About this Online Workshop

Learn to understand and reduce anxiety to support yourself, your staff, and/or your clients as we continue to live in uncertain times. This interactive workshop will give you the understanding and skills you need to help yourself, staff and clients move forward with more focus and manage their anxious minds.

The second part of this workshop will teach you about the causes and types of depression, the signs and symptoms of depression, and the most up-to-date techniques currently used to intercept depression’s progression. The workshop will also highlight the approaches used to support individuals in coping with and overcoming their depression symptoms and prevent future depressive episodes. 

NOTE: This is an interactive, virtual workshop, which is different from a webinar. Participants will be expected to participate through voice and video, and to engage with each other and the facilitator in large and small group discussions, to learn from each other and practice skill development.

Learning Objectives

• Understanding the pathways of anxiety in the brain
• The root of anxiety: understanding the amygdala
• How the cortex creates anxiety
• Taking control of your anxiety
• Reaping the benefits of relaxation
• Understanding anxiety triggers
• The importance of exercise, nutrition, and sleep for anxiety reduction
• Restructuring thought patterns that cause anxiety
• Identifying and learning the signs, symptoms, causes and types of depression
• Learning the cognitive and lifestyle changes necessary to combat depression
• Breaking the procrastination-depression connection
• Recognizing depressive thinking and overcoming depressive thoughts
• Albert Ellis‘s ABCDE Method for overcoming depression
• Overcoming hopelessness thinking
• Coping with depressive symptoms
• Attending to anxieties
• Confronting negative emotions
• Behavioural methods to feel good again
• Putting an end to depression planning

Who Should Attend?

Any staff or manager in a human, social, or community services organization.

Format and Duration

Four, three-hour workshops over the course of two weeks.