SRESS AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Course Unit: Stress and Conflict Management

Stress and Conflict Management is an essential course designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and spiritual sensitivity needed to help individuals and groups navigate stress and resolve conflicts in healthy, transformative ways. This unit blends psychological understanding, counselling principles, and spiritual perspectives to offer a holistic approach to inner and relational peace.

The course explores the causes, symptoms, and effects of stress and conflict at personal, family, workplace, and community levels. Students learn how unmanaged stress can contribute to emotional imbalance, misunderstandings, and broken relationships. Through integrated spiritual counselling approaches, learners are guided to understand how personal values, faith practices, and spiritual awareness can promote healing, clarity, and reconciliation.

Key areas of study include stress assessment, coping mechanisms, emotional regulation, communication skills, anger management, negotiation techniques, forgiveness, and mediation practices. The course emphasizes inner calmness, empathy, compassionate listening, and non-violent communication as essential tools for a spiritually grounded counsellor.

Practical sessions, case studies, and reflective exercises help students apply these principles both personally and professionally. By the end of the course, learners are able to guide clients toward peaceful conflict resolution, healthier stress responses, and deepened spiritual resilience.