Course Overview
When and how do I delimit myself and say no?
When and for how long am I available?
When have the limits of my resilience been reached?
A high level of physical and mental energy is often required to continuously master a wide range of demands in everyday working life and to reconcile them in other areas of life. However, to avoid recognizing one's own limitations long after they have been exceeded and having to react to physical or psychological symptoms of overstrain, this seminar is dedicated to preventive possibilities of stress management and self-care in the sense of burnout prophylaxis.
Who should attend
This seminar is especially suitable for people who want to counteract burnout and would like to have hints and strategies for staying mentally stable and working healthily.
Prerequisites
Openness and willingness to change are encouraged.
If you have experience with stress and strain.
This seminar does not replace therapy. It is not suitable for people who are acutely ill with stress.
Course Objectives
You will learn what stress is and how it affects the body and the brain.
You will learn how to deal appropriately with stress in your everyday work.
You will develop effective self-care strategies that are suitable for everyday life.
Course Content
In addition to theoretical units and exercises to reflect on one's own work practice, strategies for maintaining and rebuilding one's own resources will be developed. The following contents will be the focus of the seminar:
- What is stress? What happens in the body during stress
- Staying healthy: recognizing symptoms of overload at an early stage
- Methods to actively perceive self-responsibility and self-care
- Consciously shaping transitions between tension and relaxation
- Forms of demarcation for appropriate contact