Wednesday 7 May | 10am to 11.30am | Online via Zoom
Ticket prices: Members £27 | Non-members £43
Learn to reduce and manage stress, as well as change the way you think about it. When stress is not avoidable, or outside of your control, trick your brain into seeing this as a positive experience and allow your adrenaline to drive you to success. Understand the stress that colleagues, employees and volunteers face and discover how to manage it effectively.
Course Highlights
✔ Identify common causes of stress within the workplace.
✔ Being able to recognise indicators that someone might be struggling with stress and learning the signs and symptoms.
✔ Learn ways of coping with and managing stress.
✔ Learn how environmental and cultural changes within the workplace can reduce and prevent workplace stress.
✔ Teach you how to build an action plan that you can tailor and develop to your unique stressors within your workplace.
This event will cover:
- Understanding what stress is and what function it serves
- Reflection on how stress impacts you uniquely
- Reflect on common stressors related to your work as a volunteer manager
- Introduction to (and skills practice of) stress management strategies and when to use them as a volunteer manager:
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- breathing techniques
- mindfulness
- reframing (including reframing stress itself)
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- Resources to encourage self-reflection and develop an action plan
About the trainer
Hayley Broughton-McKinna is a qualified Associate Psychological Practitioner with over 10 years of professional experience in mental health, working across all stages of life. Having held roles within the NHS, the criminal justice system, and both non-profit and private sectors, Hayley brings a wealth of expertise and a unique perspective. She uncovers the “why” behind mental health conditions while equipping employees and business leaders with practical strategies and tools to stay resilient and perform at their best.
About the training provider
PMAC is a leading provider of workplace mental health and wellbeing training. They believe that employees in all industries are entitled to training that will give them the tools they need to manage their own health and wellbeing, and allow them to be the best, most productive version of themselves.
PMAC incorporates years of experience, extensive psychological know-how and mental health knowledge, with engaging activities during our training sessions, to ensure all staff get the most out of their time with us. PMAC endeavour to ensure that the knowledge and skills that you take away with you will not only be applicable to the workplace, but will be transferrable.
AVM Members’ Discount
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