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Create Space: Dealing With Workplace Stress

The pace and demands of modern working life are incessant, and it is common for us to blame the long hours, endless deadlines, overflowing inboxes, difficult working relationships and other issues at work or home that accompany these responsibilities as the source of our stress and anxiety. It isn’t. Instead, it is the thoughts, beliefs, feelings and judgments we have about the demands of our work and home life that cause us to suffer. So, if we can learn to Create Space between us and the overworked, anxious mind then we give ourselves far more capacity to shape our experience and enjoyment of life. Over 10 days, using simple but powerful meditation techniques including mindfulness, affirmation, visualisation, relaxation and Yoga Nidra, you will learn how to create this much needed mental space. Leaving you feeling calm and in control at work, able to process and reframe challenging thoughts and situations and with a far greater sense of joy and contentment with life as it is.

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Meet your Teacher

The StillPoint

Sydney NSW, Australia

Having experienced first-hand the transformative power of meditation in helping to overcome chronic health issues, Deb brings a wealth of knowledge to her teaching and a passion for sharing that with her students. Deb left the corporate world behind in 2013 to start her corporate wellness business, The StillPoint and to dedicate herself to teaching full time. In the space of a few years, Deb has become one of the most well respected and listened to meditation teachers in the world. Offering a variety of meditation styles to suit all levels of experience, Deb’s soothing voice and easy to follow practices leave students feeling calm, refreshed and revitalized.

10 Days

10.3k students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

Performance

English

Lesson 1

Calming Beach Visualisation

Today’s session is an introduction to the importance of Creating Space, and the benefits of doing so. When we’re overwhelmed with work related stress and anxiety the mind simply shuts down. In this state of contraction there is little point trying to concentrate on something other than our worries, we’re just too full. First, we need to create some much needed space within, and that is the focus of this session. After briefly outlining what you can expect from this course, you are then guided through a beautiful, relaxing beach visualisation leaving you feeling much calmer, more spacious and ready for the practices of the coming days.

Lesson 2

Mindfulness Of The Body

Today is our first foray into mindfulness, one of the foundations of this course and a technique we will return to again and again. In this session we begin to understand what the practice of mindfulness entails, and what some of the benefits are. The entry point of our mindfulness training today is the body. During this practice you gently rotate your awareness throughout the body noticing and allowing what arises as you do so. Because when the thinking mind is fully absorbed in the body and the moment, it creates the conditions for stillness and spaciousness to arise elsewhere.

Lesson 3

Mindfulness Of The Breath

Today we build on the mindfulness skills we started to develop yesterday. In this session we begin to understand the impact our breath has on our health, wellbeing, levels of stress and performance at work. Then we use a simple mindfulness of the breath practice to keep us anchored in the moment rather than lost in the worries of the mind.

Lesson 4

Creating Space For Positivity

In this session we combine the body scan and breath awareness practices from the last two days into the one meditation. We also add a layer to our practice by beginning to reframe the negative thoughts and mindset that can plague us when we’re consumed by worries over work. We do this by using breath and body to guide us into a state of relaxed attentiveness. Then we plant the seeds of our intention deep within the subconscious mind, paving the way for a more positive and spacious mindset going forward.

Lesson 5

Forest Visualization

By now we understand that our thoughts have a direct impact on how well or otherwise we feel, on our levels of stress and our performance at work. So what is it you predominantly think about, have you noticed? Is the conversation you’re having with yourself each day at work kind, helpful or productive? Yesterday’s session helped reframe the mindset to one that is more positive. Today we simply want to notice the mind as it is. This practice combines our mindfulness techniques with a calming visualisation to help us relax, observe our thoughts and then gently let them go to create space within.

Lesson 6

Mindfulness Of The Breath Part 2

Today we revisit our mindfulness of the breath meditation. It’s important we practice this technique again and again so it becomes ingrained to call on it when stressed and anxious. We may not always have time during our busy working day to return to our beach, forest or do a full body scan. But no matter where we are and what we’re doing, we can always breathe mindfully, and thus instantaneously transform how we’re feeling and responding to whatever is in front of us.

Lesson 7

Creating Space Through Gratitude

Given the rapid pace of working life it is all too easy to become future focused - obsessing over what we’re missing, what comes next, what we think we need in order to be happy and fulfilled. We’ve forgotten how to truly live in and appreciate the here and now. And as a result, our levels of job satisfaction and enjoyment of life are at record lows. Today’s gratitude meditation helps retrain the mind to notice the abundance in our life, and to embody a state of contentment and joy with life as it is, rather than how we think it should be.

Lesson 8

Healing Through Loving Kindness

The quality of our relationships with our colleagues, loved ones and ourselves can be a huge source of stress in life. And when we’re overwhelmed at work this is only exacerbated. In today’s session we use Metta or Loving Kindness meditation to heal and bring balance to our relationships and create space within.

Lesson 9

Using Mindfulness To Transform

Our thoughts and feelings about past traumatic events don’t just live on in the mind, they also get stored in the body. So we can utilise our mindful awareness of the body to process these experiences. By learning to lean into the sensations that accompany our memories then bring our relaxed attentiveness to what feelings, thoughts and memories lie beneath these sensations we may notice they shift into something less potent, or even release altogether. And with practice we build our capacity to sit with uncomfortable or challenging situations, rather than suppressing or avoiding.

Lesson 10

Yoga Nidra For Relaxation & Stress Management

Today we close out our time together with a relaxing Yoga Nidra practice, bringing together all the elements we’ve been practicing over the last 9 days into the one meditation. Yoga Nidra combines the power of intention setting with breath awareness, body scan and visualisation to guide the body and mind into a profound state of rest and relaxation with eyes closed. When practiced regularly, Yoga Nidra has also been shown to be highly effective in creating the conditions for lasting change and transformation to occur with eyes open.

Ask your teacher

This course includes 97 community questions and 26 audio replies from The StillPoint. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Louise

December 22, 2025

Really enjoyed this course and it’s helped me see a lot more perspective in my working life. I plan to repeat this course in the future. Thankyou!

una

February 28, 2025

Wonderful course. Deb is gifted.

Shannon

July 18, 2024

Absolutely loved the course! Thank you so much for creating some peace in my day 💗

Kim

February 24, 2024

I found this very beneficial and plan on continuing using the techniques I learned!

Karin

October 30, 2023

Thank you for this great reset 😀

Emma

September 29, 2023

I felt very held and supported in your guidance. The content was fantastic and you delivered it at a good pace and with expertise. These are tools I will come back to and will help me manage the stress from work and life. Thank you 💖

Victor

August 22, 2023

Engaging and verybrelax tone of voice made my experience deeper and satisfactory. Thanks so much

Vance

July 30, 2023

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Letitia

July 8, 2023

I like the combination of different tools I can use to manage my emotions in my work life. I work at a major Hospital in Atlanta and it can be

Denise

July 4, 2023

Such a wonderful calming and cantering voice , I was able to really experience the visualisations , thank you❤️

Mike

June 27, 2023

Loved the skills building throughout and how to be present despite work stress. Thank you!

Shanaka

June 24, 2023

Great *****

Leah

June 17, 2023

Perfect way to start my day!

Rosa

May 31, 2023

Dianne

May 13, 2023

What a wonderful course and journey. I enjoyed each day. I learned some techniques and reinforced others that I will use to manage stress and bring calm to challenging moments. Thank you for your soothing and gentle guidance. I will return to this course again. ✨🕊️🙏

Janice

March 25, 2023

Amazing, thank you.

Jane

February 16, 2023

Excellent course content, brilliantly delivered. A great balance of teaching and practice. Thank you 🙏

Elle

January 26, 2023

A good course in progressive skills and practices. But relating it to the work place was a very weak link so the title could be considered misleading. It's more general Life skill building vs workplace specific so it missed that mark for me.

Joy

November 29, 2022

I’ve loved this practical course, how it acknowledges various aspects of workplace tension and introduces methods of relaxation in the midst of it. Each session was so relaxing, I often fell asleep in the middle! I will need to go back and listen again to catch the bits only my subconscious heard!

Nicholas

March 23, 2022

Practical tools that you can implement right now to improve your how we deal with stress. Thank you! 🙏🏻 🙏🏻

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