Managing Stress Effectively
| Course Number: | GI 019 | Scheduled Sessions: | ||||
| Cost Per Person: | $99 |
November 19, 2009 |
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| Eligibility: | All | |||||
| Instructor: | Dan Harkness | |||||
| Length: | 1 Day (8:30 - 4:30) | |||||
| Location: | Des Moines, Hoover State Office Building, Level A | |||||
Stress plays a significant role in everyone's life, with the four greatest sources of stress being relationships, health, job, and finances. Everyone knows about the concept of stress but few realize the impact that stress can have on emotional and physical health. Stress builds up over time and without effective stress management skills, everyone reaches their "breaking point." Once this point is reached, negative consequences of stress occur that are more difficult to manage than daily nuisances. We have a choice to allow stress to be a negative event or a positive motivator in our lives.
This course encourages participants to acknowledge their personal stressors and determine both helpful and harmful responses in their lives. Participants will learn the connection emotion and behavior in response to stress and will be encouraged to develop multiple approaches for confronting and defeating stress. Participants will be challenged to confront stressors in all aspects of their lives, from families and relationships to thinking processes to personal lifestyle choices. By the end of the course, participants will have constructed a personal stress-management program that they can use to motivate them to greater health and well-being.