Stress Management Skills Training Course: Exercises and Techniques to Manage Stress and Anxiety - Build Success in Your Life by Goal Setting, Relaxation and Changing Thinking with NLP ~ Paperback ~ Ka

Stress Management Skills Training Course. Stress is all around us and affects us all - but it isn't the same for everyone, and each of us handles it differently. One person's challenging pressure is someone else's debilitating stress. Techniques that work well for you might not be so effective for someone else. There is no single 'right answer', and that's why we want to help you build your own personal toolbox of stress management skills. This book is designed to help you rethink about how you manage and cope with stress in your life. Understand what stress is. Learn how to recognise when you are starting to be stressed. There are questionnaires to help you identify stress. Become proactive in managing your stress. The book has lots of exercises to help you enhance your skills and get you thinking. Learn how to change your response to stress. Understand how to become more positive about your life. Goal setting tools to help you move forward, a 4 step model to lasting change. Free downloadable workbook. A toolbox of ideas to help you manage your stress and anxiety. This book gives the reader a great insight into understanding and managing stress and anxiety. It incorporates many strategies and theories including Neuro Linguistic Programming, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Transactional Analysis. Everything in this book has been designed to be simple to understand, easy to apply and long lasting therefore perfect for anyone who wishes to enhance their life and reduce their stress. Easy ways of spotting and identifying stress so you can be pro-active and not re-active to managing your life. Real life easy to use tools and strategies for managing stress and pressure in work or at home. Various relaxation, breathing and neck exercises to use for yourself or others. Advice on how to eat during times of stress and foods that aid or further stress the body. Free downloadable, easy to apply scripts and guided questions that you can start to use immediately. An easy to follow 4 step model of goal setting to make lasting changes. Authors personal experiences and guidance of tried and tested methods. Analysis of beliefs and the brain on how we can cause or reduce our own stress. Understanding the 'fight or flight' natural reaction and what we can do to manage it plus how it impacts on the immune system. Nutrition and supplement guidance and links to professional bodies. 2 stress awareness questionnaires. A comprehensive holistic package to help you to understand and manage stress for yourself and others. By taking a more personal, inward-looking approach you can gain far more control and make far more changes than you can by simply waiting and hoping for the world to change around you. By the end of this course you'll have a much deeper awareness of how you create your own stress and what you can do about it. You'll discover that around 80 per cent of the stress you currently suffer maybe in your head! You'll also find out what you can do to change it for good. As part of this unique style of training we'll be looking at your beliefs and your own rule structures. This will allow you to challenge yourself, in a safe environment, to really consider whether you need, or would like to make, a few adjustments to hoe you think about stress. We'll also walk you through easy restructuring and change processes which will allow you to view things differently and start to make deep, long lasting changes. The course is a little different, informal and lots of fun. All we ask is that you open your mind, take from the course what is right for you, and enjoy! About the author - Kathryn Critchley, With over 14 years' experience of high-pressure sales and management roles in the telecoms industry with organisations such as BT and Orange and over 6 years' experience working for the NHS, Kathryn understands the dynamics of team-building, change management, employee motivation and organisational productivity. She has provided training, coaching or therapy for organisations such as the NHS, Victim Support and Witness Service, Cisco Systems, Peugeot, British Gas, IBM, Royal Sun Alliance, various councils, schools and universities, and is also a trainer with the CIPD. Kathryn is passionate about helping people make positive changes and achieve their goals. She achieves remarkable results through seminars and workshops, as well as one to one interventions. She has over 12 years' experience as a coach, therapist and trainer and a wide range of qualifications, including: Dip Counselling, Master NLP Practitioner, INLPTA NLP Master Practitioner, Cert Hypnotherapy, Dip Hypnotherapy, Hypnotherapy Master Practitioner, Graduate Anthony Robbins Mastery University, Dip Stress Management, Cert Advanced Transactional Analysis, Cert Corporate Consulting, Cert Life Coaching, Dip Performance Coaching, Cert Advanced Life Coaching, Cert NLP Life Coaching. She has also written Coaching Skills Training Course see www.UoLearn.com. In this book she shares some of the knowledge and skills that have helped her to manage her own stress and empowered others to do the same. What do people think about stress management skills training course book? A stress management book with a difference; it really covers all the angles and helps the reader to truly understand themselves before then arming them with everything they need to make positive and lasting changes. I loved how simple this book is to read yet has many powerful insights and solutions to being pro-active in managing stress and pressure. All the techniques shown are easy to apply in the workplace too in fact at anytime which makes it very effective in any stressful moment. The book covers all the basics of stress management plus so much more. It looks at areas I hadn't considered before such as how our thoughts and beliefs can create our stress and not just our external environment. I learnt a lot about myself and others. Great to use for managing workplace stress and managing your team more effectively. I liked how this book brought in other models such as NLP to understand and manage stress and that many of the strategies have been tried and tested so I know it really will work.Table of ContentsDedication 3 About the author, Kathryn Critchley 4 Contents 5 Disclaimer and cautions 7 Introduction 8 Course objectives 11 Session 1: Stress and Beliefs 13 The comfort zone 15 Beliefs 18 Common limiting beliefs 21 Personal reflection - stress and change, the fear of change 27 Session 2: The Nature of Stress 29 What is stress? 31 Good and bad stress 38 Stress versus performance 40 Stress audit 44 Errors in thinking 46 Making realistic changes 51 Personal reflection - The importance of spotting the signs and being proactive in managing stress 53 Session 3: Recognising Stress 55 Signs and symptoms of stress 57 Fight, flight or freeze? 62 Stress awareness and evaluations 70 Personal reflection - your starting point. 78 Session 4: Thinking Strategies 81 Managing your mental state 83 Mind/body connection - the brain's processes 85 Compounding and filtering 87 Positive thinking 95 Personal reflection - creating your own reality 104 Session 5: Health, Exercise and Relaxation 107 Why think about what you eat? 109 Healthy eating to combat stress 111 Hydration 120 Physical exercise 122 Relaxation and meditation 125 How to breathe properly 127 Personal reflection - the importance of good nutrition and hydration 138 Session 6 : Integration of Strategies and Action Plan 141 Summary and tips to beat stress 143 Stress-beating strategies 145 Choose to take positive control of your life. 149 Goal setting and plans 150 Step 1: The life areas assessment tool 151 Step 2: Mindmaps or sun diagrams 153 Step 3: Well formed outcome 156 Step 4: Goal-setting chart 163 Personal reflection - setting goals 167 Index 170 Further Reading 173 About the publishers 177Author BiographyAbout the author Kathryn Critchley, ReaLife Ltd With over 14 years' experience of high-pressure sales and management roles in the telecoms industry with organisations such as BT and Orange and over 6 years' experience working for the NHS, Kathryn understands the dynamics of team-building, change management, employee motivation and organisational productivity. She has provided training, coaching or therapy for organisations such as the NHS, Victim Support and Witness Service, Cisco Systems, Peugeot, British Gas, IBM, Royal Sun Alliance, various councils, schools and universities, and is also a trainer with the CIPD. Kathryn is passionate about helping people make positive changes and achieve their goals. She achieves remarkable results through seminars and workshops, as well as one to one interventions. She has over 12 years' experience as a coach, therapist and trainer and a wide range of qualifications, including: Dip Counselling, Master NLP Practitioner, INLPTA NLP Master Practitioner, Cert Hypnotherapy, Dip Hypnotherapy, Hypnotherapy Master Practitioner, Graduate Anthony Robbins Mastery University, Dip Stress Management, Cert Advanced Transactional Analysis, Cert Corporate Consulting, Cert Life Coaching, Dip Performance Coaching, Cert Advanced Life Coaching, Cert NLP Life Coaching. She has also written Coaching Skills Training Course, see www.UoLearn.com and her website is www.realifeltd.co.uk In this book she shares some of the knowledge and skills that have helped her to manage her own stress and empowered others to do the same.