Abstract
This study examined the effectiveness of a stress management workshop in reducing stress and increasing the aptitude for building social networks. The workshop used relaxation techniques, de-stressing to prepare oneself to understand the context of situational stress, importance of awareness, explicit building of social networks within groups, and applied stress management techniques to decrease participant stress and increase aptitude for establishing social networks. Secondary data from the 22 workshop participants was analyzed and the following conclusions were reached from the study. All participants scored moderate to high level of stress as indicated by the scores on the stress checklist. The study findings indicated that there was a medium negative correlation between the stress scores and the participants’ rating of the usefulness of the stress management workshop. Participants perceived the workshop as effective with a mean workshop effectiveness of 4.1818. Participants were informed that a score of 1 means not at all helpful and a score of 5 means very helpful.