Each individual’s “content” is addressed solely within the four one-hour coaching sessions. The workshop is a necessary prerequisite for this activity because it provides the framework for working with each individual’s content. The coaching sessions need to be focused and productive during the valuable time provided.
For example, coaching session time will not be used by participants to ventilate gripes and complaints about the workplace or co-workers. Dr Lloyd will always assist participants to raise an issue and then to move quickly in to strategies for resolving stressors, particularly internal stressors.
Where "workplace issues" are presented by an individual into a coaching session, confidentiality will be protected. “Workplace issues” can be a genuine stressor in any individual case. Therefore “workplace issues” could be content in a coaching session if the discussion is focused on stress-reduction as a process of resolving stressors, particularly internal stressors.
The individual coaching sessions assume that our mental landscape only correlates with the world outside our heads. Our inertia and exterior worlds do not match perfectly and nor are they the same thing. Our failure to recognise this can get us stressed; our ability to understand this gives us the competitive edge when battling against life itself. So an exploration of one’s internal stressors is more than worth the effort. We all need to have this ongoing curiosity about ourselves for sustainable stress-reduction.
At the conclusion of the coaching sessions participants will have practical knowledge and use of the skills for stress-reduction. Participants will be encouraged to integrate the skills into their lives to continue on with their own ongoing d-Stress project.
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