Stress is a natural response, but when it becomes constant it can drain energy, cloud thinking and wear down wellbeing. This practical two-session course helps you understand how stress works and gives you simple mindfulness-based tools to work with it more effectively.
You’ll explore how stress shows up in body, mind and emotions, learn grounding practices to settle your nervous system, and develop micro-tools you can use in everyday life. With guided practice throughout, the course helps you build a personal toolkit for responding with more calm, clarity and self-compassion.
Face to face
Session 1: Understanding and Grounding
- How stress shows up in your body, emotions, and thoughts
- Understanding fight, flight, and freeze responses
- Why your nervous system gets stuck in overdrive
- Grounding practice: using your body and senses for stability
- How resistance amplifies stress
- Introduction to letting be and acceptance
Session 2: Responding with Clarity
- Micro-mindfulness tools for stress in the moment
- The breath-long pause: your first response to stress
- Acceptance as energy conservation
- Body relaxation practice
- Self-compassion for stressful moments
- Building your personal stress toolkit
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Recognise how stress shows up in their body, emotions, and thoughts
- Understand the fight, flight, and freeze responses and why they get triggered
- Use grounding practices to bring themselves back to calm
- Recognise how resistance to stress amplifies it
- Apply the breath-long pause to respond rather than react
- Use micro-mindfulness tools for stress in the moment
- Practise self-compassion during stressful times
- Build a personal toolkit for managing stress in daily life
- "The Wise Heart" by Jack Kornfield
- "Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening" by Joseph Goldstein
- "Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself" by Kristin Neff
