Stress Management Exercise: Shared Solutions

Stress Management Exercise: Shared Solutions


Purpose

This uplifting exercise can be used as part of a stress management course or any other training session where delegates are more likely to be stressed or under pressure. The activity encourages a proactive approach to problem solving and therefore can effectively reduce stress levels.

Objective

Participants to come up with ways to eliminate or reduce main sources of stress in their personal or professional lives.

What You Need

  • Three small cards for each participant
  • Pens

Setup

  • Give each participant 3 cards and a pen.
  • Explain to delegates that they can write down 1 major cause of stress in their lives on each card. Allocate 2 minutes for this part of activity.
  • Allocate 5 minutes for delegates to come up with 3 possible solutions for each stress cause.
  • At the end of the activity ask for volunteers who want to share their problems and solutions.
  • Follow with a discussion.

Timing

Explaining the Test: 5 minutes.

Activity: 15 minutes

Discussion

What did you learn from each other? Did you have common causes of stress with others? How others dealt with them?

 

 


Comments

Jason Gooderham

By Jason Gooderham @ Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:02 PM



This is really good as too many be people in the workplace, are really streesed out which effects morale, workrate and general happeniness


thanks



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