Beyond the Bubble Bath: Cognitive Approaches to Stress Management

The ABQLA College & Research Section warmly invites you to join us for a 90-minute workshop on stress management with a focus on cognitive approaches.

 

Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009

 

Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm

 

Location: Concordia University, Webster Library, room LB-211

 

RSVP: email Annie Murray (annie.murray@concordia.ca) by Friday, November 20 to confirm your place (seats are limited)

 

Cost: $5 for ABQLA members, $10 for non-ABQLA members

 

Librarians are busy people who engage in complex work. We often have competing priorities, too much information (not to mention e-mails!) to process, and seemingly not enough time in which to do all the work we wish to do. How best can we understand and manage stress in our daily lives?  Owen Moran will review stress and cover techniques for managing stress, including relaxation, but he will emphasize a cognitive approach to stress management. A cognitive approach to stress management refers to changing ineffective ways of thinking that contribute to stress and replacing them with thoughts that reduce stress.

 

Objectives of this workshop are to:

 

1.  Define stress and understand the difference between “good” and “bad” stress

2.  Review the signs, symptoms and causes of stress

3.  Review the health implications of unmanaged (or poorly managed) stress

4.  Review a 5-step guide to stress management

5.  Build relaxation techniques to manage stress

6.  List stress-provoking ways of thinking

7.  Build skills to restructure stress-provoking thoughts

8.  List factors that can make a person less vulnerable to stress

 

Our speaker: Owen Moran (MSc, RN) is a Health Promotion Specialist at Concordia University Health Services. He believes that a person’s health is their greatest resource and works with Concordia students, staff and faculty to help them achieve their optimal health potential.  He delivers workshops, provides personal health counseling, publishes a newsletter called Health Notes and uses a variety of other approaches to help members of the Concordia community move their health in a positive direction.