Managing Anxiety

This rotating trio of workshops introduces concepts from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to explore how thoughts and feelings relate to physical symptoms and behaviour. If you have been feeling ‘on edge’, notice that you are avoiding people or situations or find that the butterflies in your stomach are busier than usual, come along and learn some strategies to cope better.

Managing Anxiety 1: Physical symptoms

This workshop will give you:

• a broader understanding of what triggers anxiety
• the physical symptoms we experience with anxiety
• strategies and techniques to relieve the physical symptoms of anxiety

Managing Anxiety 2: Mind

This workshop will give you:

• an understanding of how thoughts and beliefs influence our feelings and behaviours
• an understanding of the nature of anxious thoughts
• strategies for managing anxious thoughts

Managing Anxiety 3: Behaviour

This workshop will give you:

• an understanding of the role of uncertainty in anxiety and how to manage this
• insight into how we can get stuck in cycles of fear and the role of avoidance in maintaining this
• an understanding of how to use Graded Exposure to overcome our fears in a way that feels manageable

When and where?

These workshops are for students and are run throughout the academic year in the Resource Room in the Simon Building. You can come to one, two, or all three, as many times as you like and in no particular order. There is no need to book, just turn up! Find out when the next session is by visiting our Workshops page.

Managing Anxiety

This is a Zoom facilitated session for students. Please be aware that you must register before 9.30 am on the day of the workshop in order to ensure enough time for the link to be sent.

Do you feel anxious or spend too much time worrying? Do you experience: unpleasant physical symptoms such as breathlessness, racing heart and butterflies in your stomach; find it difficult to focus and concentrate; and avoid certain situations or engage in other anxiety driven behaviour? Have you found that, since COVID-19, you are experiencing anxiety for the first time or your anxiety has become worse? If you answer yes to all or some of these questions, this workshop is for you.

This Zoom workshop will be informed by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. It will help you to gain a better understanding of anxiety and what you can do to manage it, using a range of practical strategies and techniques.

This Zoom workshop will provide an opportunity for Q&A for those who wish to engage in the chat at the end of the session. Audio and video functions will be disabled. Further Zoom etiquette will be sent with the meeting link.