Mental Wellness: Stress, Mindfulness & Resilience

A scientific and practical approach.

What you'll learn
Understand the different types of stress and their effects on the body
Be able to use techniques such as mindfulness practice to manage stress
Know the steps to take to increase their resilience and to overcome stress
Be able to implement an action plan to make changes in their lifestyle to increase resilience and regulate stress
Requirements
Be conversant in the use of English language equivalent to the level of a GCSE education
Description
In this course, you will be learning about these 3 concepts: Stress, Mindfulness and Resilience, from both scientific and practical perspectives. Once you understand these 3 concepts well, you will be able to apply them meaningfully to your life so that they can support you whenever you are facing stress.Mindfulness for stress reduction and regulation is a powerful technique. Its use is not limited to stress reduction, but it can be the foundation for installing good, positive habits including that of resilience.More importantly, once you understand resilience, nurturing your resilience is the best protection from the harmful effects of stress. Learn what is resilience, understand what resources can support it, and the kind of behaviours that will nurture it. Besides being positive, what are the kind of habits and attitudes that will encourage you to be resilient. What kind of behaviours does resilience support, so that you can recognize resilience in yourself and in those around you.By the end of this course, you will attain the following:· Learn how stress affect your body and your health· Learn to make use of mindfulness practice and other aids to regulate stress level· How resilience can make a difference to the way you cope with stress· The qualities that constitute resilience· Steps you can take to help yourself to be more resilient· Behaviours that indicate a person is indeed resilient· Develop an action plan that is resilient and aligned with your life objectives

Overview

Section 1: Part 1 : A Practical Understanding of Stress

Lecture 1 Opening video

Lecture 2 1.1 Introduction

Lecture 3 1.2 Updated concept of stress

Lecture 4 1.3 The stress response

Lecture 5 1.4 Effect of stress

Section 2: Part 2: Practice of Mindfulness

Lecture 6 2.1 Introduction

Lecture 7 2.2 Practice of mindfulness and its effects

Lecture 8 2.3 Benefits of mindfulness

Lecture 9 2.4 Neuroscience of mindfulness

Section 3: Part 3: Resilience

Lecture 10 3.1 Introduction

Lecture 11 3.2 Resilience in traumatic stress

Lecture 12 3.3 Post-trauma growth

Section 4: Part 4: Conclusion

Lecture 13 Your post-action plan

Lecture 14 Closing video

For counsellors and coaches who wants an indepth knowledge of stress to help their clients better,For individuals who wish to help themselves or someone they know who have challenges with managing stress in their lives