Occupational Stress Management Stress is uncomfortable physical and psychological strain caused by a person’s inability to cope with a given situation The most widely regarded explanation model of stress today, is the transactional model. This model defines stress as occurring when there is a persistent imbalance between demands and resources or potential of the individual concerned. Content and Approach We advise our clients to take a form of retreat for one to three days depending the circumstances. At the beginning of the retreat, we take the clients through the first part of a brief review of the theory of stress and stress management to acquaint the clients with the various symptoms of occupational stress and its potential causes. The brief review of the theory of stress management helps the client to develop tools to analyse the situation in their own work environment and establish the level of occupational stress and it causes. The analysis is done at three levels, namely; the individual, the group and the organisational levels. The analysis also deals with “burnout” as one of the extreme degrees of occupational stress. After the analysis, the clients are taken through a second session of the theory of the management of stress focusing on discussing mechanisms at individual, group and organisation levels for reducing / minimising stressors in one’s own work habits and in the work environment as well as mechanisms for coping with stress. In the last phase of the retreat, the clients develop an action plan containing a number of measures that need be taken to reduce / minimise the stressors in their work habits, in the way they relate to one another and in the organisational set-up as a whole. They also discuss and develop a set of stress coping mechanisms they would like to put in practice after the retreat.