Balancing Stress for Work and Home Life - Worksop Library - Adult Learning

This practical and calming course helps you understand stress, recognise your personal triggers, and develop grounding techniques to support balance at work and home. Through reflective activities, guided meditations, and simple pressure management tools, you’ll learn how to regulate emotions, manage your time and energy, and create healthier habits that support wellbeing.

Throughout the course, we will cover:

Understanding stress and exploring what stress is, how it shows up, and how to recognise early warning signs.

The stress response - Understand the physical and emotional impact of stress and how it influences behaviour.

Grounding techniques - Learn practical grounding tools and experience calming meditation.

Identifying Triggers - Analyse personal stress patterns and explore pressure points at work and home.

Managing Time and Energy - Evaluate habits, boundaries, and priorities to support balance and emotional steadiness.

Personal Stress Management Plan -Create a personalised plan and explore progression routes into Resilience and Mindset for Success.

No previous experience needed — just a willingness to explore new ways of responding to stress.

Resources needed to complete the course:

Bottle of Water.

Pen & Paper for notes/Journal.

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

• Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• North East Combined Authority

• South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

• Tees Valley Combined Authority

• West Midlands Combined Authority

• West of England Combined Authority

• West Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

• York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Hull and East Yorkshire

• Greater Lincolnshire

• Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority

• Cornwall Council

• Lancashire Combined County Authority

• Buckinghamshire Council

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.