Stress and Resilience Workshop

Description

Modern life challenges our ability to cope, thrive and flourish, and as a result stress has become a pressing concern for many people. Recent evidence shows that a substantial proportion of university students experience particularly high levels of stress.

This weekend workshop will include a general consideration of stress as well as reflections on pandemic-related stress. It will use an engaging "hands-on" approach to focus on the nature, causes and effects of stress and to explore a broad range of practical coping skills and resilience-building strategies. Using practical workshops and mini-lectures, the course will examine biological, psychological and social aspects of stress, and will draw on the field of positive psychology as well as a number of traditional stress and resilience theories. Participants will be shown how to develop a personal action plan for enhancing their resilience and broadening their skills for coping with both long-term stress and critical…