Even when we love what we do for a living, we still experience stress.  This is particularly true in education.  The good news, though, is that stress doesn’t have to be the enemy.  This workshop enhances adult SEL by guiding participants in a process of identifying the sources of their stress and creating a plan for adaptive stress management.  Stress is a fuel source that can empower us to be Life-Givers or Life-Suckers, and we alone make the decision.  By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to correctly answer the following:

• How is stress defined?
• What are the physiological symptoms and risks of stress?
• What is the relationship between stress and performance?
• In the context of the fight-or-flight model, in our best moments, how do we engage and disengage to be Life Givers?
• In the context of the fight or flight model, in our worst moments, how do we engage and disengage as Life-Suckers?
• Which four people make everyone’s Dream Team?