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What is stress?
The first step in Zooming-Out on stress is to reflect on the very nature of stress itself. What is it? As always, a dictionary comes in handy.
But this it turns out that things are not so simple and that there is a better and more empowering definition that acknowledges the crucial and impactful role that perspective plays in stress.
Chronic Stress & Burnout
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What stresses you?
Stress audit…
Stress and perspective
Book: McGonigal book
Pressure & Performance
Inverted U
Comfort Zone – Stretch Zone – Panic Zone
Zoom-Out on Events
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TOOL: Stress Bucket
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TOOL: Breathe
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“Anxiety is excitement without breath”
Fritz Perls, Founder of Gestalt Therapy
TOOL: Zoom-Out Catch Phrase
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- REVIEW HOMEWORK: Stress audit review
- ZO Catch Phrase explained
- EX + SET HOMEWORK: ZO Catch Phrases (using stress patterns from audit)
TOOL: Next Positive Action
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- NPA introduced – background and theory
- MY EXAMPLES: ….
- EXERCISE: Your own – refer back to stress audit – specific examples
- SET HOMEWORK
TOOL: The Pledge
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“Discretionary stress”
Perspective on events
Perspective on stress itself
Growth mindset
- Proactivity and Zoom-Out – take responsibility for your perspectives & responses to events
- The ZO Pledge: Protecting yourself from the ill-effects of stress and your own unhealthy responses to stress
- My story – laying on the sofa after divorce court
- SET HOMEWORK:
- IMPLEMENT: The Pledge – keep a journal & refine stress audit?
- READ: the poem: “Invictus” (“unconquerable” or “undefeated” in Latin) – by William Ernest Henley