Anxiety and Stress Relief-Personal Enrichment Workshop – 11/10/09

This workshop turned out to be a little of a disappointment for me.  I know that the goal of this workshop was to help you get relaxed and relieve stress but the only thing it did for me was put me to sleep.  The two instructors for the workshop were actual therapist that worked at the Baruch clinic where people or studnets could go if they were having problems with family or anything in general.  I never knew a place like that existed in Baruch so if I was able to take anything away form this workshop that would be it.  Besides that though theres not much else.  We did a bunch of excercises that were supposed to help us get loose and relazxed such as feeling a raisin in our hands and then rolling it aorund in our mouths, moving our shoulders back and forth, and just closing our eyes and taking deep breaths.  Following these excercises was practicing talking to parents about certain things you want to talk to them about.  This was actually kind of helpful becasue almost everyone would love to have an open relationship with their parents but it is almost impossible.  The instruectorsgave us a scenario in which they suggested several strategies to approach your parents.  Overall though I wouldn’t say this is a great workshop but not terrible.