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Living Life Lightly ~ 7 Simple Tools to Wipe Out Stress
This unique and powerful 3-hour program can be scheduled for your go-go-go work groups, for health professionals, for parents, or any staff/organization/association who would like to change their relationship to stress. The session is highly interactive and even fun as you discover your stress strategies, stress provokers and explore what you are like without stress. You will walk away with new understanding of the major source of stress and 7 simple, immediately-usable techniques to eliminate it
Do your people a big favor -- schedule this program for your organization.
SOME ALARMING INFORMATION:
It would startle most companies to have a computer readout weekly, showing the amount of work-time their people spent thinking and emoting over their problems. Then, if you had another computer readout showing the amount of negative hormones released into the body as a result of those thinking habits, and the health consequences, in the name of smart business, you would want your people to make some mental and emotional adjustments. Computers can’t generate all that data yet, so we don’t have to face the facts. Yet, the facts of stress find us - anyhow.”
(Doc Childre, Self Empowerment: The Heart Approach to Stress Management)
Consider this data:
- According to the AMA, 80% of all illness comes from stress.
- In Canada, at least $12 billion is spent annually on trackable stress-related costs. (Statistics Canada)
- Karoshi - dying at your desk - is considered a national health crises in Japan, affecting tens of thousands each year. (Time Magazine)
- Three 10-year studies concluded that emotional stress was more predictive of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease than smoking; people who were unable to effectively manage their stress had a 40% higher death rate than more emotionally managed individuals. (H. Eyesenck. Br. J. Med Psychol., 1998)
- A conservative average on how many times a business person must shift concepts, or shift their focus of attention is at least 7-8 times an hour. This constant changing of focus is a very real creator of stress. You may identify with a higher number.
- Organizational change causes productive work to drop from 4.8 hours per day to 1.2 hours per day, a loss of 75%. (US Dept of Labor)
And this is NOT a recent problem:
“People have been traumatized by the last 15 years of downsizing and the last few years of recession,” reports author and founder of worker-geared website, Work to Live, Joe Robinson. “I get flooded with e-mails from people and you get a sense of desperation. Everyone’s afraid they’ll be next.”
In high growth companies the stress is higher in the current economy; there is an unspoken, yet prevailing message of “if you can’t cut it, we can find several others who can.”
Into this context, ImprovWorks offers a 3-hour crash course of experiences, exercises and tools to eliminate the stress caused by the above. We will:
- Experience a challenging, yet fun, metaphor of the work environment (and your life?)
- Identify elements that can provoke stress
- List skills, behaviors and attitudes that operate when we are calm
- Focus on a major stress-creator - the mind
- Learn and practice 7 tools to shift quickly from stress to ease
- Use laughter as a stress-diffuser
Contact Sue at ImprovWorks to schedule “Living Life Lightly” for your group:
415-885-5678 or sue@improvworks.org
HOT NEWS!!! FALL 2008 - Sue will offer a Train-the-Trainer for this course in London, UK. Upon certification, trained facilitators will be eligible to license the program and deliver it to their clients anywhere.
Contact Sue for TTT outline and certification competencies.
