LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Gain a better sense of the stress response system.

  • Understanding the physiological changes during stress.

  • Recognizing how stress effects physical and mental health

  • Discovering the links to stress and anxiety, depression, and suicide.

  • Recognizing the signs of suicidal ideation

  • Suicide awareness

  • Suicide prevention techniques

  • Cortex based stress management

  • Amygdala based stress management

  • Basic understanding of CBT therapy

  • Practical applications for CBT

  • Stress reduction through breath work

  • Mindfulness techniques to reduce stress

  • The relationship between exercise and stress.

  • Learning a sense of control over some aspects of stress.

  • Learning the ability to control what you can and accepting what you can't control.