Workshop: Stress Competencies for Health Professionals

Updated knowledge on stress and stress prevention for professionals in healthcare

Purpose: Equip health professionals with the latest knowledge about stress and strategies for prevention

Target audience: Healthcare professionals and practitioners, including doctors, nurses, social and healthcare assistants (SOSU), psychologists, coaches, and body therapists

Format: Theoretical presentations with time for questions

Duration: 4–6 hours

Time & place: By arrangement

Description:

This workshop provides participants with an update on the latest scientific knowledge about stress: its psychophysiological mechanisms, links between chronic stress and somatic/psychiatric conditions, and effective stress management strategies.

The day includes:

• A brief overview of the history and current debates in stress research

• A new operational definition of stress

• Discussion of fight-flight-freeze responses and social stress strategies

• Neurobiological implications of acute and chronic stress activation

• Protective factors: resilience, meditation, breathing exercises, and other body-based methods

• Reflection on how knowledge of nervous system plasticity can support mental health across different populations

Topics covered:

• Fight-flight, freeze, and social response strategies

• The psychophysiological connection: HPA axis and autonomic nervous system

• Stress & emotions

• Causes of stress

• Social stress and psychological (in)security

• Individual variation in stress responses

• Stress-related diseases

• Neuroplasticity

• Protective factors and resilience

• Stress reduction and prevention

Instructors:

• Karen Johanne Pallesen – Neurobiologist (Cand. Scient.), Health Scientist (PhD), Adjunct Lecturer at Aarhus University

• Mette Bjerggaard – Medical Doctor (MD) and Psychotherapist

Price: From DKK 20,000 + VAT and travel expenses

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