Professionals and personnel at all levels who would benefit from workplace stress reduction techniques; those whose effectiveness and efficiency would increase through stress reduction.

Course Length: 1 Day and 1½ Day courses available.
Courses can be held at the cooperate site or in the especially prepared Healthy Visions Wellness Center class room.

Participants will receive a complete “Transforming Stress Course Handbook” and “Total Relaxation” CD.

We originally developed this course for use by social workers serving the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy at Parris Island, S.C.

Job Stress
It is estimated that job stress costs Americans more than $300 billion annually due to diminished productivity, absenteeism, and employee turnover, medical, legal and insurance fees. It is also projected that 60 to 80% of all work related accidents are due to stress. Some of the most noted examples of this are the Three Mile Island nuclear incident and the Exxon Valdez oil disaster. They have cost billions in clean up efforts alone, to say nothing of the devastating environmental damage.

Transforming Stress
Before it becomes DISEASE

Stress is the underlying cause of 85 to 90% of visits to the doctor and includes Fibromyalgia, Headaches and other Chronic Pain syndromes. If this is so and the research shows it to be true, then why do we not recognize these stressors? How is it that we let stress create such problems in our lives? These questions are being studied more than ever before as is noted in the latest issues of Time, News Week, US News and World Report, National Geographic and a host of other weekly and monthly magazines including O, The Oprah Magazine.

This Is An Interactive Course That Teaches:
- How to recognize common stressors of life
- How to deal with the everyday physical stressors such as
- How to deal with organizational change
- How to recognize the signs of occupational burnout
- How to develop preventative measures and coping skills to lessen stress
- How toxic tongues can create toxic outcomes.
- How to integrate physical health, emotional health, and stress management
- How to let unavoidable stress work for you
- How to change what you can change
- How to use the Albert Einstein model to decrease stress and enhance creativity

If you are finger tapping, compulsively eating, biting your nails, having repetitive thoughts you might be stressed. If you have increased your smoking, drinking or drug use you might be stressed. If you are absent or being late for work then you might be stressed.

Prolonged stress can result in heart disease, food cravings, insomnia, depression, PMS, obesity arthritis, diabetes, and multiple other conditions that are a direct result of uncontrolled stress.

The most stressful jobs:
1. Executives
2. Middle Management
3. Nursing
4. Teaching
5. Social workers
6. Police and prison officers
7. Road transport
8. Other professionals

On an average workday, an estimated one million workers do not make it to work due to stress. “Health and Executive Magazine” claims 6.5 million sick days are being taken every year as a result of stress.

Stress affects blood pressure; sleep habits, nervousness, and confusion. Whenever our bodies are stressed – whether the stress is real or imagined – our brains respond as if it is real. Stress, by the way, can come in many forms: an impending deadline, an inability to complete work tasks, or even a verbal lashing from another person. The body’s response is the same regardless of what causes the stress.

This course uses conventional teaching method complemented with guided imagery, Creative Visualization, meditation, suggestion and Hypnotic techniques.