The HeartMath De-Stress™ Workshop for Military Families is a practical, down-to-earth, program that teaches family members specific skills for de-stressing and bringing more balance and ease into their daily challenges, communications, relationships and support of loved ones during deployment and reintegration. These skills can be used to better manage stress and are especially helpful in preparing for potentially difficult situations.
This program’s success can be attributed largely to two of HeartMath’s most effective self-regulation techniques, which provide simple, but effective ways to shift into coherence, a state in which the heart, brain and nervous system are in alignment. This balanced state forms the foundation of both personal and family resilience.
In addition, family members learn to start the process of managing stress and identifying depleting emotions, those that drain our resilience, impair relationships and diminish performance.
The techniques and skills learned in this workshop will help with:
- stressful situations
- becoming anxious, angry or frustrated
- unexpected changes
- arguments
- disappointments
- conflicts
- overload
- making difficult decisions
Participants create and commit to their personal practice plans and leave the workshop with a clear understanding of how to apply these tools and skills in their daily lives.
Workshop Objectives:
- Understand how stress impacts you and your loved ones
- Learn how to better self-regulate thoughts and emotions
- Learn how to create more coherent and harmonious family relationships
- Learn how to find more effective solutions for life challenges and stressful situations
- Learn how to create ease through many stressful scenarios and create flow through challenges
For Children:
The Institute of HeartMath has developed a set of heart-based tools and techniques that enable children and teens to better recognize and self-regulate stress. Participants in this workshop will be given free access to age-appropriate versions of these techniques to share with their children.
- Shift and Shine™ (Ages 3-6)
- Heart Shift™ (Ages 7-12)
- Quick Coherence® (Ages 13-18)
The De-Stress Workshop can be delivered by HeartMath or certified trainers. For information call (800) 711-6221 or e-mail military@heartmath.org.
