Workshop: Strengthen Your Well-Being – Before Stress Takes Hold

Recent research shows that stress affects far more than well-being. It reduces mental clarity, collaboration, energy, relationships, and health, and over time can lead to sick leave. When employees and leaders understand how stress operates in the nervous system, a foundation is laid for preventing the kind of stress that makes us “pull the plug.”

This full-day workshop translates the latest stress research into practical tools that can be applied both in high-pressure situations and to build a more stress-resilient baseline.

Purpose: To provide participants with research-based knowledge and practical methods to relieve and prevent unhealthy stress, and to promote well-being in everyday life.

Duration: 4–6 hours

Format: Lecture, dialogue, and exercises in an engaging format

Time & Place: By arrangement

What participants will gain:

Participants will acquire:

• Insight into how stress arises in the nervous system and affects behavior, relationships, and health

• Understanding of early warning signs and how stress “takes hold”

• Concrete regulation methods that work both acutely and preventively

• Stronger ability to create calm, energy, and improved collaboration

• A shared language about stress that strengthens dialogue, culture, and workplace environment

• Motivation and hope for realistic and sustainable well-being

• Knowledge and tools applicable at all organizational levels—employees, leaders, HR, union/employee reps, and professionals

Workshop in practice:

Throughout the day, participants alternate between:

• Presentation of research-based knowledge

• Reflection and dialogue

• Practical exercises that restore nervous system balance

• Application to workplace contexts

Participants learn techniques that help immediately and strengthen resilience over time.

Participant Feedback:

• “The biological approach to stress was eye-opening, and Karen Johanne Pallesen conveyed knowledge I had never received before.”

• “The balance between brain and body through lectures and exercises clarified the point: Balance creates calm.”

• “As a psychologist, I see the neurobiological perspective as an important supplement to the traditional psychological understanding.”

• “The impressive amount of research was made accessible—with humor even.”

• “The day provided exactly the right connection between biology and psychology.”

• “I gained tools I could use immediately.”

• “It was liberating to receive facts that could be measured, weighed, and compared. I understood stress on a new level.”

Instructor:

Karen Johanne Pallesen
Neurobiologist (Cand.scient.) • Health Scientist (PhD)
Lecturer in The Science of Stress and Resilience at Aarhus University PhD School
Columnist and communicator on stress, well-being, and workplace health

Read the column on stress prevention in the workplace.

Questions & Booking: info@synergia.dk / +45 2679 7407