Befriending Anxiety

Are you living with anxiety? Is your mind forever projecting into the future all its worries, concerns, fears, limitations, anxieties? Maybe you’re always comparing yourself to others’ success or letting everyone else’s opinions dictate how you feel about yourself?

Anxiety is more than just feeling stressed or worried. While stress and anxious feelings are a common reaction to a situation when we feel under pressure, they usually pass once the stressful situation has passed or the ‘stressor’ is removed. If anxiety is affecting your life, this course can help.

Befriending Anxiety is a self-paced online course delivered over four modules to assist you to better manage anxiety and live free from its debilitating effects. We share practical, evidence-based tools and strategies to reduce the symptoms and live with greater peace and calm.

Each module offers contemporary and easy to understand approaches plus straightforward models to explain brain function and how it relates to anxiety. There are simple practices that can make a profound difference to your experience of anxiety. Reflective questions are incorporated into each module to support your learning.

Facilitators Petrea King and Margie Braunstein, through their personal and professional experience, engage, educate, encourage and support you to develop a Personal Plan to manage anxiety.

Undertake the course in your own time, at your own speed. Each module is between 14-20 minutes long, accompanied by reflective questions.

What’s included

• 4 course module videos plus Introductory video
• Integrated course workbook including reflective questions for each module
• Personal Plan template and guide
• Additional resources – research and links
• Downloadable meditation MP3s:
• Introduction to Coming to Your Senses
• Coming to Your Senses
• Be Calm

What you’ll learn

• Recognise how anxiety shows up in our lives
• Identify symptoms, causes, and different types of anxiety
• Easing anxiety: Practical activities to reduce anxiety and create calm
• Managing your inner world: Strategies to tame and reshape the anxious brain
• Develop your Personal Plan to journey towards recovery, ease your symptoms and support a calm nervous system

We each need to find our own best answer to the challenges we face. While we provide education and many practical strategies, techniques and tools to increase your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, you’re encouraged to implement the ideas that feel right for you.

Our nationally acclaimed programs change people’s lives in practical and positive ways and people generally leave confident in their ability to meet the significant challenges they face.