The four-hour Resilient Individual Workshop teaches you three key tools and techniques applicable in all challenging situations. You learn how to bounce back quickly from tough situations and even how to prepare for stressful situations. This helps you to think more clearly, right in the moment you need to.


What is stress?

Stress is a term used to describe the wear and tear the body experiences in reaction to everyday tensions and pressures. Change, illness, injury or career and lifestyle changes, are common causes of stress, however, it’s the pressure and tension we feel in response to the little everyday hassles - like peak hour traffic, waiting in line, or too many emails - that does the most damage.

Stress expresses itself as resistance, tension, strain or frustration that throws off our physiological and psychological equilibrium, keeping us out of sync- we just don’t feel ourselves. If our equilibrium is disturbed for too long, stress can become disabling.

Stress is often misunderstood. Many people have simply adapted to stress in an unhealthy way, resigned to thinking it’s ‘just the way it is’. Unfortunately unmanaged stress has created a pandemic of low-grade anxiety and depression.

Even small amounts of stress can stop you from thinking clearly, and will impact your ability to make good decisions.


How does stress affect health?

Stress affects people physically, mentally and emotionally. Too much stress can contribute to and agitate many health problems including heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, depression and sleep disorders. Too much stress can contribute to or agitate many health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, depression and sleep disorders.


What can I do about it?

The first step is to understand how stress works. It’s not the events or situations that do the harm; it’s how you respond to those events. More precisely, it’s how you feel about them that determines whether you become stressed or not.

Emotions, or feelings, have a powerful impact on the human body. Emotions like frustration, insecurity and depressing feelings are stressful and inhibit optimal health. Positive emotions like appreciation and care not only feel good, they promote health, performance and well being.