The Who
For individuals working in a fast-paced startup or innovation team, or entrepreneurs and founders running their own biz.
The What
In this four-hour virtual course facilitated by a mental health professional (and founder), you’ll learn tangible skills and strategies for better coping with stress in your entrepreneurial journey. We know you're busy, so do it on your time, on your schedule, and at your pace.
The Why
Finding ways to take care of yourself amidst the demands of a high-stress role or running your own venture is beyond important. If you burn out, what is the true cost? We’re here to tell you that you don’t need to put your head down and grind it out. There are ways to lessen the (emotional) load without taking things off of your plate.
Part 1: Understanding Stress
Learn what stress is, how it gets turned on, how it works, how it impacts us, and the reason we have a stress response, so you can make better decisions and respond to stress in more effective ways. Learn to recognize what stress looks like for you.
Part 2: Getting Cognitive
Learn a tool and framework that we can apply to untangle our perceptions of stimuli in our environment (and therefore impact our stress response system), so we can respond more effectively and better maintain our mental health.
Part 3: Getting Emotional
Learn to better understand what emotions are and the purpose that they serve. Learn how you truly feel about your feelings, and then practice being mindful and present to help you identify how you’re feeling in any situation.
Part 4: Getting (Un)Stressed
Integrate your learning from the previous sections as we learn a framework to create your own personal dashboard that allows you to recognize where your stress is at, and helps you identify what you need as a result. Identify buffers (or coping strategies) that work for you.
Example Curriculum
- Intro to Part 1: Understanding Stress (1:24)
- What is stress, really? (5:19)
- Stress is a messenger: The stress response (5:10)
- Different kinds of stress (2:04)
- Activity: Signs of chronic stress
- Your experiences with stress (1:33)
- Reflection: Your experiences with stress
- Recognizing Stress (2:43)
- Let's Talk About Stress Worksheet
- Intro to Part 2: Getting Cognitive (1:25)
- The Cognitive Triangle (10:28)
- Activity: The Cognitive Triangle
- Practicing the Triangle (4:01)
- Reflection: Patterns and connections
- Opportunities for change (3:59)
- Activity: Opportunities for change
- Prioritizing practice: Introducing Implement, Integrate, and Impact (2:45)
- Reflection: Implement
- Integrate (0:45)
- Reflection: Integrate
- Impact (0:37)
- Reflection: Impact
- The Cognitive Triangle Worksheet
- Intro to Part 3: Getting Emotional (0:59)
- What are emotions, really? (5:11)
- Reflection: Feeling about feelings
- Getting stuck (2:16)
- Reflection: Getting stuck
- Moving through feelings (6:08)
- Practicing moving through feelings (4:32)
- What do we need? (4:13)
- Activity: Emotions and needs
- Implement, Integrate, and Impact (2:14)
- Reflection: Implement, Integrate, and Impact
- The Emotions Matrix Worksheet
- Intro to Part 4: Getting (Un)Stressed (1:26)
- The Stress Levels Tool (5:19)
- Stress Levels: Green Zone (2:04)
- Activity: Stress Levels
- Stress Levels: Red Zone (2:50)
- Activity: Stress Levels
- Buffers (4:04)
- Stress Buffers Worksheet
- Address and Adapt (1:57)
- Activity: Address and Adapt
- Stress Levels: The Right Side (1:50)
- Activity: Stress Levels
- Window of Tolerance (4:12)
- Reflection: Prioritizing mental health
- Implement, Integrate, and Impact (3:46)
- Reflection: Implement, Integrate, and Impact
- Stress Levels Worksheet
Meet Your Facilitator
Sarah Mateshaytis, MSW, RSW
Co-founder of Collectively Tangled
Sarah (she/her) is a registered social worker who cares deeply about how we’re all actually doing. Before diving into entrepreneurship, she worked in a variety of mental health settings working with children, youth, individuals, families, couples, and everyone in between. She gets how hard this work is because as an entrepreneur, she lives it every day.
When she’s not counselling, facilitating, or trying to grow her biz, you might find her hiking, making medium-quality gluten-free concoctions in the kitchen, or snuggling up on the couch with her pup, Tetley.
