Name: Designing Containers How to Reduce Stress Without Escaping your Job
Start: 2026-03-07T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-28T12:00:00-05:00
Location: 2257 Vista Pkwy suite 26

Designing Containers How to Reduce Stress Without Escaping your Job

A 2-hour behavioral design workshop for professionals who want less stress by building structure, not escaping their job.
About this Event

Most professionals don’t burn out because they lack motivation or resilience. They burn out because too much of their energy lives inside systems they don’t control.

This 2-hour workshop reframes stress as a design problem, not a personal failure.

Instead of focusing on stress management techniques, you’ll learn how to design a repeatable container—a structured, self-directed practice that restores agency, clarity, and psychological relief without requiring a career change or lifestyle overhaul.

Using principles from Industrial-Organizational Psychology and behavioral design, participants will:

Identify where stress shows up structurally in their work life
Understand why high performers feel drained even when they’re successful
Design one practical container they can return to weekly
Learn how to reallocate stress into effort they choose and control
Integrate the container without competing with their 9-to-5 role

This is not therapy. It’s not a motivational talk. And it’s not about escaping work.

It’s about building structure that makes pressure survivable—and work more sustainable.

Participants leave with a clear, personal design they can use immediately.

This workshop is educational and reflective in nature and is not a substitute for mental health treatment or psychotherapy.

Agenda
Welcome & Framing (10 minutes)

Info: Set expectations, scope, and boundaries.
Why this workshop focuses on structure—not stress management or therapy.

Part 1: Diagnosing Stress as a System (20 minutes)

Info: Identify where stress shows up structurally in your work life.
Shift from self-blame to pattern recognition.

Part 2: Control & Meaning Mapping (15 minutes)

Info: Map your weekly activities to understand where energy drains occur.
Reveal why high performers feel tired even when things are “going well.”

Part 3: Designing a Personal Container (25 minutes)

Info: Learn what makes a container effective.
Design one repeatable, self-directed practice you fully control.

Part 4: Stress Reallocation (15 minutes)

Info: Understand the difference between imposed stress and chosen effort.
Reframe stress as something to redirect—not eliminate.

Part 5: Integrating with Your 9–5 (25 minutes)

Info: Set boundaries so your container supports your job instead of competing with it.
Prevent the container from becoming another obligation.

Closing Reflection & Takeaways (10 minutes)

Info: Clarify what your job no longer needs to carry.
Leave with a practical design you can use immediately.