Personal Resilience for Professional Competence: Understanding and managing anxiety and panic

Course Code
50113519

Course has already taken place

Provider
OD&PL

Tutor(s):
Nicola Neath,Sally Rose

Suitability
All staff.

If this date is full, then please register on our waiting list by
emailing your details to peopledev@leeds.ac.uk.

Date(s)
Thursday, July 02, 2015, 09:30 to 11:30

Max Places:
30

Description
Pre-requisites: None

Pre-work requirements: None

Overall aim of course:
The workshop aims to help participants look at the signs and symptoms of
panic and anxiety. It will introduce ideas to help you identify your
triggers and some tools and techniques to help manage yourself or
someone else.

Intended outcomes and benefits from attending:
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Have learned about what panic and anxiety responses are.
2. Explore the motivations behind behaviours and controls such as
perfectionism, mild obsessiveness, over self-control, fastidiousness.
3. Have learned about helpful behaviours or routines.
4. Have been introduced ideas to work with the states of panic and
anxiety.

Indicative content: what the session will cover:
Participants will be consider how stress can lead to feeling anxious and
panicky. These responses become reinforced by physical and psychological
reactions that exacerbate them. A chance to explore how these responses
can lead to habitual cycles of reaction. It will help participants to
recognise physical signs (such
as racing heart, tense muscles, heightened sense of alertness, sweaty
palms etc.) and psychological patterns (repetitive and obsessive
thinking) which can build up, and learn ways to break these cycles.

Learning and teaching methods: An interactive workshop.

Tutor: Nicola Neath; University of Leeds Staff Counsellor – Nicola is
also an MBACP Accredited Psychotherapist.

Related courses:
Resilience is our ability to manage and restore balance and performance.
Resilience skills help us through times of change and uncertainty,
following adversity, set-backs and times when things are, or were, too
much. These workshops support self-development. They are opportunities
to gain ideas and tools that can have a positive effect on you, your
work and your impact with others.

Positive models and individual strategies are covered to resource work,
life and organisational change, maintain creativity and support positive
relationships with others, and prepare for the future. The workshops
dovetail together and can be done in any order. They can also be taken
individually by participants who may have identified specific areas
where they would benefit from some guidance.

• Values and direction – knowing what matters personally and
professionally
• Working with stress and emotion
• Mindfulness and attention skills to steady and focus your mind
• Understanding grief, loss and setbacks in everyday life
• Switching off – relaxation and sleep
• Active approaches to worry, meeting things head on
• Working with change and uncertainty
• Knowing your head and heart for effective decision making
• Developing assertiveness and working with confidence
• Working with habitual thinking patterns – thoughts are not facts
• Positive skills for wellbeing at work

Attendance at other workshops in the series may be beneficial.