Stress under control - Crossing The Barriers

A Synopsis of the workshop activities „Stress under control ”

Aims:
Making the knowledge on the esence of stress deeper  
Developing the abilities of reducing stress and preventing its harmful for health effects.   
Creating active and reliable attitude to own health.
Forms-group work
Methods- workshops, a brainstorm, a show, practical exercises
Didactic aids- lefleats, labels, foam mats, foam figurines, a string, buckles
The course of activities:
Exercises on the foam mats:
Respiratory exercises „ A frog”
Relaxing exercises- „ A lazy eight”
Welcoming- an exercise „ Open the door”
Definition of the stress- presenting by a conducting person.
What's this stress?  
When do we expire stress?
Can stress be useful and when?
What is it depend on if we notice a given situation as stressful?
Students work in a group with the method „ a brainstorm” come to answers the given questions.
How to cope with stress? Discussing on ways of coping with stress. Emphasizing the comnnections between physical and psyhical state as well the influence stress on our health.
The practical exercises, relaxing our muscles and decrising the level of stress:
We stand with our legs astride, relaxing all muscles, next we tense muscles one by one from feet, calves, through tights, buttocks, stomach, shoulders, face. We close eyes, get some air  and stop the breathing, we keep this „tensed position” couting in our mind until five and rapidly we relax all muscles, releasing air.
Massage of shoulders with a special concerning of the „stress point”. Students join themselves in pairs and massage the shoulders each other.
The individual massage with a towel.
„Shout out your stress” students stand in a circle and at the same time all shout with all their strength  AAAAAA!!
„Destroy your stress”- students crumple „ the sheet of paper of safety” or a newspaper and throw towards foam figurines.  
Discussing the led activities and finishing them.  We stand in a circle keeping our hands- „ a Spark”
Activities led by a psychologist Anna Bogus and an educator Elżbieta Kucharska.