Stop worrying
In collaboration with professor Ad Kerkhof
Training Stop worrying
Contents of this online training
To determine your progress, keep track of the extent to which you have worried during the past week during training. Moreover, from this moment on you will no longer worry all day long.
In this session you will explore what enjoyable activities you can use to distract yourself when you feel like you can't stop thinking unnecessarily.
You can take the worry out of your head by writing down your thoughts and sharing them with others. In this session you will immediately start working on this.
Do you often imagine catastrophic events and doomsday scenarios? In this session you make your ideas realistic.
In this session you will reflect on everything you are proud of in your life. What is going well? What are you grateful for? This way you learn to also consider the positive aspects.
Do you notice when you lose control of your thoughts? Awareness of your negative thoughts is important in order to defuse them.
In this session you will work on the topics in your life that worry you most. How can you look at it differently?
You will work on a writing exercise to look at an unpleasant event from the past that you are worrying about through a different lens.
In this session you will learn to look at your own thoughts without judging. You have thoughts, you are not your thoughts.
Sticking labels without any knowledge, nice black and white thinking. Many people engage in some persistent thinking habits. In this session you will unmask your own thinking errors.
Often you keep beating around the bush on a decision, making you indecisive and passive. A step-by-step plan helps you make a decision.
Are you afraid that your worries will come true? In this session you imagine that this is indeed happening. And then you say to yourself: 'So what?'
Get a grip on your thoughts
- Identify what is good
- Thinking instead of worrying
- Look at your thoughts without judgment
- Gain insight into your own thinking habits
- How to combat nighttime worrying
- How to make decisions with a step-by-step plan
- Plus: a downloadable report of all your completed assignments