There are times when the demands of our life can feel like an assault, when there are just too many things to take care and to see to that we feel utterly overwhelmed. We might be trying to deal with relationship problems, or financial worries, or a new boss at work who wants us to step up—or we might simply be trying to cope with the intensity and uncertainty of the daily round.
At times like these, our own feelings of responsibility and guilt can drive us to try harder, to take on more and try to catch up until we feel confused and exhausted. Alternatively, our fears of not being able to cope can leave us wanting to crawl into a hole and stay there or run as far away as we can. If this continues for too long, we can end up feeling depressed and unwell.
This workshop will explore what leads to feeling overwhelmed and how it manifests in our lives. We’ll look at our habits and attitudes that lead to overwhelm and look at adopting new strategies to help us cope in a more sustainable way. Participants will receive a PDF workbook with exercises that they can use for working with their clients.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Colleagues will explore what leads to a feeling of being overwhelmed and why it is increasing in our society.
- Colleagues will have a chance to examine individual character traits that tend towards feeling overwhelmed.
- Participants will learn strategies to lessen the likelihood of overwhelm and to cope when it does occur.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- This workshop is for colleagues working with clients experiencing stress and anxiety.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- This workshop is planned in such a way that colleagues can look into their own habits and processes while gathering insights and strategies to support their clients suffering from overwhelm.
Course Content
Presenter
Maureen is the founding director of Awareness in Action, an organization dedicated supporting people to make sustainable wellbeing part of their lives—through developing clarity, connection and openness.
Drawing on more than thirty years of experience as a professional educator, senior manager in a non-profit organization, an entrepreneur and as an experienced practitioner of Buddhist meditation, she leads Awareness in Action workshops and training programs in the UK and Europe.
Her new book, The Stress Workbook is a groundbreaking effort that brings together the best of modern science and the wisdom of the world’s ancient contemplative traditions into a practical manual for thriving in today’s fast-paced world. Although born in London, UK love took Maureen to Amsterdam, The Netherlands where she lives with her husband.
