Presented by Optimal Health Hub, this four-week course is designed to provide education and strategies for coping with stress and managing anxiety. It does this by firstly providing insights into how the body and mind react to stress and how anxiety becomes a dominating experience. Putting this knowledge into practical use, the course demonstrates strategies designed to reduce stress and lessen anxiety. To further help with combating stress and anxiety, the course draws a distinction between short-term stress and longer-term anxiety and demonstrates how short-term strategies can work with long-term strategies to create a calmness that allows a higher level of functioning.

The course content is based on extensive research in neurobiology, psychology, and psychotherapy. It contains a presentation with easy-to-understand content, videos, practical demonstrations, and time for discussion. The aim of the course is to arm you with a toolkit for addressing stress and anxiety while showing you pathways for continual development.

Course Outline

Week 1 – What is Stress and Anxiety?

In this week an overview of stress and anxiety is provided showing the physiological and mental processes involved and how it can impact our body and mental processes.

Week 2 – Stress and the Body

We dive deeper into stress and anxiety as it effects our body and discover how body processes can be used to calm the body and make it more stress resilient.

Week 3 – Creating Mindfulness

In this week we show how the creation of mindfulness allows a movement away from the struggle with stress and anxiety and towards pursuing activities that are aligned with what we want to do in our lives and that give us a sense of life satisfaction and enjoyment of life.

Week 4 – Road to Calmness

In the final week we look at a case study and the dynamics for creating a lasting sense of calmness while providing purpose and meaning in our lives.