life skills for stress, health & wellbeing

goals for the first evening to get an overview of the whole course & relate it to your own personal goals to introduce autogenic training, physical exercise, autonomous motivation, & skilful goal setting to be clear about the specific “home work” you want to focus on for the rest of the week

main components of the journey basic skills: exercise, diet, weight, alcohol, smoking, sleep meditation: autogenic training, applied relaxation, visualisation, mindfulness, compassion wellbeing: positive emotions, self-determination, happiness relationships, emotional intelligence, social networks

assumptions & rules of the journey skills learning active involvement support confidentiality

first four sessions of the course autogenic training physical exercise diet weight motivation self-determination goal setting stages of change

four aspects of helpful inner focus reducing negative states nourishing positive states exploring & processing encouraging mindfulness