Building Resilience Through Challenging Times
Join Susan to learn a series of practical, actionable and evidence-based practices to create calm, peace and security.
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Description
Course fee
This course offers a course fee subsidy through funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for NZ citizen and permanent migrant adults, their partners on work visas or visitor visas, and refugees. To qualify, registrants should be over the age of 16 years and not currently enrolled in a secondary school. We need to collect extra information such as age, ethnicity, educational achievement and gender for statistical purposes. You must also provide evidence of NZ citizenship, residency or refugee status if requested. A condition of accepting a course fee subsidy is that you commit to at least 80% attendance of your course.
About the course
Now, more than ever we are faced with numerous challenges outside of our control - potential threats to our health, income, routine and lifestyle. This often evokes feelings of anxiety, anger, depression or fear and, as humans, we resort to well-worn coping mechanisms to help us through. Hours of Netflix, accessing social media, over/under exercising, over/.under eating, isolating etc. While these strategies make us feel better in the moment they seldom lead to long-lasting peace, calm and security. This course offers some simple strategies to achieve this, and ultimately leave us feeling in control, at peace and ready to ride any storm, no matter what its name.
Who should attend this course?
Anyone who is interested in gaining self-awareness while learning and experimenting with a range of effective coping strategies that help us manage life more effectively, bringing us more joy and peace in the process.
Course outline
- Session 1-Identifying the problem-Looking at how our physiology is impacted by stressors-fight-flight-freeze. How this in turn affects our thoughts, feelings, and actions and how this tips us out of balance.
- Session 2-distress tolerance techniques and developing your own tool kit for soothing your body when heightened.
- Session 3-Mindfulness and breathing techniques-staying in the ‘here and now’, slowing our breath and doing one thing at a time
- Session 4-Identifying our basic human needs and developing assertiveness techniques to set healthy boundaries
Expected learning outcomes
- Develop self-awareness about the personal impact of stress
- Develop a tool kit to calm your body when stressed
- Learn basic mindfulness and breathing techniques
- Identify our basic human needs and getting these met
- Learn assertiveness skills and setting healthy boundaries
