.

Seminar themes

Day 1

What is stress?	Definition of stress, causes of stress.
Stress generation  - causes and mechanisms	Impact of the environment. Anxieties.
The positive and negative symptoms of stress	Psychological and physiological aspects.
Accepting stress	Functional and dysfunctional coping with stress (measured physical exercise, conflict solving, getting to know oneself, workaholism, avoidance of problems).
Knowing personal limits for productive stress recognition and integration	Physical, intellectual, emotional, sexual, social, time, financial limits.
Stress in relation to body awareness	Do we listen to, feel the body signalling a necessity for rest and change in the lifestyle? What are the individual signals of a person? What are one’s specific “weak spots” of attention in the body at this moment?

Homework after Day 1

Allocate at least 15-20 min. a day for yourself. Report on the chosen activity.
Every participant will choose 1-2 activities during the first day of the seminar.

Day 2

Long term stress causes	Family history, childhood experiences, lifetime events, accumulated stress.
Stress feeders	Stress feeders, self-destructive internal contradictions, suppressed feelings, lack of self-confidence in communication, lack of skills to take care of oneself, muscle tension, diet factors, lack of direction, lack of meaning of one’s life, high stress level lifestyle.
Intervention in different stress sources	Intervention in physical, emotional, interpersonal, existential, and mental sources of stress.
Stress elimination	Taking responsibility , motivation, decision making, risk taking. Physical activity, interpersonal contact, differentiation of personality from the professional role.
Time management	Time management and planning for time-off.

Time work after Day 2

Development of personal stress elimination program to record daily progress.

Day 3

Home work reporting	Discussions, presentation of reports, analysis of difficulties implementing individual program. Answer of questions of participants after the two-day training.
Taking care of the body	Diet, food, physical exercise and emotional wellbeing.
Closing-in	Repeat and/or add some more methods of stress elimination that could be generated implementing the Day 2 program in practice.

Methodology

Day 1. Balance between theory, practical exercises, and analytical training is maintained throughout the seminar. Explanation, modelling, and application of behaviour types take place in group classes, using the feed-back from group’s participants.
Day 2. Classes and training: relaxation, breathing, meditation, visualisation techniques.
Day 3. Practical exercises: presentations, discussions and bits of theory.

Participants

Everyone interested to develop successful communication with others and take the responsibility for its consequences. For internal training of peers only.

Seminar trainer - Amanda Ķeruže

Mag. Psych., psychologist – psychotherapist (psycho-organic analysis).  

Seminar duration

The number of days and hours of the seminar are to be adjusted in a prior agreement.