The document discusses balancing work and life to reduce stress and promote well-being. It covers stress responses in the body, various concepts of stress from a medical, psychological, and public health perspective. Threat rigidity and viewing stress as a challenge are discussed. The importance of work-life balance programs, such as flexible work conditions and childcare benefits, are covered as they can reduce burnout by 50% and expand employee discretion and support. Lastly, eliciting the relaxation response is mentioned as a way to lower blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate and metabolism to reduce stress.

1. WORK LIFE BALANCING
from distress to eustress Henry Does, M.D.

2. Overview
• Expectations
• Collecting attention
• Lecture/ Q & A
• Eliciting the Relaxation Response
• Evaluation

3. Stress response
• Redirection blood
• Heightened alertness
• Glucose/fatty acids 
• Immunesystem/digestion 

4. Stress concept (medical) A
• Fight-or-flight (Canon, 1915)
• General adaptation
syndrome, GAS (Selye,
1932,1976)
Walther Bradford Canon
Hans Selye

5. Stress concept (psychological) B.
• Role conflict and ambiguity
(Kahn et al, 1964)
• Cognitive appraisal and coping
(Lazarus et al, 1967)
• Ego ideal – self-image
(Levinson, 1975)
• Employee character strengths
(Wright, Huang, 2008)

6. Stress concept (public health) C.
Preventive Stress Management in Organizations, second edition, 2012

7. Threat rigidity
• Restricted information flow
• Constriction of control

8. Stress as challenge
• Positivity ratio: 3/1
• http://www.positivityratio.com

9. Work-life/ Home-life
• Workaholism  intimacy
• Work/information overload
(24/7)
• Leisure time (play) >
resilience

10. Work life programs
• Flexible working conditions
• Leave options
• Child- and dependent care
benefits
• Pro-family organizational culture
• Worksite wellness/assistance
programs

11. Why work-life programs?
• Expands discretion and control
• Offer support
(life-skill educational programs)

12. Effectiveness work-life programs
• 50% lesser burnout and distress
(Cascio, 2011)

13. Presence
Marlies Witjes

14. The Relaxation Response
• Muscles relax
• Heart beats slower
• Blood pressure decreases
• Breathing becomes slower
• Metabolism decreases
• Nitric oxide increases
http://www.massgeneral.org/bhi/basics/eliciting_rr.aspx

15. Thank you
WORK LIFE BALANCING
from distress to eustress Henry Does, M.D.