Stress Resilience: How to be Successful at Brookes
Combining academic performance with stress management.
Coming to University represents a period of huge change – in geographic location, academic expectations, possibly in culture & language, and possibly also at a developmental stage in your life;
leaving home.
This change also happens when we are without our normal support structures of family and friends.
Any change, or dealing with unfamiliar situations, brings an increase in anxiety or stress as a normal adaptive reaction to meet the challenges of the new situation.
This temporary or acute stress can be useful to help meet this challenge or manage the change, e.g. to make sure you don’t get lost, and to raise your game to manage presentations, exams, or placements. But too much stress or anxiety, or over a
prolonged period, can be overwhelming and sabotage personal well-being & academic performance.
In this talk, we will consider:
- What makes us stressed and why, and how stress can seriously and negatively impact on your academic performance and ultimate success.
- Identify a stress management programme: To maintain an efficient and effective academic study programme and a healthy and positive mental wellbeing.
Stress management is an intrinsic component to your academic studies – how you learn, think creatively, interact and perform successfully at University.
This workshop is run once per semester. When the date has been arranged the details will be announced by email and through social media.