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My Solution Wellbeing Durham has now developed a stress management course like no other. With the knowledge of counsellors and psychologists, we have created a course for employers to support their staff to a better wellbeing. My Solution Wellbeing Durham deliver this course face to face or online in Durham
Why is our course different? What we deliver is bespoke to your business and employees.

The content of the course: Stress Management for Employees:
Module 1: Understanding Stress
- Define Stress vs. Pressure: Clarify that a healthy level of pressure that keeps us motivated, but prolonged pressure turns into harmful distress.
- The Stress Response: Explain how the brain and body react to stressors (fight-or-flight response).
- Recognising Symptoms: Identify physical (fatigue, headaches), emotional (irritability, anxiety), and behavioural (withdrawal, drop in performance) early-warning signs.
Module 2: Identifying Workplace Triggers
- Common Pressures: Discuss organisational change, tight deadlines, heavy workloads, and interpersonal friction.
- Team Brainstorming: Allow participants to share specific pain points or bottlenecks they face in their daily roles.
- Workload Reassessment: Focus on identifying structural issues rather than just relying on temporary fixes.
Module 3: Practical Coping & Management Techniques
- Mindfulness & Relaxation: Introduce simple, accessible tools like deep-breathing exercises, body scans, and mindfulness hacks that can be used right at a desk.
- Time Management: Teach prioritisation methods, realistic scheduling, and how to break large projects into smaller tasks.
- Setting Boundaries: Practice the art of saying “no” to extra demands when overloaded, and establish clear cut-offs between work and personal time.
- Physical Well-being: Emphasise the role of regular movement, proper hydration, good nutrition, and adequate sleep in building resilience.
Module 4: Communication and Support
- Supportive Conversations: Provide tips on how employees can communicate openly with managers when things feel overwhelming.
- Signposting Resources: Introduce internal and external help options, such as an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
- Manager Responsibilities: If training leaders, include guidance on conducting stress risk assessments using frameworks.
Module 5: Action Planning & Wrap-Up
- Personal Stress Plan: Guide participants to fill out a template outlining their personal triggers, chosen coping mechanisms, and who they can turn to for support.
- Feedback and Evaluation: Conclude with a short feedback form to measure engagement and see what topics need further reinforcement.
Delivery Tips for Engagement

- Keep it Interactive: Avoid monotone lectures by incorporating pair work, group discussions, and short reflective breaks.
- Format Flexibility: Offer the course in digestible segments (such as a 2-hour interactive workshop or short modular e-learning elements).
- Follow-Up: Support lasting change through check-ins, peer mentoring, or a workplace wellbeing buddy system.
This Stress Management training aims to show how the root causes of stress can be dealt with successfully, how you can better cope with stressful situations, how employers can adapt the workplace to improve employee welfare and outlines how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming can be used to control the level of stress you experience.
The Stress Management in the workplace training programme delivers trademarked stress management tools. It provides measured results for you and your organisation.
Stress management in the workplace requires more than helpful tips. Changing economic times have us pulled in multiple directions. The pressures and demands between work and personal life are blurred. As a result, the consequences of stress in the workplace come from what is happening to each of us both on and off the job.
Benefits of the Stress Management Training For Employees
Strong company culture: Employees have a major role in a company’s culture.
Healthier employees operating under manageable levels of stress will be happier and more positive, helping to maintain a strong, healthy workplace culture that’s conducive to creativity and productivity.
Less sick days: Stress is one of the leading causes of absenteeism in the workplace. Not only will less stress in the workplace result in less “mental health days,” but it will also reduce the amount of sick days taken by employees due to a weakened immune system as a result of excessive stress.
Employee retention & talent acquisition: Employees who aren’t overly stressed are much more likely to stick around, and prospective employees are much more likely to work for an employer that promotes a low-stress work environment and takes the initiative to help keep their employees healthy.
It shows you care: Actively working to reduce stress through measures like stress management programs and policy shows that you care about your employees and their health and happiness and is great to show regulatory industry bodies.
Our professional stress management courses for business are bespoke and designed for your business needs. We will assess your organisation and identify how the course best suits your current needs.
We offer a half-day or full-day course.
Get in Touch
Contact us today to arrange a consultation or request a quote at 08000982806 or Email office@mysolutionwellbeing.com
Areas We Also Cover
We cover the whole of County Durham and Durham
- Chester-le-Street
- Bishop Auckland
- Spennymoor
- Newton Aycliffe
- Seaham
- Peterlee
- Consett
- Stanley
- Durham City Centre
