Program: Mastering Stress

A modular course with knowledge, practice, and concrete tools for stress management

Purpose: Equip employees with knowledge and practical methods to manage and prevent stress.

Target Audience: Employees

Participants: No upper limit

Duration: 3 × 2 hours including breaks

Format: Lecture, dialogue, reflection exercises, and body-based exercises

Time & Location: By arrangement

Description

Knowledge of the nervous system’s functions is an often overlooked key to success in workplace efforts to reduce stress and absenteeism. This knowledge creates clarity and motivation to take action toward positive change.

Gain exciting and relevant insights into brain and nervous system functions, enabling participants to understand how to regulate the body’s stress mechanisms to achieve greater well-being, stronger relationships, improved functionality, and better health.

Session 1 – Mind & Body (2h)

• Experience of stress and stress symptoms

• Stress mechanisms

• Stress-related illnesses

Session 1 provides participants with the latest scientific definitions of stress and concrete knowledge about stress’s strong impact on well-being, functionality, and health. It covers how stress responses are intertwined with emotions and individual experiences, and how chronic stress can lead to serious health consequences.

Session 2 – Psychological Safety (2h)

• Individual stress – Team stress

• Co-regulation

Session 2 explores how different states in the body’s stress systems affect our ability to express ourselves and interpret others’ communication, including how stress “spreads” and hinders constructive collaboration. Participants learn how to use this knowledge to improve the psychosocial work environment.

Session 3 – Nervous System Calibration (2h)

• Staying ahead of stress

• Creating new daily habits

Session 3 presents ways to calm the stress-activated body and regain mental clarity. Participants explore mechanisms and evidence behind well-known and newer methods that can be practiced and integrated into daily routines to build stress resilience and support overall well-being.

The course concludes with a summary of key points, followed by time for questions and feedback.

Instructor:

Karen Johanne Pallesen, neurobiologist, health researcher (PhD), instructor at Aarhus University PhD School in The Science of Stress and Resilience, lecturer at Folkeuniversitetet in Good Breathing: A Path to Mental Health and The Stressed Brain: From Stress to Resilience, columnist and debater.

Materials: Teaching materials including exercise guides

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