MINDSET: Performing Under Pressure

Overview

Across all walks of life, individuals are required to perform well in challenging circumstances. This experience can be stressful and may sometimes have a negative influence on wellbeing.

Mindset: Performing Under Pressure (MPUP) seeks to enhance individuals' wellbeing and performance in a variety of contexts ranging from students to athletes to the emergency services. Adopting a combination of education and applied strategies, MPUP is designed upon a sound theoretical background and supports individuals to experience more helpful thinking strategies that are effective in both their specific performance domain and more broadly as a life skill.

Course Overview

This masterclass will cover:

• How to change the way in which individuals think, which in turn, adaptively influences their emotions and behaviours in respect of performing under pressure.
• Changing the way individuals think about stress. Most people view stress in a solely negative way, but studies suggest that adopting a more balanced view of stress in general can be at the root of a range of helpful stress-related outcomes.
• The session also uses strategies such as self-compassion and enhancing perceptions of control that individuals can utilise before, during and after stressful situations.

Course Aims

Skills gained:

• Change the way in which you think about stress
• Influence emotions and behaviours of performing under pressure
• Self-compassion
• Enhancing perceptions of control

Knowledge gained:

• Cultivate a 'stress-is-enhancing' mindset
• More adaptive views about how stress facilities performance under pressure

Benefits

The learner will leave the session with:

• Practical skills of how to deal with stressful environments and situations
• A comprehensive understanding of how stress is understood and how these ways can be adapted to individual benefit

Award

On completion of this masterclass, learners will receive a Certificate of Attendance.

Funding

The Stoke-on-Trent Higher Skills Accelerator is fully funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in partnership with Stoke-on-Trent Council and offered free of charge to each participating individual.