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Taming Stress: Practical Strategies for a Balanced Life
with Elise Phillips
Are you juggling multiple balls in the air with your busy professional and/or personal life? Are you always trying to develop strategies that can help you to navigate and manage your stress well?
During this course you will learn an innovative approach and practical strategies to help you to navigate your life by taming stress. We will explore current symptoms of stress, stressors, triggers, and thought traps and learn positive and practical strategies for managing and re-framing by exploring current skills. Give yourself a gift and join us. Continue to be a lifelong learner and promote positive wellbeing skills through managing stress that will enhance your life.
Outline of Course:
- Learn the basics of stress
- Identify stressors, sources of stress, and triggers
- Develop positive strategies to manage stress
- Develop a results-oriented stress management plan
- Learn a 6-step approach to manage stress - anywhere!
Course Format:
You can participate in this course via Zoom while eating lunch at your desk, walking on the beach, or in the woods. Just carve out a time and place that works for you.
Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.
Smart Thinking: How the Brain Drives Better Decisions
with Angela Ackerman
Strengthen judgment and problem-solving with practical tools grounded in everyday psychology and clear-thinking strategies. This workshop explores how stress, emotion, and mental shortcuts shape the way people make decisions, and how simple, evidence-supported techniques can boost focus and clarity. Participants learn straightforward decision frameworks that help them sort information, weigh options, and choose next steps with confidence. Through realistic scenarios, they practice making decisions that are faster, clearer, and more effective.
Ideal for: Managers, professionals, analysts, educators, emerging leaders.
Take away: A decision-mapping template and a cognitive-bias checklist.
Format:
- Classes on 2/12 and 5/5 are held in-person at the CCCC, Hyannis Center location, 540 Main St., Hyannis.
- Class on 3/11, will be facilitated live via Zoom.
Questions: Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.