proactive stress management

Proactive Stress Management: The Six Steps to Stress Prevention

 

Most employees either don’t have the time to practice stress management or if they do it at all they do it reactively – after a really bad day. In this program , you will learn six steps to you’re your clients manage stress proactively, either before a stressful event happens or in real time, while their stress is happening.

 

These six steps focus on 1. Connecting the dots between your client’s symptoms of stress and their sources of stress. 2. Using problem solving to eliminate unnecessary stress. 3. Using cognitive restructuring to change their stressful thinking patterns on the fly. 4. Using present-moment awareness to turn everyday activities like walking, eating, listening and taking a shower into restorative mindfulness moments. 5. Creating a daily resilience routine, to prevent the build-up of stress. And 6., seeking social support for difficult times like a health or financial crisis.

 

Here are the six steps in more detail:

Step 1: Raising awareness 

 

Recognize the symptoms of stress including rapid heartbeat, cold hands, dry mouth, perspiration, and muscle tension and figure out, in real time, what is causing them.

Step 2: Problem-solving

Look at the problems identified in step one and do some creative problem-solving to eliminate, reduce or prevent them from happening again. 

 

Step 3: Cognitive Restructuring

For issues that don’t go away with problem-solving: Understand how one’s thinking is a MAJOR source of stress and how you can change that thinking on the fly while your stress is happening.

Step 4: Mindfulness

Understand the therapeutic value of staying in the present moment and using it to create relaxing moments throughout one’s day, without having to take any time out to do so.

Step 5: Resilience

Establish a resilience routine by creating a short set of daily activities including meditation, yoga, and/or exercise that helps PREVENT the build-up of stress throughout one’s day. 

 

Step 6: Social Support

Seek out opportunities to build a support network, throughout one’s day, by connecting with the people in specific, small ways that enhance one’s well-being and theirs.

Who Presents?

PDH approval: 4 PDHs and CEUs  Contact Hours: 4

Jim Porter, CEO of StressStop, is author of dozens of books, workbooks, audios and videos on managing stress including “The Stress Profiler,”  “Stop Stress This Minute” and “The Employee Stress Reduction and Resilience Handbook” which together have sold over 400,000 copies. Mr. Porter’s latest book, “Maximizing Mindfulness” has just been released.

 

Mr. Porter has lectured on stress management at universities, major corporations and for government agencies including: MIT, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, GlaxoSmithKline, Time Inc, The FBI, The CIA, The US NAVY and the US Army. He has presented at numerous professional conferences including EAPA, WELCOA, IRAE, National Wellness and NCEAPA. He has also appeared on The CBS Morning News, and his work has been reported on by Good Morning America, Ladies Home Journal, The Associated Press, and The NY Daily News. His articles on stress have been published online by Forbes, HuffPost, Apple News, and Inc.

COST

$325 Members

$425 Non Members

***A late fee of $50 will be charged to anyone registering in Indianapolis.  Additionally, no lunch will be available to late registrants.

What are the dates for this course?

To register with the EAPA Institute and EXPO please go to:

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 If you would like to register just for a pre conference without conference attendance, please contact us at r.byrne@eapassn.org

For more additional questions contact j.rochester@eapassn.org