Mental Fitness

Self-paced

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Course Instructor

Steve Wize, LCSW

Instructor Bio

Steve Wize, president and founder of Mental Fitness, LLC., is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Executive Life Coach, and Professional Speaker who specializes in helping companies and individuals reach their full potential. After graduating with his master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Steve went on to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has spent the past seven years working in private practice. During this time, Steve designed his own unique curriculum which he has used to create his upcoming book, and his business, Mental Fitness, LLC. Steve believes that every person has the potential for improvement in their lives, regardless of their backgrounds or current circumstances. By utilizing a non-judgmental, solution-focused approach, Steve helps clients to master their mental fitness and achieve their full potential.

Credit Hours

24 Hours of Social Work Continuing Education

Target Audience

Licensed social workers and/or other mental health professionals

 

 

Course Level

Beginner

Course Overview

During this training course, participants will gain an understanding of how to develop their mental fitness to reach their goals. Through videos, discussions, case examples, and reflective exercises, participants will learn about the meaning of mental fitness, how to identify and replace the phrases that are toxic to our mental health, practice strategies for relabeling and mastering our emotions, learn techniques to mentally reframe stress as a positive challenge, examine forms of misjudgment lead to misperceptions and lifetime limitations, review the five steps to assertive communication and the most important predictors of healthy or unhealthy relationships and strategies for healthy living. Participants will be challenged to create their own mental mantra’s, to identify their top values and value discrepancies, to create personal goals, and to apply leadership strategies in their work and personal lives.

Course Objectives

Module 1: What is Mental Fitness?

·       Learn the number of thoughts per day, what percentage are reoccurring, and what percentage are negative 

·       Practice noticing one’s thoughts as conditioning rather than as a reflection of self   

 Module 2: The Seven Deadly Phrases

·       Provide a specific example of negative thinking and articulate how negative thinking relates to unhealthy eating habits.  

·       Reframe negative thinking with strategies from the training

Module 3: Mastering Emotions

·       Learn and practice all seven steps of mastering emotions  

·       Identify ways in which trying to resist, reduce, or eliminate our emotional state exacerbates that feeling rather than diminishing it or using it to one’s advantage  

 

 

 

Module 4: Using Stress to your Advantage

·       Understand how trying to reduce, manage, or eliminate stress fails at its core because of its incorrect labeling of stress itself  

·       Learn three specific strategies to counter negative automatically conditioned stressful thoughts with better questions and outlooks  

Module 5: Removing Judgement

·       Identify the levels of removing judgment   

·       Identify strategies at each level to combat judgment and increase understanding and compassion  

Module 6: Bringing Out the Best in Others

·       Identify the 4 types of responses and how to respond to each  

·       Identify the 4 tendencies of personality and articulate why they matter when bringing out the best in others  

Module 7: Improving Relationships

·       Apply the 7 principles for making marriage work and 5 love languages in relationships outside of intimate relationships  

·       Apply the 7 tips for succession relationships to one’s own relationships

Module 8: Mental Mantras

·       Recognize the importance of mental mantras for one’s self talk and inner motivation  

·       Identify why and how mental mantras can be used in therapeutic or coaching situations with clients  

Module 9: Finding Meaning and Purpose

·       Complete a value exercise examining why a particular value was chosen, what it means to the participant, and how you act out that value in your life

·       Identify any value discrepancies or conflicts  

Module 10: The Ten Principles of Goal Setting

·       Apply the 10 principles to a personal goal  

·       Create 10 goals for living out the values based on the top 10 values identified in module 9

 

Module 11: Healthy Living

·       Complete a wellness wheel assessment for a snap-shot of one’s current life balance  

·       Create a concrete goal for better sleep, diet, and exercise  

Module 12: Leadership

·       Identify “everyday heroes” in one’s life that inspire you 

·       List ways in which you can use your own personal example (living a life consistent with their values) to inspire others