Work-Life Balance & Stress Management Workshop

Work-Life Balance & Stress Management in the Workplace

Work-related stress is not a personal failure; it is the most prevalent psychosocial hazard in European workplaces, and one that organisations have a legal obligation to manage. The conventional response, resilience training, mindfulness apps, and wellness days, addresses symptoms without touching causes. This workshop combines practical individual strategies with an honest examination of the organisational conditions that produce unsustainable pressure.

Format

Duration: 90 minutes – 2 hours

Location: Online or In Person

What This Workshop Covers

Understanding Stress as a Psychosocial Hazard

Stress is not just a personal response; it is a psychosocial risk that organisations are legally required to manage under frameworks including ISO 45003 and the EU Framework Directive. This section gives participants a clear understanding of the organisational conditions that drive workplace stress, high demands, low control, poor support, and why individual coping strategies are insufficient without addressing root causes.

Recognising Burnout: Before It Becomes a Crisis

The difference between stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue. The early warning signs are commonly missed or dismissed. Why burnout tends to affect the most committed employees first, and why organisations should treat early burnout signals as a systemic risk indicator rather than an individual weakness.

Boundaries: The Practical Reality

Setting limits is not the same as being difficult. This section provides practical frameworks for setting and communicating boundaries at work, with managers, colleagues, and clients, in ways that are sustainable, professional, and less likely to trigger professional consequences.

Managing Non-Promotable Tasks

Research shows that women disproportionately carry the administrative, relational, and organisational ‘glue work’ of teams, work that is essential but not rewarded and not career-advancing. This section examines how non-promotable task accumulation contributes to stress and burnout, and what managers can do to redistribute it equitably.

Building Individual Resilience: What Actually Works

Evidence-based strategies for building the psychological resources that allow people to absorb difficulty without breaking. Not mindfulness apps or gratitude journals, but the specific practices of recovery, perspective, and connection that the research on resilience identifies as genuinely effective.

What You Will Leave With

• Understand work-related stress as a psychosocial hazard with organisational causes — not just individual responses
• Recognise early burnout signals in themselves and in their teams
• Apply practical techniques for setting and communicating sustainable boundaries
• Identify and address non-promotable task accumulation in their team
• Build evidence-based individual resilience practices

Who Should Attend

• All employees experiencing or at risk of work-related stress or burnout
• People managers who want to support their teams more effectively and spot early warning signs
• HR and Wellbeing professionals developing or reviewing stress management policy

Organisations preparing for ISO 45003 psychosocial risk assessments

The 3Plus Difference

Unlike generic resilience training, this workshop is grounded in psychosocial safety research and takes the organisational drivers of stress as seriously as the individual experience. Participants leave with strategies they can actually use, and managers leave with a clearer understanding of their legal and ethical responsibilities.

Book This Workshop for Your Organisation

This workshop is available online or in-person and can be customised to include your organisation’s specific working context and current wellbeing data. Contact us at info@3plusinternational.com.