Stress Management Workshop:
Regulation and Recovery for Teams and Managers
Helping employees build resilience throughout the workday.
THE WORKSHOP
Building Workplace Resilience through Regulation and Recovery
AT A GLANCE
A 90-minute interactive stress management workshop, online or in person, for teams or managers who want to understand how the brain, body and nervous system respond to sustained pressure and learn practical ways to regulate and recover during the working day.
People can understand the effects of stress, know what would help, and still find themselves reacting, pushing through or unable to switch off. Under sustained demand, the body and brain adapt. What begins as a temporary stress response can become a familiar way of operating.
Stress is part of how we mobilise for effort, respond to challenges and learn. This stress management workshop focuses on the counterbalance to stress: how regulation and recovery help make that demand sustainable.
Regulation, recovery and appropriate support help people meet challenges—including those that initially feel beyond them—and create opportunities for learning, adaptation and growth. This workshop brings nervous system knowledge into the realities of meetings, difficult conversations, decisions and the pace of an ordinary working day.
PARTICIPANTS LEARN
What the Workshop Covers
How the body and brain communicate during stress, the body/mind patterns this can create and how physiological state can affect attention, thinking and behaviour
How to recognise the signs and degrees of being settled, activated, or immobilised.
Practical ways to work with stress through body-based strategies to support regulation in the moment.
The difference between regulation during demand and recovery over time, and how both help make stress an adaptive stimulus for learning, growth and resilience.
Why capable people may keep performing while their baseline gradually shifts towards persistent activation or exhaustion.
How to make more room for recovery within the structure of the working day and beyond.
The session includes opportunities for self-reflection and simple practical experiments. Participants can consider what helps them stay engaged under pressure, what signals tell them they need to pause, and which working-day patterns make it harder to recover.
For manager groups, the discussion can place greater emphasis on the pace and structure of team working, how to notice signs of strain, and how to create conditions in which people can raise concerns before they become more serious.
OUTCOMES
What Participants Leave With
INDIVIDUALS
Participants leave with a clearer understanding of how stress affects body and mind, greater awareness of their own patterns, and practical ways to support regulation and recovery during the working day and beyond.
TEAMS
Teams also gain a shared language for talking about stress, activation and recovery, and the conditions that help people remain well and effective under pressure throughout the working day.
WHO IT IS FOR
When this workshop is the right choice
The workshop is designed as a practical introduction to sustainable performance through nervous system regulation and recovery. It can stand alone or form part of a wider programme alongside Burnout Prevention and Recovery.
People are working through sustained or recurring periods of intensity.
The organisation is navigating change or uncertainty.
Stress-related sickness absence is a concern, and the organisation wants to strengthen support for employee wellbeing.
A team wants practical ways to support focus, energy and resilience.
Managers or internal coaches want to understand the physiological side of stress and bring that understanding into their work with others.
Enquire about a workshop
Tell me who the session is for and what has prompted your interest. We can discuss whether a team workshop, a manager session or another starting point would be most useful.
Testimonials
Nicola’s training workshop for our coaches and mentors was both impactful and fascinating, helping them recognise their own state and that of their clients, and offering practical ways to work with stress regulation and recovery.
She took great care to understand our brief, thoughtfully tailoring the content and working collaboratively with us to ensure it met our specific needs.
Shazia Mowlabaccus, Organisational & Staff Development – Human Resources
Middlesex University
Following a regulation and recovery workshop with coaching and mentoring practitioners at Middlesex University, commissioned through Organisational and Staff Development within Human Resources, participants reported:
“I hadn’t recognised that some of what was covered was a stress response in coachees. Particularly immobilisation, where we ask a lot of the coachee conversationally.”
“I think this is so useful for knowing myself as much as my coaching practice. Recognising these states of stress response in myself and others.”
“So helpful to be more aware of the client’s physiological state.”
“Just a reminder of the power of allowing someone to stop and take a breath. Recognising the physical signs can help us recognise the best way to respond to a situation.”
You can hear more about my approach on the Brightmine (formerly XpertHR) podcast episode.
Burnout in the workplace: a new approach to recovery.
FAQ’S
What is your approach to resilience?
I understand resilience as the ability to respond to demands, regulate through them and recover sufficiently afterwards. Being resilient does not mean continually pushing through. When recovery repeatedly falls behind demand, that way of coping can become counterproductive. My approach brings together psychological understanding, nervous system physiology and the conditions of work that influence both.
What is the format of the workshop?
This is a 90-minute interactive session that can be delivered online or in person, depending on location. It combines accessible teaching, self-reflection and practical exercises. The emphasis can be adapted for employees, managers or internal coaches.
How is this different from other stress management workshops?
This workshop goes further into how the nervous system responds and how people can recognise and work with their state. This Stress Management workshop also offers a broader introduction to how stress affects thinking, behaviour and performance. This session gives time to regulation practices and recovery within the working day.
Is it suitable for a team already experiencing burnout?
The workshop can help a team understand patterns of activation and under-recovery, but regulation techniques alone cannot resolve sustained overload or unsuitable working conditions. If burnout is already a significant concern, the Burnout Prevention and Recovery Workshop may be the better starting point. We can discuss what is happening in your team before deciding.
Can the workshop be adapted to our organisation?
Yes. A short discussion beforehand helps me understand your audience, the pressures they face and what you would like the session to achieve.
Nicola Turner MSc.
Performance, Regulation and Recovery Specialist.
Perspective built from both sides of the table.
I spent ten years in corporate HR before training as a psychotherapist and spending over seventeen years working clinically with stress, mental health, nervous system regulation, and behaviour change. I also have specialist training in physiological recovery.
That combination, understanding both the organisational systems that create sustained demand and the physiological and psychological systems that determine how people cope, is what shapes this work. My interest is in what happens when capable people continue performing under sustained pressure, how to create sustainable wellbeing under high demand and what individuals and organisations can do before coping becomes depletion.
Get Started
ENQUIRE ABOUT A WORKSHOP
Drop me a line and let’s get the ball rolling.