Techniques to turn stress into an ally
You can't avoid stress, but you can learn to manage it! Understand its mechanisms, identify its causes and find effective, concrete solutions to excess stress. Give yourself a break to better understand stress and use it to your advantage!
Stress is essential to life, and has protected us from danger since our very beginnings. It generates hormonal discharges in our system and induces one or other of the following behaviors: fight, freeze or flight. So it's invaluable to our survival. However, if we generate too much stress hormone when it's not essential, it becomes detrimental to our health and balance. So we need to learn how to control it.
By managing your stress better, you'll be able to carry out your daily tasks more calmly, feeling more relaxed, more efficient... and certainly happier!
Is it for you ?
Any audience.
Prerequisites
None.
What You'll Walk Away With
- ✓ Identify sources and manifestations of stress in work and personal contexts
- ✓ Understand stress mechanisms and their impact on body, emotions, and performance
- ✓ Assess personal stress profile and influencing factors (personality, balance, perception)
- ✓ Apply the CINE method to analyze and reduce stressful situations
- ✓ Implement practical strategies and an action plan to prevent chronic stress
Training content
Work is important for our mental well-being, our identity and our fulfillment... as long as it doesn't generate too much stress. This means knowing how to identify and manage stress, in particular by taking a step back, adopting healthy lifestyle habits and developing our adaptability and resilience.
During the course, you'll learn about the theoretical aspects of stress management, and you'll also be equipped to deal with it in practical, concrete ways: identifying sources of pressure, understanding their manifestations and developing strategies to achieve balance in your professional and personal life.
1 How to put stress into words
- Define what stress is and what it isn't.
- Understand the difference between eustress and distress.
- Distinguish between acute and chronic stress.
- Understand the notions of absolute and relative stress.
2 What are the effects of stress?
- Discover the effects of stress on memory, the human body, hormones and the cardiovascular system.
- Assess your ability to control stress, your perception of stress and your reactivity to stress.
- Understand the devastating long-term effects of chronic stress.
- Evaluate your degree of chronic stress, according to the 4 types of manifestation: Physical, Mental, Behavioral, Emotional
- Discover the stages leading to chronic stress, according to Sonia Lupien, PhD in neuroscience, founder of the Centre de l'Étude sur le Stress Humain.
3 How to take a step back from what influences my stress
- Discover the many factors that influence stress: Age, Gender, Personality, Self-esteem, Social status, Socioeconomic status
- Evaluate your personality type (A or B)
- Evaluate your degree of optimism
- Take a step back and assess your life balance according to the 8 dimensions of well-being.
- Draw your general portrait in the face of stress
4 How to tame stress: acquiring a method
- Discover and adopt Sonia Lupien's CINÉ method for deconstructing and reconstructing stressful life events.
- Assess your degree of sensitivity to the 4 characteristics of CINÉ : (loss of) Control, Unpredictability, Novelty, Threatened ego
- Identify your needs to reduce CINÉ.
5 How to prevent chronic stress: Implement concrete tools
- Discover and put into practice the most modern and effective techniques for reducing and/or preventing chronic stress.
- Know and recognize what works for you.
6 Summarize my learning and awareness
- Create a mind map summarizing what you've learned.
- Develop an action plan
If you have any questions about registration, cancellations, timetables, language of instruction, etc., you'll find the answers in our FAQ section.
📌 Practical information
Our training sessions are offered in Montreal or Quebec City, in person or in a virtual classroom. Dates and locations are specified when you select your session below. If you have any questions, check out our FAQ.
