Stress Management Mondays

We're running our Stress Awareness for Individuals course and our Assertiveness Skills course on the second Monday of every month at our premises in Eldon Square in Reading.

Course dates: 12 July 2010, 9 August 2010, 13 September 2010, 11 October 2010, 8 November 2010, 13 December 2010

Times:

Stress Awareness - 9:30am to 12:30pm

Assertiveness Skills - 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Cost to attend each session: £75 per delegate

STRESS AWARENESS FOR INDIVIDUALS

Course Aim

The aim of this course is to help individuals to prevent stress and provide strategies for dealing with it if it does occur.

Course Programme

What stress is and where it comes from
The four response areas (physical; mental; emotional; behavioural)
What the symptoms are and how to identify them
How thinking can affect feeling and behaviour
Preventing and coping strategies

The focus of this course is on identifying stress, acknowledging it and dealing with it.

Course Details

The course provides practical stress management techniques to help prevent and deal with stress in our professional and personal lives. It introduces a working definition of stress, and differentiates between positive 'pressure' - or challenge - and the negative impact stress can have. It identifies the sources of stress, which can very often be determined by our perceptions. It looks at the four response areas and how we can respond in each area. It explores the relationship between thinking, feeling and behaving, and examines where some of our unhelpful thinking can come from. It provides practical strategies for preventing and dealing with stress, along with the opportunity to complete a personal stress plan.

To book a place on the course, click here

ASSERTIVENESS SKILLS

Course Aim

This 3-hour course is aimed at individuals within and without organisations, to provide practical tools and techniques to help you to be assertive when you choose to be. Assertiveness is about relationships, and it may be that you wish to

improve the quality of your relationships - some of them, all of them - and improve your self-confidence, as relationships at home/at work aren't all how you want them to be
persuade others to do as you wish, without coming across as bullying as you are in a position of authority at home/at work

Course Programme

The course programme for this practical, participative session covers: what we mean by assertiveness; the different behaviours associated with being assertive, aggressive and passive; why it is that we behave in these ways; the advantages and disadvantages of each behaviour; practicing the '3-step model'; dealing with 'difficult' people; practicing the '3-step model plus'; some specific assertiveness skills.

Course Details

The session looks at why we behave in assertive and non-assertive ways and some of the pitfalls and advantages of the different behaviours (assertive; aggressive; passive). It provides an opportunity to explore and practice some assertiveness techniques. It does not show how to change other people - although being assertive may well lead to changes in the way others behave towards us - rather it identifies what we can do for ourselves to express ourselves as we want to, when we want to. We also examine when and why it may not always be appropriate to assert oneself - what we're interested in is being able to be assertive when we choose to.

To book a place on the course, click here

To obtain further details, please email info@stressmanagementplus.com or call 0118 9721820