Personal Resilience for Professional Competence: Active Approaches to Worry

Course Code
50125385

Course has already taken place

Provider
OD&PL

Tutor(s):
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, June 05, 2017, 14:00 to 16:00

Max Places:
30

Description
Pre-requisites: None

Pre-work: None

Overall aim of course:
This workshop offers an introduction to active approaches to dealing
with worry 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 explored the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours associated
with worrying
2. Have differentiated between productive and unproductive worrying
3. Have been introduced to some options and techniques to manage
worries more effectively
4. Have been introduced to personal action ideas

Indicative content: what the session will cover:
We all worry from time to time and it can become a habit that is hard to
break. The session will look at what worry is and why we do it and how
to avoid getting caught in unhelpful and unproductive cycles of worry.
For participants who habitually worry it will provide some ideas for
taking control of the habit and developing alternative ways of living
with stress. It will cover information and exercises about worry and
how to deal with it, effectiveness & efficiency, Personal action ideas.

Learning and teaching methods: An interactive workshop.

Tutor: Sally Rose; University of Leeds Staff Counselling service –
Service Manager and Staff Counsellor – Sally is a Registered
Psychotherapist, a member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy.

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
• 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.