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Be the Change: A Different Approach to Stress at Work

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  • Masterclass
  • Stress & Resilience
  • 45 min
  • English

Stress is often treated as an individual problem. Meditate more, manage your workload, breathe deeper. And while those things help, they miss something important: the collective stressors of our environment, our workplace, and the world at large often go unspoken.

For Stress Awareness Month (April 2026), we’ve collaborated with psychologist Jochem Bukman to challenge the way we think about stress at work. Rather than treating stress as something individuals should manage alone, this masterclass focuses on how organisations, leaders, and teams can create space to talk openly about stress, and actually do something about it together.

In this masterclass, you’ll learn:

  • How external stress lowers our threshold for coping at work, and how we can help each other lighten the load
  • How understanding personality types and working styles can help alleviate stress and build resilience across your team
  • How small, shared changes in how you lead, communicate, and show up for each other can make a real difference to how stress is experienced across a team

Can’t join live? No worries! After the session, you will find the recording in the MyOpenUp Videos section.

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