Course description

• Are the pressures of college life overwhelming you?
• Do you feel irritable, tense, unfocused, or exhausted by daily life?
• Are you under so much pressure you feel like you might crack?
• Do you want a better way to deal with life, its ups, and downs, its challenges, and complications?
• Are you living in a constant state of emergency?
• Would you like to be calmer and more resilient in your approach to challenges?
• Do you need a plan to deal with stress?

In this workshop, I will present a comprehensive system for identifying sources of stress and for coping with stress. I will lead you through an analysis of the most common underlying reasons we feel stress and help you to identify what is causing you the most stress. I will teach you 13 interventions to get you back on track during your most stressful days and share a toolbox full of lifestyle and mindset changes that will lower your stress levels permanently.

You will gain a deeper understanding of how you react to stressful events and challenges and which types of challenges cause you the most stress. You will also practice a variety of stress awareness and reduction techniques through a series of 11 exercises to be completed between the short video lectures. When you finish the workshop, you will feel more confident in your ability to deal with your stress in a productive and healthy way.

The workshop contains over 4 ½ hours of video presented in 34 segments and 11 supplemental resources which you can use to practice the
coping techniques presented and customize your own stress management system.

What will you learn in this course?

• Identify your stress triggers.
• Recognize your physical and emotional responses to stress.
• Practice 13 intervention techniques to reduce your stress on your most stressful days.
• Learn 9 lifestyle and mindset changes that can reduce your stress in the long term.
• Complete 11 exercises to get to know yourself, your stress response, and your preferred methods of coping better.
• Develop a more robust and resilient approach toward dealing with stress.

Who should take this course?

• College students who are feeling stressed.
• College students who are having trouble coping with the pressures of college life.
• College students who want to be more resilient to change.
• College students who want to feel calmer and more confident in their ability to deal with challenges.
• College students who want to enjoy their time at college instead of feeling tense, irritable, and overwhelmed.