How long is Bounce Back From Stress, and how is it scheduled?

The programme runs as one full day, or as two half-day sessions held roughly two weeks apart. Splitting it gives participants time to test their recovery habits and boundary scripts in a real working week before the second session. Teams that struggle to release people for a whole day usually choose the two half-days.

How much does Bounce Back From Stress cost?

Pursue Your Potential prices per group rather than per person, so the fee depends on group size, format and whether follow-up coaching is included. There is no public rate card, because a virtual half-day for eight people and an in-person day for fourteen are different pieces of work. Send the group size and preferred format and you will get a written quote.

How is this different from a mindfulness session or a wellbeing webinar?

This is skills training, not awareness raising, and it is not therapy. Participants spend most of the day practising specific behaviours: naming their own warning signs, running a recovery routine, and saying no to a real request out loud with feedback. Mindfulness and meditation are mentioned only where a participant already uses them, and the workshop does not ask anyone to disclose a diagnosis or a personal history.

Can it run virtually, and how many people can attend?

It runs both in person and as a virtual workshop, with 6 to 14 participants either way. The virtual version keeps the same practice rounds using breakout rooms, with the facilitator moving between pairs to give feedback. Groups smaller than six lose the range of situations that makes the practice useful, and groups larger than fourteen cut the airtime each person gets.

What follow-up is available after the workshop?

Three options are available and can be combined: one-to-one coaching sessions for participants who want help with a specific situation, a 60-day group check-in that reviews what held and what slipped, and a short briefing for the managers of everyone attending. The manager briefing matters most, because boundaries agreed in a workshop tend to collapse if the manager is unaware of them. All follow-up is optional and quoted separately.

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Bounce Back From Stress

Bounce Back From Stress is a one-day practical resilience workshop from Pursue Your Potential that teaches employees to recognise their own early warning signs of stress, build recovery habits into an ordinary working week, and set boundaries they can hold without damaging working relationships.

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Outcomes

What changes afterwards

Name your three earliest warning signs of stress, in the order they usually appear for you
Distinguish pressure you can work with from pressure that is depleting you, and act on the difference
Run a short recovery reset that fits between meetings and at the end of a working day
Decline, defer or renegotiate a request out loud without damaging the relationship
Redesign one recurring week so recovery is scheduled rather than hoped for
Agree two workload boundaries with your manager and hold them for the following month

Why teams run this

Almost nobody announces it. What arrives instead is a reliable person missing a deadline they would normally protect, a steady colleague becoming short in meetings, or three people taking annual leave and none of them coming back rested. By the time stress is named out loud it has usually been running for months, and the person carrying it has narrowed their world down to getting through the week.

Most organisations respond with awareness. People learn what stress is, agree that it matters, and return to exactly the same week. This programme starts from the other end: what one person can actually change on Monday morning. It treats resilience as a set of habits and decisions rather than a personality trait, and it accepts that the workload is often not going anywhere. What can change is how early someone notices the slide, how quickly they recover, and how clearly they negotiate what they take on.

What happens in the room

Participants work on their own current pressure, not invented case studies. Everyone arrives with one real situation: the project that has eaten four weekends, the manager who sends messages at eleven at night, the role that quietly absorbed a departed colleague’s work. Louisa Savva facilitates, drawing on more than two decades in corporate learning and development, and keeps the day anchored to those situations rather than to a model on a slide.

The morning maps each person’s stress signature: what changes first in their sleep, attention, mood and body, and in what order it happens. That gives everyone a personal early warning system instead of a general definition. The afternoon is the harder half, because it deals with boundaries. Saying no is a skill, and it is practised out loud, in pairs, with feedback, until it sounds like the person speaking rather than a borrowed script.

A personal stress signature profile, completed and interpreted in the room
A paired diagnostic on where energy actually goes across a typical week
Practice rounds on declining, deferring and renegotiating a real request, with live feedback from the group and the facilitator
A role-play of one workload conversation with a manager, run twice so the second attempt improves on the first
A short section on deliberate recovery after a genuinely bad period, rather than waiting to feel better
A written 30-day plan built in the last hour, with two commitments each person names to the group

What people leave with

Everything on the list below fits on a couple of sides of paper. It is short, personal and written by the participant, which is why it tends to get used.

A one-page stress signature: their own early warning signs, in sequence, with the action attached to each
Two boundary scripts in their own words, already tested against a real situation
A 30-day recovery plan with specific slots in a specific week, not general intentions
Two commitments stated aloud to the group, which makes them noticeably harder to quietly drop

Making it stick

One workshop rarely changes a working week on its own, so follow-up is built into how Pursue Your Potential runs this. Participants can take optional one-to-one coaching sessions to work through a situation that is still stuck. A 60-day group check-in brings everyone back for ninety minutes to review what held, what slipped and why, which is usually the point at which the difficult conversations get had properly. A separate briefing for participants’ managers covers what was agreed and what support the boundaries need, because a boundary a manager has not heard about is a boundary that lasts about a fortnight. Each element is optional, and most clients choose the manager briefing at minimum.

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How long is Bounce Back From Stress, and how is it scheduled?: The programme runs as one full day, or as two half-day sessions held roughly two weeks apart. Splitting it gives participants time to test their recovery habits and boundary scripts in a real working week before the second session. Teams that struggle to release people for a whole day usually choose the two half-days.
How much does Bounce Back From Stress cost?: Pursue Your Potential prices per group rather than per person, so the fee depends on group size, format and whether follow-up coaching is included. There is no public rate card, because a virtual half-day for eight people and an in-person day for fourteen are different pieces of work. Send the group size and preferred format and you will get a written quote.
How is this different from a mindfulness session or a wellbeing webinar?: This is skills training, not awareness raising, and it is not therapy. Participants spend most of the day practising specific behaviours: naming their own warning signs, running a recovery routine, and saying no to a real request out loud with feedback. Mindfulness and meditation are mentioned only where a participant already uses them, and the workshop does not ask anyone to disclose a diagnosis or a personal history.
Can it run virtually, and how many people can attend?: It runs both in person and as a virtual workshop, with 6 to 14 participants either way. The virtual version keeps the same practice rounds using breakout rooms, with the facilitator moving between pairs to give feedback. Groups smaller than six lose the range of situations that makes the practice useful, and groups larger than fourteen cut the airtime each person gets.
What follow-up is available after the workshop?: Three options are available and can be combined: one-to-one coaching sessions for participants who want help with a specific situation, a 60-day group check-in that reviews what held and what slipped, and a short briefing for the managers of everyone attending. The manager briefing matters most, because boundaries agreed in a workshop tend to collapse if the manager is unaware of them. All follow-up is optional and quoted separately.

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