Managing Stress and Building Resilience
Build Resilience, Connection & Positive Workplace Culture
Stress is a normal part of life, but understanding how it affects us — and how we respond to it — can make a real difference to our wellbeing.
This interactive workshop explores the Stress Container through discussion, reflection and creative doodling. Participants identify what is filling their container, explore helpful and unhelpful coping mechanisms, and consider healthier ways to release pressure.
The session provides practical tools to help colleagues manage stress, build resilience, improve self-awareness and support sustainable wellbeing — both at work and beyond.
About the Session
This interactive session creates space for colleagues to pause, reflect and recognise the positive aspects of their lives and work. Through mindfulness, guided reflection, discussion, and doodling, participants experience practical gratitude exercises they can take beyond the session and incorporate into everyday life.
Key elements include:
Mindful Arrival & Breathwork: A short grounding exercise to help participants pause, regulate, and arrive fully present before the session begins.
Wellbeing Index Check-In: A simple 1–10 check-in that gives colleagues permission to be honest about how they’re really feeling, creating space for authentic conversations, connection and greater understanding.
The Stress Container: A creative doodling exercise where participants map what's currently filling their container, the habits that cause it to overflow, and the outlets that help release the pressure.
Coping Strategies & Resource Toolkit: A practical, take-home list of healthier coping tools and exercises participants can keep using long after the session ends.
Benefits for Your Teams
Supports mental wellbeing, resilience and emotional balance
Builds awareness of personal stress triggers, responses and coping habits
Uses creative doodling to make stress more visual, accessible and easier to reflect on
Strengthens connection through open and honest conversations about stress
Provides practical strategies colleagues can use to manage stress and build resilience beyond the session
Delivery Options
This workshop can be delivered in-person or online, making it flexible for different team structures and organisational needs. It can be delivered as a standalone wellbeing session or incorporated into a wider mental health, wellbeing, leadership, or World Mental Health Day programme.
The session can also be adapted for leadership teams, managers, employee communities, or organisation-wide audiences.