Welcome to Build Your Resilience - a program that gives you strategies to help you reflect, stay calm and relax to build your ability to bounce back when the going gets tough at work. Work can be rewarding - but it can also be really stressful at times and we all need strategies and practices that helps us stay calm and build our resilience for the long term.

In this program we’ll introduce you to Mindfulness - what it is and how to practice it. We’ll also help you build your “Third Space” - a mindfulness technique to help you quickly decompress in between stressful situations, by teaching you how to Reflect, Rest and Reset for recovery. We’ll then give you some healthy exercise, nutrition and sleep practices to manage your energy to reduce stress and develop resilience. And, if you need help managing your nutrition and sleep, we give you a Food and Sleep Journal to help you keep track of and be mindful of how you’re managing your energy. Lastly, we’ll give you some techniques that really work for calming you down when you, or the world around you, is stressed and out of control.

To what extent are you aware of your feelings and thoughts? Are you able to pay attention to the present moment to calm your mind and react constructively in stressful situations? Or, do you find yourself spinning out of control, unable to quiet your mind? Are you able to move calmly from one stressful situation to another, or do you find yourself carrying stress from home to work (or vice versa)? Do you have plenty of energy to manage life’s stresses or do you often find yourself tired, listless or responding out of proportion to a situation? Do you have a suite of practices that help calm you down when you feel stressed, or could you use some new tools to help you cope with day to day life? This program is for you if you often feel stressed and anxious at work and are looking for some strategies that you can adopt to reduce your level of stress. You might even find that your stress at or about work is impacting your personal life. If that’s the case, now is the time to take action.

And, at the end of the program, you’ll create your own Personal Change Plan to put into practice the strategies covered in this program to sustainably build your resilience.

Brian and Tracey, your instructors on this course, have years of experience in the workplace and understand the unique pressures that you face. They are also behaviour change experts, with a wealth of knowledge and proven strategies to help you take back control for success at work.

What you’ll learn:

· The importance of managing stress and building resilience

· Understand what mindfulness is

· Learn and practice simple mindfulness techniques

· Understand the importance of recovery cycles

· Learn to create a “Third Space” by practicing Reflect, Rest and Reset

· Manage your energy with good exercise, nutrition and sleep practices

· Learn techniques to calm you in stressful situations

· Develop a change plan to put the strategies into practice

This course is part of a series of programs designed to help you manage your stress and build your resilience for work. Our goal is to help people get more joy and satisfaction from their work, and we know that one of the factors that can really affect your work experience is the amount of stress you face.

These programs are for you if you often feel stressed and anxious at work and are looking for some strategies that you can adopt to reduce your level of stress. You might even find that your stress at or about work is impacting your personal life. If that’s the case, now is the time to take action.

You may also like to check out the other programs in our series.

• “Change Your Thinking” which helps you understand and shape your internal dialogue and thinking patterns to help you better manage yourself and your experience of stress

• “Take Back Control” helps you put yourself back in the driver’s seat of your life and build your sphere of control at work and at home

• And “Grow Your Connections” –is a look at how managing and building your personal and professional networks can act as a stress buffer or support in challenging times