6 Week Employee Stress Reduction and Self-Regulation Group Coaching Programme

Outline

This six-week group coaching programme is designed for employees who want to cultivate healthy habits to reduce stress, improve their ability to regulate emotional responses and increase their resilience and well-being. Ultimately, they will become better equipped to lead in these times of accelerating change and complexity.

This programme is grounded in science and includes an advanced biofeedback device called the Inner Balance Coherence Plus from HeartMath that measures Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Coherence in real-time. These measures have been extensively researched for over 30 years and are reliable indicators of how we respond to stress. By using the Inner Balance sensor, participants receive real-time feedback that enables them to see the impact of their learning, fine-tune their approach and monitor progress over time.

Format

We meet weekly via Zoom or MS Teams for six weeks. Each session will last up to 90 minutes. In our first session, we'll take time to get to know each other, create our group learning agreement, set individual goals and ensure everyone is comfortable with the technology we'll be using. Over the following weeks, we'll explore the causes of stress, energy depletion and renewal, practice a powerful technique for self-regulation and discover ways to build supportive habits.

As this is a group coaching programme rather than a group training session, each participant will be actively engaged and have time to reflect on their unique situation and develop individualised strategies. Between each session, participants will be encouraged to practice, experiment and monitor their progress.

What's included

Six live group-coaching sessions, one per week. Each session will last up to 90 minutes.
The Inner BalanceTM Coherence Plus sensor from HeartMath® - which is yours to keep following the training (valued at €265)
A free lifetime subscription to the HeartMath app for Android / iOS (Valued at €75 per year), which includes hours of additional learning, videos, tools, practices and audiobooks.
A Pre and Post programme complimentary stress self-assessment questionnaire
A PDF workbook that will support your learning in each of our six group-coaching sessions.

Benefits/outcomes

Soften and relieve the effects of stress and fill your life with more calm, joy and inner security.
Cultivate emotional balance, clarity and compassion in your relationships, career and life.
Have more energy throughout the day by learning to quickly recharge your energy reserves and reduce the energy drain caused by life's stresses.
Cultivate greater access to your intuition and make decisions from a more resourced state rather than reacting.
Develop greater care, connection, compassion and empathy for yourself and others.

Requirements

Attend all six group coaching sessions.
Minimise distractions at each session so you can be fully focused and present - sessions are not recorded.
Ensure you join each session from a space that affords privacy so you can feel comfortable practising and using the Inner Balance sensor.
Be willing to experiment and practice between sessions (at a minimum, you'll want to give yourself 10-20 minutes a day)
If you have a pacemaker, you can benefit from the learning throughout the group coaching programme; however, depending on the type of pacemaker, there may be no benefit in using the biofeedback device to measure HRV. Pacemakers that continually pace the heart will ensure that the heart beats at the same rate; therefore, changes in the HRV in response to the nervous system are impossible. You can find out more information here
To use the Inner Balance Coherence Plus sensor, you'll need an Android or iOS device that meets the following:

iOS 16.0 or greater
Android v9.0 or above
Bluetooth v4.0 or higher.
Able to install applications from the official Apple/Android app stores.

For Your Organisation

If you are interested in running this group coaching programme for a cohort within your ogranisation, please reach out to discuss your needs. Some modifications can be accommodated to meet your needs (in terms of session duration, frequency and in-person vs remote) and we can typically work with groups of up to 4-12 people.

About the Inner Balance Sensor & HeartMath

HeartMath was born from a deep sense of caring for people and our planet. Founded in 1991 by Doc Childre, HeartMath has developed a system of effective, scientifically based tools and technologies to bridge the intuitive connection between heart and mind and deepen our connection with the hearts of others.

The HeartMath system empowers people to self-regulate their emotions and behaviours to reduce stress, increase resilience, and unlock their natural intuitive guidance for making more effective choices. This enables people to break through to greater levels of personal balance, creativity, insight and health. Over 300 peer-reviewed or independent studies utilising HeartMath techniques or technologies to achieve beneficial outcomes have been published.

To learn more about HeartMath and the Inner Balance sensor we'll be using on this programme, please visit the HeartMath website here.

This programme is delivered by Stephen Clements who has been trained and certified as a HeartMath Certified Coach.

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