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1-day workshop
Proven Techniques to Reduce Anxiety
This practical workshop gives you a deeper understanding of the many causes and presentations of problematic anxiety as well as an effective toolkit of proven techniques, strategies and skills to lower anxiety levels and help people manage their own anxiety better…
Course Factfile
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Accredited CPD: 6 hours
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Length: 1 day (9.30am - 4.00pm)
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Tutors: Dr Gareth Hughes, Ros Townsend
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Suitable for: See below
- Price: £220 per person
Includes lunch, refreshments and course notes
£220.00
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So many useful techniques. Thank you
Catherine, Family Support Worker
NEXT DATE: Mon 28th September, London with Dr Gareth Hughes – to ensure your place, book online now or call our friendly team on 01323 811690. More dates and venues available. What you will learn >
Why take this course
As well as giving you effective skills and techniques for reducing anxiety, this 1-day workshop will deepen your understanding of the essential role anxiety plays in our lives.
Having evolved to keep us safe, why is anxiety becoming so problematic for increasing numbers of people, seriously impacting their lives as it affects their thoughts, behaviours, emotions and physical health? What purpose do its symptoms serve? And, most importantly, what can we do to help people tame their anxiety so that it helps rather than harms them?
Suitable for professionals and anyone interested for personal reasons*, by setting anxiety in the broader context of our overall emotional health, this course gives you the means to relate your new knowledge and skills to your own experiences and observations, and the people you want to help.
You will gain a thorough understanding of the causes of dysfunctional anxiety – such as panic attacks, social anxiety, generalised anxiety (GAD), health or performance anxiety etc – as well as the additional challenges of addressing anxiety when it is a factor of trauma, bipolar, ADHD or autism.
You will also have the chance throughout the day to practice the new skills, techniques and strategies you will learn…
NB This course was previously entitled ‘How to help with Chronic Anxiety‘
What the course covers
- The purpose of anxiety and how it helps to keep us safe
- The stress responses common to both fear and anxiety – and how this fits within the broader context of the mental health continuum
- The many different ways anxiety may present and be experienced – and the multiple causes for this
- What happens in the brain when we become anxious – insights from neuroscience
- How anxiety affects the body and our physical health – and how the body affects anxiety
- Why effective interventions must include strategies to work with the 4 key elements: thoughts, emotions, behaviours and physical responses
- The causes, indications and impacts of dysfunctional anxiety
- Why anxiety problems are increasing
- How to recognise panic attacks and deal with them effectively
- How unconscious pattern matching (a key feature of trauma) can cause anxious thoughts, feelings and behaviours, apparently out of the person’s control
- Why some people may dissociate (appear to ‘tune out’ or not be present) when very stressed, and what to do about it
- Understanding why anxiety can be a feature for those with autistic spectrum disorder, ADHD, bipolar or borderline personality disorder
- The role of sleep and dreaming in helping us to manage anxiety
- Case study discussion including common presentations such as social, performance and health anxiety
PLUS effective, holistic tools and strategies drawing on up-to-date research evidence including:
- How to separate a person from their anxiety
- What is ‘acceptance’ and what is its role in recovery?
- Avoiding ‘avoidance’: how to enable a client to overcome fear and re-engage in a safe and structured way with key areas of their experience
- Multiple tools and techniques to reduce emotional arousal quickly
- Psychoeducation – straightforward and memorable understandings that can be shared immediately with clients
- Effective ways to challenge and work with anxious thoughts
- Opportunities to explore behavioural approaches
- Utilising the powerful resource of imagination (a resource that many anxious individuals inadvertently misuse)
- How to make goal setting an effective part of therapy
- The use of story as an agent for positive change
- How positive visualisation can make change more likely to happen
- How to approach anxiety when it is caused by: past experience, present circumstances or future fears
- How to use the client’s own resources – and how to find and access these
- How to combine our expertise and the client’s to co-create solutions and an ‘action-plan’ that work for them
- Implementing RIGAAR and the APET model
- And more…
During the workshop you will have the opportunity to apply this learning to whole-case scenarios and to learn and observe practical skills which you will be able to practise during the day.
Who is this course suitable for?
- Anyone who works with or treats people who may be highly anxious – such as psychotherapists, counsellors, HR personnel, life and business coaches, the emergency services, health and social care professionals, educators, chaplains, outreach workers, social workers, therapeutic coaches, pastoral care, youth offending, complementary therapists and individuals working in a variety of capacities in any number of organisations.
- The course also provides valuable understanding and practical help for anyone struggling to deal with their own anxiety or for those in relationships or families affected by high levels of anxiety.*
- Anyone looking to gain valuable life skills of benefit to everyone.
A really useful, interesting and fun course. I feel much better equipped to support clients suffering with anxiety now...
Lorraine Brown, Student Counsellor
Course Programme
The ‘Proven techniques to Reduce Anxiety’ workshop starts at 9.30am and runs until 4.00pm.
Good to know
Trauma, phobias and obsessive compulsive disorders are dealt with in more detail on separate practical skills training days (see Essential Trauma Training, Understanding Trauma, The Rewind Technique – Effective treatment for trauma (PTSD) and phobias and Obsessive compulsive disorder – understanding OCD and how best to treat it).
This day complements the Online Course: ‘Understanding anxiety – and managing it without drugs’
Counts towards a Diploma
By taking this stand-alone course, you could also be on your way to completing Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma – a flexible, part-time psychotherapy course which will deepen your psychological knowledge and increase your ability to help people effectively and quickly. Learn more >
The Human Givens Diploma is recognised by the new, national SCOPED Framework for counselling and psychotherapy training.
* Please Note: This course is not a substitute for individual therapy but the day covers a lot of helpful information and lots of techniques that anyone suffering from anxiety can take away and use themselves.
This course has been independently accredited by the internationally recognised CPD Standards Office for 6 hours of CPD training.
On completion of this training you’ll receive CPD certificates from the College and the CPD Standards Office.
Register your interest – next date
If you can’t make any of these course dates, please complete the form below and we’ll email you when another date becomes available.
Tell others about this course
Lots of new techniques introduced for our therapy toolboxes and a good mix of personal anecdotes and recollections of professional experience to help consolidate our learning. The notes are also excellent.
Hyponotherapist/Psychotherapist
Solution focused tools that can immediately be put into practice.
CEO, Residential Rehab
Particularly pleased by extensive nature of notes which were in line with presentation, and included all of the significant steps.
Director of Care – substance misuse clinics
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4.7/5 (69 Reviews)
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The trainer had great knowledge and experience. The course content was a good mix of theory and practical. Good supporting resources. Great venue . Ros Townsend’s depth of knowledge was clear. She was able to address questions and re-word information with clarity.
Very helpful to think about ways of working with anxiety within the context of APET and RIGAAR and use of resources to meet needs. Thinking of cognitive and imagination interventions.
Comprehensive and well explained account. Lots of practical strategies and approaches to use with clients.
Such a great course – found the exercises very useful. Great info, very well explained with lots of detail.
Great course with some valuable gems to work with anxiety in a structured way.
Course provided practical overview and framework on working thoughtfully with clients that are experiencing chronic anxiety. Gave me a lot of tools I could use in the counselling room.
A really useful, interesting and fun course. I feel much better equipped to support clients who are suffering with anxiety and also have some techniques to try myself! Jo was a great tutor – passionate and approachable.
Great understanding of how anxiety works. Jo was brilliant in her way of delivering the course. Another reason to take the Human Givens diploma!
Really helpful to gather many different tools and techniques, and gain practical experience during the day through working with others.
The course was very good as always – lots of informative knowledge and techniques that can be used positively.
Excellent, fast paced delivery – with lots of great information. Jo is very likeable and doesn’t mess around!
It was a very instructive course with up-to-date information and guidance.
Very clear, logical progression – great to revisit this course and refresh.
Very helpful – a great balance of theory and practical activities.
I enjoyed the morning – plenty of information. Afternoon exercise was relevant and interesting.
Excellent overview of understanding and managing anxiety. Well integrated with appropriate and helpful examples of language to use in a therapeutic setting.
This course met my needs to have a range of strategies available to me to use with clients as well as family members. It was relevant to my work and accessible and adaptable to suit many personalities and situations. Very useful, packed full of content.
Really great to get an overview of all the different ways anxiety can present and a toolkit of strategies to support people in their management of it.
Some good techniques for the toolbox was delivered very well. The human givens approach was more directive than I expected.
Jo was an excellent teacher and took us through the work effectively and I found a great deal to take away.
Today has built on previous on-line learning sessions and added to the area of anxiety and working towards the HG Diploma and becoming an HG therapist. Jo is approachable, extremely knowledgeable and clear in her presentation and content.
Tutor is very knowledgeable and explains things in practical and easy to understand ways.
Lots of interesting and useful information to take away.
Very good course – really well presented. Thank you.
Useful review of RIGAAR and very helpful walk through chronic anxiety and a range of practical interventions.
Very practical and digestible. Usable, memorable takeaways and toolkits.
Learned some useful techniques and improved my understanding of anxiety.
Very enriching, informative and inspirational!
Fast-paced, perhaps mirroring the subject matter! More experimental time would be helpful.
Thorough and clear. Lots of techniques to try one day
Very good
Everyone, not just people from the caring professions, will absolutely benefit from this! Skills to take with you at home, school, uni and work!
I found the course really useful in my work and I will definitely be incorporating what I learnt into practice.
Excellent trainer, very engaging, invaluable insights and knowledge
Really good. Very approachable and open to discussion.
a packed and fast paced day.
Jo is very knowledgeable and shared lots of really useful information about anxiety.
I enjoyed the day. It reinforced a lot of what I learned online and from the books.
A good overview of approaches to target and help deal with anxiety. Jo presented well in a friendly manner and offered interesting insights. Unfortunately there was a fair bit of repetition with the on-line course, although the revision was welcome!
Largely good. Practical elements were excellent.
Very useful resources that can be used, not only for anxiety management.
Excellent. Jo was excellent in teaching – her clarity and ease at explanation was great. I liked how she was able to make it a safe space for us to ask questions also.
Lots of new insights about anxiety and ways of dealing with it. Teacher very knowledgeable and experienced.
Really informative and well balanced
Very thorough anxiety information and practitioner skills for helping clients quickly!
Really informative course – good opportunity to practise what I’ve learnt. Lots of sharing from other students. Tutor very good – clear and practical.
Really good balance between teaching and small group work
Lots of information covered lots of areas and topics. So very useful for my practice.
Highly interactive and enjoyable course – great facilitation by Jo
Fascinating course – practical and useful skills. Learned to manage anxiety and understand its purpose in our lives. Fully interactive and engaging teaching. Thank you!
Such a well led informative session, so well presented – I could listen to Jo all day. Very experienced and able to retell that experience. There was so much that was useful.
Very accessible and informative, good acknowledgement of neurodiversity
Excellent, thorough notes, great examples and video and good to see specifics that we can use.
Jo is incredibly adept at teaching this important subject, backed up with evidence and so many useful techniques. I found the information on GAD very useful, as well as approach therapy from 3 points: cognitive, imaginational and behavioural. Thank you
Great collection of techniques and understanding of how anxiety impacts individuals and howe we can best help them. Stuffed full of strategies & tips. The idea of separating the person from the problem through metaphor, shape or colour was really useful and the ways to deal with unhelpful thoughts.
Jo is an excellent presenter. The workshop was very informative and interesting. Jo was very patient, answering all my questions. All the tools and techniques we were given will be useful.
An excellent day, great depth and coverage. Clear and engaging teaching. I enjoyed the visualisation.
Amazing, I loved the group discussions and tools given.
I really valued the unique insight gained from the guided imagery demonstration – very different from just reading about this.
Techniques came from lots of different angles – useful for a range of clients.
All of it has been very helpful with useful exercises and an inspiring/motivating video – a good balance.
The day was full of really useful and practical tools to take away and use.
A good range of suggestions and strategies to cope with anxiety.
Plenty of useful, practical ways offered to support clients. Good balance of listening and interacting exercises.
A wide variety of anxiety management techniques prepared very well.
The idea of practical solutions as apposed to psychodynamic – effective strategies to put straight into practice.
Wide variety of approaches and good supporting information. All applicable.
Practical ways of addressing anxiety.
Clear, well organised talk with plenty of skills outlined. I appreciated the opportunity to practise some of the skills. Good handbook, which matches the slides and augments the talk.