Report on Worldwide Stress Management Seminar
26 February 2008
With constant bombardment from emails, phone calls, meetings, deadlines, targets and social networking sites, as well as doing your job to fit in to a 9 – 5 day, how people deal with stress at work is becoming an even more important issue.
But how do you cope with the demands of modern life? Do you knock back a few pints or a bottle of wine after work, reach for the cigarettes or delve into the chocolate box?
At a seminar held on 21 February, members of the Cornwall business community learnt about the psychological reasons behind stress, as well as dietary tips on how to combat it.
Organised by award-winning independent financial advisers, Worldwide Financial Planning, as part of its Business Seminar series, the event at the Alverton Manor hotel also raised £1,330 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
It is thought that 70 per cent of visits to the doctor are attributed to stress, whilst according to the Health and Safety Executive, it is responsible for 85 per cent of serious illness.
The organisation carried out research about work-related stress, and found that stress, anxiety or depression accounts for an estimated 13.8 million lost working days in Britain.
And one of the biggest causes of friction is how people communicate with each other.
Health psychologist John Perry, who returned to Cornwall for his second Worldwide presentation, explained how the different communication styles of people could be dealt with by using neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).
“NLP is based on the idea that people are visual, auditory or kinaesthetic, in that their communication is based on sight, sound or touch,” said John.
“A visual person is likely to be animated, spontaneous, a fast talker and use lots of gestures as they communicate.
“Meanwhile a kinaesthetic person will make measured decisions, tends to speak more slowly and quietly and “feel” their way through communication.
“If someone is moving at a fast pace and needs action, while another person needs to feel comfortable, then conflict can occur.
“Its about how we deal with it.”
Louise Routledge, who runs her own company, Luminate Marketing, in Truro, was one of the delegates.
She has tried a number of stress management techniques, from hypnotherapy and reflexology to psychology of vision, floatation tanks and even netball.
She said: “As a self-employed person my life can feel highly pressured and I constantly have a million things buzzing around in my mind.
“I find it very difficult to switch off and stop obsessing about what more I could do to finish my work better, but after a certain amount of time I have had to take measures to ensure I’m striking a balance between work life and social life.
“I found the seminar with Worldwide fascinating and feel that every person in the room seemed to be silently nodding with all the different stress related issues thrown out by the speakers on the day.
“John seemed to relate with the room and went into a astounding level of detail about why we are who we are without making any single person feel lost or like they were a social outcast.”
“I’m very glad I attended this brilliantly organised event and would challenge anyone to say they didn’t change or at least talk about changing one thing in their life following the talks.”
Download the hand outs for this seminar
For receive email updates on Worldwide’s Business Seminar series, contact Jess Bartlett at Worldwide Financial Planning on 01208 816667 or email jbartlett@wwfp.net
With constant bombardment from emails, phone calls, meetings, deadlines, targets and social networking sites, as well as doing your job to fit in to a 9 – 5 day, how people deal with stress at work is becoming an even more important issue.
But how do you cope with the demands of modern life? Do you knock back a few pints or a bottle of wine after work, reach for the cigarettes or delve into the chocolate box?
At a seminar held on 21 February, members of the Cornwall business community learnt about the psychological reasons behind stress, as well as dietary tips on how to combat it.
Organised by award-winning independent financial advisers, Worldwide Financial Planning, as part of its Business Seminar series, the event at the Alverton Manor hotel also raised £1,330 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
It is thought that 70 per cent of visits to the doctor are attributed to stress, whilst according to the Health and Safety Executive, it is responsible for 85 per cent of serious illness.
The organisation carried out research about work-related stress, and found that stress, anxiety or depression accounts for an estimated 13.8 million lost working days in Britain.
And one of the biggest causes of friction is how people communicate with each other.
Health psychologist John Perry, who returned to Cornwall for his second Worldwide presentation, explained how the different communication styles of people could be dealt with by using neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).
“NLP is based on the idea that people are visual, auditory or kinaesthetic, in that their communication is based on sight, sound or touch,” said John.
“A visual person is likely to be animated, spontaneous, a fast talker and use lots of gestures as they communicate.
“Meanwhile a kinaesthetic person will make measured decisions, tends to speak more slowly and quietly and “feel” their way through communication.
“If someone is moving at a fast pace and needs action, while another person needs to feel comfortable, then conflict can occur.
“Its about how we deal with it.”
Louise Routledge, who runs her own company, Luminate Marketing, in Truro, was one of the delegates.
She has tried a number of stress management techniques, from hypnotherapy and reflexology to psychology of vision, floatation tanks and even netball.
She said: “As a self-employed person my life can feel highly pressured and I constantly have a million things buzzing around in my mind.
“I find it very difficult to switch off and stop obsessing about what more I could do to finish my work better, but after a certain amount of time I have had to take measures to ensure I’m striking a balance between work life and social life.
“I found the seminar with Worldwide fascinating and feel that every person in the room seemed to be silently nodding with all the different stress related issues thrown out by the speakers on the day.
“John seemed to relate with the room and went into a astounding level of detail about why we are who we are without making any single person feel lost or like they were a social outcast.”
“I’m very glad I attended this brilliantly organised event and would challenge anyone to say they didn’t change or at least talk about changing one thing in their life following the talks.”
Download the hand outs for this seminar
For receive email updates on Worldwide’s Business Seminar series, contact Jess Bartlett at Worldwide Financial Planning on 01208 816667 or email jbartlett@wwfp.net
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