Course Session Booklets
Stress can significantly impact our concentration, which means you might forget a lot of what you learn in your Stress Control class. By reading each session’s booklet in advance, you will absorb and remember much more of the information.
For example, if your next class is session 3 (Controlling Your Thoughts), please try to read that booklet before attending.
Session 1: What is Stress?
This booklet introduces everything you'll learn in your first class, including what stress is, what causes it, and what keeps it going.
Session 2: Controlling Your Body
This booklet contains all the information you need to prepare for Session 2, where we explore how stress impacts our bodies—and how our bodies can influence stress.
Session 2 Supplement: Fight/ Flight
Fight or flight is a natural response built into all of us to protect against threats. By understanding how it works, we can better understand why stress impacts us the way it does.
Session 3: Controlling Your Thoughts
This booklet contains everything you need to prepare for Session 3, where we explore how thoughts both influence and are influenced by stress.
Session 3 Supplement: Interpretation
This supplement looks at why the way we interpret situations is crucial in controlling stress.
Session 3 Supplement: Big 5 Challenge
This supplement looks in detail at the first Big Challenge – ‘What are the chances?’
Session 4: Controlling Your Actions
This booklet contains everything you need to prepare for Session 4, where we examine how stress influences our actions—and how our actions, in turn, impact stress.
Session 4 Supplement: Vinay’s Story
This supplement explores how Vinay applies the skills he has been learning in the Stress Control course to face his fears and effectively manage a challenge in his life.
Session 5, Part 1: Controlling Panicky Feelings
This booklet contains all the information you need to prepare for Session 5, Part 1. We will explore the causes of panicky feelings and look at practical strategies to prevent them
Session 5, Part 2: Getting a Good Night’s Sleep
This booklet provides all the information you need to prepare for Session 5, Part 2. We’ll explore the crucial role of a good night’s sleep in managing daytime stress and share practical tips to improve sleep quality.
Session 6, Part 1: Boosting Your Wellbeing
This booklet provides all the information you need to prepare for Session 6, Part 1. Stress Control tackles stress from two angles: by learning effective techniques to manage stress while, at the same time, boosting wellbeing.
Session 6, Part 2: Controlling Your Future
This booklet provides all the information you need to prepare for Session 6, Part 2. We’ll tie everything we've learned together to help us become more resilient and better equipped to cope with whatever life throws at us.
