The Challenge of Change

The stress management course that helps you regain your balance against a background of daily stress

Do your staff complain about stress and pressure? If the pressures are inevitable, would you like to find a way to help them cope with stress, and enjoy their highly demanding jobs more? As a manager, do you need to reduce sickness absence?

The Media Minds stress management course is qualitatively different from conventional approaches to stress. It has been developed with individuals working in the high stress environments of newsrooms, accident departments and the criminal justice arena. It works from the evidence that different personalities have different coping strategies, but that we can regain our balance against a background of day to day stress. The techniques are a vital resource for anyone facing the challenge of change. The course has been shown to reduce sickness absence and to increase job satisfaction and morale.

“Feedback from this course is consistently impressive. The benefits are immediately apparent, and unlike many comparable courses, the effects are long-lasting”

BBC

Participants take away a practical package showing their own strengths and weaknesses, and a system for capitalising on the former and changing the latter. There is also an audiotape and CD describing techniques for deep relaxation and, more importantly, attention control.

Media Minds has helped companies with their strategic communications since 1998. We specialise in coaching top spokespeople in professional media relations and in techniques for powerful presentation.

Now Media Minds also offers this preventative course giving individuals the tools to cope with everyday stress. Like our other courses is it is evidence-based, tried and tested through rigorous evaluation and delivered in a highly professional manner by a clinical psychologist with many years of experience.

Dr Marianne Meadows, Stress Consultant

Marianne is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist working within the NHS. Her PhD focussed on the effects of stress and personality on health. She has worked with Dr Derek Roger on his stress management programme 'The Challenge of Change', and is part of the Work Skills Centre stress management consultancy. Dr Meadows offers her innovative approach to stress management through Media Minds.

Clients include Audit Commission, HSBC plc, Crown Prosecution Service, HM Revenue and Customs, BBC, National Blood Service, Newcastle Airport and many others.