Paula Amarales

Stress: The Salt of Creativity

In radical times, we’ve experienced higher amounts of stress daily. For some of us, it has helped to develop creative answers to emerging situations. For others, it has caused blockage, depression, and damage to our relationships and to ourselves. We’ve all heard stories about how a peak level of stress was required to solve an otherwise unsolvable challenge. However, stressful cultures also create stagnation in organizations that become paralyzed. And, in the other extreme, careless, flat environments also create paralyzed and reactive to change organizations. Stress seems like salt in food: too little is dull, too much is inedible. And every person needs a different amount.

In this workshop, we will explore our stress and understand how to manage it as an element of radical creativity deliberately.

Three takeaways the audience will get from attending this session:

  • Understand the stress continuum and experiment with how much is enough for everyone.
  • Identify and apply the difference between “good and bad” stress and how it appears daily.
  • Craft a map of their stress: what is helping, what is hindering, and how to manage it to develop our creativity.

Paulas’ Bio

Paula is a clinical psychologist and family therapist with 30 years of experience from a systemic perspective. Today she is the director of the Personal Development Center of Alberto Hurtado University, which is dedicated to the personal development and mental health care of university students. In her quest to incorporate an integrative view of the human being that contributes to their well-being, she has worked on issues of self-care and stress management, including techniques from kundalini yoga such as breathing, meditation and body awareness.

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