Stress Management Training for the Clergy
High levels of satisfaction help clergy to cope with stress but there is often an unspoken cost for those who perform a difficult job under extreme pressures. Dealing with difficult situations with very little time or reward is the daily lot of anyone in ministry. We have worked with people in ministry to produce a course tailored to meeting the needs of anyone in ministry.
Who is it for?
Anyone who works in Christian ministry. Those who need to understand how to avoid burnout and manage the pressures of their profession. It would also be useful to anyone who manages others who may face high pressure.
What is it about?
This course helps you to prevent work pressures from ruining your life. You will learn ways of preventing stress and creating a happier more productive you.
Course Overview
- What is stress? Discover what stress is and what the experts tell us about what it can do to us.
- Where does it come from? Learn to spot the things that are causing stress in your life and how to overcome them.
- What can I do to prevent it? Uncover the hidden resources that can help you to prevent stress from ruling your life. Learn easy and effective ways of dealing with life's pressures.
- What can I do if I have it? Learn from the experts on how to manage pressure and stress effectively. Take a pro-active approach to life that will make you happier and more fulfilled.
- How to live with ever changing expectations.
- Dealing with difficult people and how to be assertive without being angry
- How to keep your vocation
- How God can help
- Simple time management techniques to make life better
- Resources to help. Take away powerful resources from the course that will enable you to reduce your stress from the day you take the course.
What will you get out of it?
- A clear understanding of stress and how to recognise it in yourself
- Effective ways to relax that can make a real difference to anyone under pressure
- Strategies for eliminating stress risk in your life
- Ways to be happier in life
- A new sense of vocation and why you became a minister in the first place and how to keep that feeling
- Remove the stress of having to deal with awkward people (both within your profession and from outside it)
- Practical time management skills that can make all the difference
- Ways to identify stress in others and how to help them manage their stress effectively
- Handbook to take away with lots of stress busting information
In-house Training
We can provide this course as an in-house stress management course. Contact us to find out how.