The Upward Spiral for Managing Stress: Using Neuroscience to Reduce Stress and Enhance Wellbeing

This course will focus on explaining key aspects of neuroscience and stress and how to apply them to your life.  You will find it engaging, easy to understand, and grounded in scientific research. Most importantly, you will learn  practical steps you can take to better manage the stress in your life and to also help your clients manage chronic stress better.

You’ll learn what stress actually is from a scientific perspective. We’ll cover the two complementary parts of the autonomic nervous system.  You’ll discover how the specific things you pay attention to have a dramatic effect on your experience of stress. You’ll also learn several simple strategies for managing your stress that you can put into practice right away!  You will discover the 3 big steps you can take to increase resilience in the face of stress. You’ll learn about the brain circuits that contribute to stress, and how you can take small steps to actually change the activity and chemistry of your brain. We’ll explore the counterintuitive idea of how it can actually be good to focus on the worst-case scenario. And we’ll cover how your values actually keep your brain from being overwhelmed by stress.  You will learn strategies that can help you  increase your positive emotions and give you a whole new outlook on life. You’ll learn what to do in order to increase serotonin and to activate key emotional circuits.

All the recommendations presented by Dr Korb are grounded in neuroscience and are backed by scientific research. The course will give you really helpful strategies to provide to your clients to better manage stress. It will also help you gain an understanding of the neuroscience of stress, which you can also pass on to your clients.