Stress: Take Charge!

THINK STRESS IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD?THINK AGAIN!

Want to increase your stress hardiness, enhance your performance, ramp up your resilience...

Stress: Take Charge! ...a health promotion program of the Canadian Forces may be for you!! Stress: Take Charge! offers a skill based and effective approach to managing stress. Stress: Take Charge! is a stress management program designed and tested specifically for the Canadian Military as part of Strengthening the Forces, to improve the health and well being of the serving member. Stress: Take Charge! is a self-directed approach to stress management through self-awareness, behaviour change and skill building. It will support participants in their identification of the strategies that they already use and those that they will begin to implement in order to optimize their stress hardiness. Stress management can be a force multiplier!

Stress management is a daily balancing act that has an impact on physical and mental well being.

The Stress: Take Charge! program consists of eight modules of 2.5 hours each; in which participants will:

• Understand the stress reaction in the military context and its links to hardiness.
   
• Assess their level of stress using StressMap®
   
• Choose and practise specific skills that they will use to increase performance and decrease stress.
   
• Benefit from regular practise of the relaxation response.

Participants will receive workbooks and be asked to complete exercises.

Stress: Take Charge! has been developed by CF Health Services Group Headquarters, Directorate of Force Health Protection as part of Strengthening the Forces.

Our programs are open to all military members and their families
(Must be over 18 yrs),
as well as DND/NPF employees.