Personal Resilience for Professional Competence: Working with stress and emotion

Course Code
50117701

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)
Monday, April 25, 2016, 14:00 to 16:00

Max Places:
30

Description
Pre-requisites: None

Pre-work requirements: None

Overall aim of course:
The session aims to provide information and resources for working within
a personal workable range of stress and with emotional balance. This is
offered as a part of Personal Resilience for Professional Competence
programme of workshops.

Intended outcomes and benefits from attending:
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Have been introduced to models for healthy effective ranges of
stress and emotional balance.
2. Understand the importance and value of managing their own stress
levels and emotional balance, and the potential risks of not doing so.
3. Be able to recognise signs of stress and emotional imbalance in
themselves and others.
4. Consider ways to improve well-being, confidence, achievement,
engagement and effectiveness.
5. Considered a range of ideas for restoring and maintaining balance
and working within a healthy sustainable range.

Indicative content: what the session will cover:
Participants will be given a chance to explore the personal and
professional benefits of a workable range of stress, and of emotional
balance for creativity and competent self-regulation. An opportunity to
apply the models to better understand your experience of stress and
emotions, to develop self-awareness to identify your warning signs of
stress and emotional imbalance, and consider a number of approaches to
managing yourself and improving your well-being, confidence, achievement
and effectiveness. This workshop will help you develop your competence
for engaging with your colleagues.

Learning and teaching methods: Mixture of presented material and group
interaction.

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
• 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
• Understanding and managing anxiety and panic
• 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.