The HeartMath De-Stress™ Workshop for Veterans teaches each veteran self-regulation skills that provide simple and effective ways to shift into the coherence mode, a mental state of personal readiness, in which the veteran’s heart, brain and nervous system are brought back into alignment. Coherence creates a balance between the body and mind and a healthy sense of well-being.
In this workshop, the de-stressed veteran begins building greater focus and becomes aware of ways to manage nervous feelings and create more inner security. Equipped with improved personal readiness and greater emotional balance, the veteran is strengthened to meet the demands of the military-to-civilian transition process.
Veterans can immediately begin using the skills to start the process of managing stress and identifying depleting emotions, which drain resilience, impair relationships and diminish mental and physical performance. They learn to use researched-based self-regulation techniques to deal with a host of reintegration issues and predictable stressors such as frustration, impatience, anger and worry and to respond with greater mental focus and emotional balance.
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 personal readiness plans and leave the workshop with a clear understanding of how to apply these tools and skills in their daily lives as part of their military-to-civilian transition process and into their new careers.
Workshop Objectives:
- Learn about the physiology of stress and resilience.
- Understand how stress and emotions impact 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. Veterans’ children are an important part of the transition process, so parents will be given free access to age-appropriate versions of these techniques to share with family members.
- 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.
