C11: A Practical Approach to Stress Management
The purpose of the workshop is to enable participants to understand that stress is unavoidable part of everybody’s life; recognize the symptoms that reflects chronic stress overload; identify situations that cause greatest stress and categorize actions which add to the stress level.
Participants will be able to identify the best approaches to a stressful situation (Alter, Avoid and Accept), understand the source of stress, physical and behavioral symptoms of stress, and differentiate between positive and negative stress.
Participants will also be equipped with simple authentic and practical tools and techniques to reduce and manage day-to-day stress, change/modify their lifestyles, situations and actions and lead a positive life without overwhelming stress.
The facilitation strategy of the workshop will be combination of inputs from the facilitator, discussion, simulation games, icebreakers, pre and post-assignment review of the stress level and practice of simple and practical tools.
This session will be of interest to managers and front line workers who are face challenges to cope up with the demands from work, home, and social pressures.
Rabindra Nath Sabat is currently working as the Program Director in Settlement Assistance and Family Support Services (previously known as South Asian Family Support Services -SAFSS) having extensive experience in organizing and facilitating training programs, workshops and seminars. Prior to joining SAFSS, he was working as the Training Director in Hetta International Training Centre (HIDC) and Program Director in Agency for Women and Children Development in New York .He has organized and facilitated four international workshops participated by senior bureaucrats, corporate managers and non-profit leaders from European, Asian and African countries. He has also served as a consultant/ trainer in DSE/ZEL in Germany on “Participatory Planning” for Asian delegates.
