Living Well: Improving Wellbeing, Managing Stress and Building Resilience

What is Living Well?

Living Well is a five-week course that explores ways to help people thrive and grow in the busyness and stresses of life today.

During the course, we will look at some of the causes of stress and explore how we can improve our wellbeing and increase our ability to cope with stress by developing our:

• Physical Wellbeing,
• Mental Wellbeing,
• Emotional Wellbeing,
• Relational Wellbeing and
• Spiritual Wellbeing.

Why are we running this course?

A certain amount of pressure is useful and helps us to perform at our best. But too much pressure results in people being overstressed.

According to a recent survey, over a third (37%) of British residents feel stressed at least one full day a week. Government statistics show that the UK lose nearly 14 million working days per year to work-related stress, depression or anxiety

People are working longer hours, processing more information and sleeping less year-on-year. The stresses in our lives are not going away, they are increasing.

Mental health problems are growing across the country and many people are feeling anxious or stressed. The constant, rapid changes of these last few years have impacted our capacity to deal with stress, and many people feel overwhelmed by things that never used to be a problem.

What will be the format?

Over 5 weeks, a series of videos accompanied by discussions will take place at Kineton Primary School. Additionally, the course content will be accessible in a series of short videos (~ 5 videos per week) that can be viewed at any time and from anywhere. In addition to face-to-face discussions, an online chat group (on WhatsApp will be available to facilitate the sharing of thoughts and experiences.

Course handout materials will be shared weekly or can be downloaded in PDF format.

What will be covered?

Week 1 - 23rd September - Introduction & Physical Wellbeing

• Introduction to the Resilience Model
• Maintaining energy levels
• Making lasting change
• Growing in Physical Resiliencecause

Week 2 - 30th September - Mental Resilience

• Identity – how we view ourselves
• A key cause of stress and how to deal with it
• Coping – internal and external factors that can affect how we respond to/deal with situations
• Worry – techniques to help deal with worry and anxiety
• Feeding our mind

Week 3 - 7th October - Emotional Resilience

• Exploring our shadow side
• Letting go of baggage from the past
• Feeding our heart

Week 4 - 14th October - Relational Resilience

• Identifying the relationships that drain us and those that build us up
• Strategies for dealing with those that drain us/tear us down
• Finding and growing deeper relationships with people that build us up and support us

Week 5 - 21st October - Spiritual Resilience

• The ‘Higher Power’ - is there one, and how is it helpful?
• The difference between the ‘self’ and the soul
• How caring for our soul can radically change the way we view and deal with stress
• Feeding our soul

What sort of commitment is required?

As much as you decide. This is a relaxed, `no pressure’ course; we don't want to cause more stress in your life! You can stop at any stage of the course if you find that it is not meeting your needs or expectations.

The videos will be available online on demand, so you can watch them at a convenient time and catch up when it suits you.

How much will it cost?

The Living Well course is free

What if I have other questions?

If you have any further questions about the course, please do not hesitate to contact Barry on 01926 640248 or barry@edgehillcurches.org