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A Solution to Stress and Burnout

Stress Management and Resiliency Training

Effective, Evidence-Based Techniques to Improve Resiliency and Cope with Challenges

Chronic stress is common — but not normal!

Does it sometimes feel like everyone around you is stressed? Whether it’s from work, school, family life, or anything else, Canadians have never been more stressed. Studies show that nearly half of Canadians report feeling ‘highly stressed’ at least once a week.

Stress and burnout aren’t just unpleasant or inconvenient. They’re bad for you! Did you know that mental and emotional stress may cause physical symptoms, from digestive issues to heart disease? Chronic stress reduces productivity and impacts relationships.

Facts About Stress

Stress increases the risk of developing mood and anxiety disorders
Chronic stress promotes poor dietary habits and can contribute to heart disease
Stress diminishes empathy, positive emotions, and libido, negatively impacting relationships
Research consistently shows that chronic stress is a major contributor to addictions issues

Chronic Stress Screening

Curious how stress might be impacting your life? Try our free 8-question chronic stress screening quiz!

Is stress negatively affecting your life?

You can break the cycle.

Stress Management and Resiliency Training is an 8-week, evidence-based program certified by UBCO’s smartUBC Curriculum and Certification Committee. Through 20 hours of hands-on instruction and coaching, you’ll learn strategies and tools that will help you cope with any kind of stress. This program will help you:

Understand and regulate your emotional response to stress
Create effective strategies for stressful situations
Enhance concentration, impulse control, planning, and decision-making
Develop healthy habits
Learn new resiliency techniques

The smartUBC mindfulness workshop is life changing. This 8 week workshop was so transformational to me at a time when I felt overwhelmed and stuck in a negative thought life. There is hope! Learning to meditate and be present to life has greatly freed my thought life and I feel a weight has been lifted. I feel lighter and happier as a result!

I can honestly say the SMART program has made an immediate difference in my life. I am much more aware of my emotions and how I express them, I also now understand the science behind stress and have tools that allow me to be more at peace as I navigate challenges in my life, both personal and professional.

Iwona led me to develop a new perspective of my life with tools to respond to life’s challenges in a mindful, compassionate and patient way. Walking through the world mindfully, guided by the seven attitudes of mindfulness resulted in building and strengthening relationship with myself and those in my life. I now treat myself with gentleness, patience, and kindness which ripples out to all aspects of my life and the people I have the privilege of sharing my life with.

Having completed the program last year, I can wholeheartedly recommend smartUBC to anyone who feels challenged by the pressures of modern life and is keen to learn sustainable and supportive practices that will enhance their overall sense of well being and bring new perspective to all areas of life.

After taking the 8-week smartUBC course, I'm certain that consistent application of mindfulness techniques is the gateway to a more meaningful, fulfilling and happy life. Through unbelievably grounded, skilled, and warm instruction, Iwona led by example and every week delivered a message that resonated powerfully with me. If you are seeking a real change, a different path for a better way of living life, I wholeheartedly recommend the course and what she has to offer.

I want you to know that your 8- week mindfulness program that I took in 2018 transformed my life and I'm now living the best life ever! Thank you for reaching out to me when you did. It was during the hardest time in my life and now, 2 years later, I am living the life that I only dreamed of before. Mindfulness and meditation has taught me how to be present in this world and follow a unique path that is not forced, but, rather, provided for me. I have been wanting to write you for a while now so this comes with much gratitude.

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Register for four seats and receive the fourth registration free ($325 value)!

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