Traditional Stress Coaching has its uses but it clearly doesn’t go deep enough. At least 80% of British workers still say they suffer moderate to extreme stress at work. It’s time for a new approach to workplace stress.
A new approach to Stress and Resilience Coaching
It isn’t what happens to you in life that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you that matters.
The majority of Stress Coaching focuses on reducing the amount of stress an individual faces. It can help people become better at saying no, setting boundaries, understanding their circle of control and so on. But it does little to alter the physiological changes that stress causes to that individual.
But it doesn’t teach you how to relax and stay relaxed under pressure. The more relaxed you are the more resilient to stress you become.
Why are staff so stressed?
There are so many reasons why staff are becoming increasingly stressed at work. These can include:
- Poor relationships with colleagues and managers
- Unrealistic deadlines and demands
- Lack of support and control your working environment
- An aggressive and unbalanced work culture
- Poor management practices
- The lack of promotional opportunities
- Constant change at work
- Team conflict
- Feeling bored due to repetitive work
- Discrimination
But whatever the causes are the results are the same. Staff that struggle to cope with the demands placed upon them.
Before we get to the answer we need to understand one thing.
Stress leads to tension
Stress in our lives causes us to tense up without realising it. Over time that tension builds up in our bodies and eventually causes a huge range of physical and mental health conditions. It is that tension, not the stress that is preventing staff from being able to deal with the pressures of their job.
The answer lies in teaching your staff a set of skills to control their physical tension levels, increase their energy and improve their mental focus.
For the last 25 years I have been teaching people to do exactly that. I am a tai chi and kung fu master and have developed a simple set of principles that anyone can learn. Over the last 25 years I have taught hundreds of people of all ages from school children to pensioners the skills of how to physically relax. Now I also offer effective stress coaching in Berkshire to organisations of all sizes.
The more physically relaxed you are the more stress you can cope with. It’s as simple as that.
I have developed a fun, hands-on training program for organisations of all sizes in Berkshire. The training can be delivered in two or preferably three hours and will teach you and your staff the following:
- The real meaning of stress and the tension paradox – something you never realised before but makes so much sense.
- Why humans suffer with stress related conditions more than any animal
- How to stand or sit so that physical or emotional pressures can’t move you – this is an amazing hands-on exercise that is often cited as the best part of the course.
- Relax your physical structure and make it pressure-proof.
- Drop the tension out of your shoulders and keep it out.
- How to breathe to keep you healthy and improve your stamina.
- Gain more control over your emotional states and energy levels – this is worth the cost of the course on its own.
- The two modes of your conscious mind and how to switch between them to keep your sanity intact.
- Train your mind for razor sharp focus or to expand and take in the bigger picture.
- and much more.
Learn skills that will last for the rest of your life.
Our training comes from the battlefields of ancient China when warriors would have to keep control of their mind, body and breathing while under life or death combat. It worked for them and it works just as well for the lesser yet more chronic stresses we face today.
