In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive." -
Lee Iacocca
A Workshop on Stress Management was organised by CBSE Centre for Excellence at DAV Public School, Lawrence Road on 6
January,2024 for the teachers. A total of 60 teachers attended the day long workshop.
The workshop started with invocation to the Almighty, lighting of lamp and thereby sapling presentation to the CBSE Resource
Persons Ms. Dapinder kaur, Principal Sri Guru Harkrishan Public School, Majitha By Pass Amritsar and Ms Vimmi Sethi,former
PGT English, Amritsar.
In her opening address ,the Principal Dr. Pallavi Sethi ,underlined the importance and need for Stress Management in the day to
day handling of students by teachers.
The workshop began with an ice breaking session where the Resource Persons skillfully encouraged active participation from the
educators by fostering discussions and encouraging them to introspect about their own experiences. They underlined the
importance of self-awareness in managing stress, highlighting how recognizing and understanding one’s emotions and feelings are
pivotal in effectively addressing and coping with stressors.
They also explained the reasons that leads to Stress and discussed the symptoms to recognize them followed by the measures to
overcome the same. A number of case studies were given to the different groups and they were asked to categorize the case
studies under Eu stress or Distress. The entire workshop was conducted in an interactive manner and videos pertaining to the topic
were shown to reiterate the solutions of Stress Management.
The day long programme was inspiring as it enabled the teachers to learn how to control and reduce stress and thereby uplift
themselves as well as students with positive thoughts, become more helpful, lead healthier understanding of emotions and
reactions. It also enabled them to introspect to centre themselves as an effective teacher enabling the wellbeing of both self and
students.