Stress Management

What is the aim of the exercise? | This exercise aims at providing a general overview of what is stress and how it can be managed. |
In what context is this exercise useful? | This exercise is useful to provide some basics on stress management. It includes practical tips and trick on how to reduce stress. |
Preparation time: 30-60 min (depending how much info you want to read) Workshop time: 60 minutes Ideal group size: 20 people (can be less or more) Contact of Workshop Developer: | Equipment and tools needed:
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Activity & Format | Time | Instructions | Facilitation Notes |
Check-In | 5 min |
| Start with answering the check-in question by yourself and let everyone share and then hand the word over to someone else. Want to go fast with larger group? Enumerate each number gradually from 0 to 5. Ask participants to raise their hand for the stress level they feel right now. |
Input: Introduction to stress | 5 to 15 min | Check information sheet attached to this workshop for input. Cover following:
| The way to present this information is up to the facilitator. It’s possible to create slides with the provided information or select some parts to highlight verbally to participants (may take more or less than 10-15 minutes depending). Pro tip: get participants to throw in ideas to answer the topic (e.g., ask them what they think is stress? What they think are the signs, causes, etc.) |
Exercise & sharing: Think of a situation you felt very stressed | 10 min | How did you feel physically and emotionally? What did you do to make yourself feel better? | Ask participants to group in pairs (or assign them in breakout rooms if virtual) and ask them to discuss the two questions (they get about 5 min each). |
Input: Stress management | 10 min | There is wide range of information about techniques, habits and so on to deal with stress. Find more resources at the bottom. We will focus on 3 to make it digestible and applicable.
| Feel free to select a different input if you think other techniques listed in the attached resources seem better to you. |
Practice: 5 senses meditation | 5 min | Easy 5 min meditation: tap into your senses – an old meditative trick that you can use, anywhere anytime. By tuning into your senses; See, smell, touch, taste and hear, this will automatically slow down the brain. Spend at least one minute on each:
| Ask participants to get in a comfortable position. They can find a space away from others if they wish to do so. If online, they can turn off their camera if they prefer. Guide the participants through this easy meditation. Use a stopwatch and allow one minute for each sense. Slowly read through the components of each sense. |
Practice: grounding | 5 min | See the images about the coffee example. | Ask participants to get something to drink if possible. Otherwise to find an object or something they can observe and feel. |
Check-out | 5 min |
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Positive Psychology: 62 Stress Management Techniques https://positivepsychology.com/stress-management-techniques-tips-burn-out/ Dealing with Stress: Habit for Stress management: Stress Buster:
WHO playbook on stress: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240003927
Canadian's Center for Addictions and Mental health info about stress : |
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