Manage stress and motivate yourself

Resources and workshops to build your self-confidence, find your springboard for action, manage the many stressful situations that arise, discover strategies to optimize your resources and bring your projects to fruition.

Gain confidence in your abilities

Whether you're looking to enter the job market or need to give an oral presentation of your career path, take an exam or get organized at work, here are a few useful links:

  • Espace OIP and CIO'SUP workshops: Identify and develop your skills, Improve your public speaking skills, Overcome stress to take action (Grenoble and Valence) View program and register
  • A selection of books to help you work efficiently (memorize, organize, etc.) at the BUs of Grenoble and Valence, to be found in the Beluga search tool.

Understanding stress

It's by improving your understanding of emotions that you'll be able to manage them more effectively. There are many types of stress: from paralyzing stress to well-used stress that boosts your performance. Refine your knowledge and apply methods.

  • Consult the Practical Guide to Stress Management
  • Selections and availability of numerous books on stress management and relaxation, sophrology, meditation... in the BUs: Search for a book
  • health and well-being through sport workshops (for DLST students only) Find out more

Resting

Feeling tired, in need of some peace and quiet? Find a place to get away from it all, take a siesta and feel right at home.

  • Take a musical break in the relaxation room at BU Joseph-Fourier (Grenoble)
  • The Parenthèses room, a bright, soothing, quiet space "just like home" (BU Droit et Lettres, Grenoble) Watch the presentation video
  • La bulle" rest area at the BU Médecine Pharmacie, with its hammocks, poufs, comics and mangas (Grenoble) Take the virtual tour
  • The rest areas at BU Rodolphe Pesce, with poufs, comfort armchairs with footrests, a patio for sunbathing, a DVD player with wireless headphones, and films and series available (Valence) Find out more
  • Consult the Sleep fact sheet

Relaxing

Because managing stress also means knowing how to relax, discover the places where you can relax and the workshops organized on the Grenoble and Valence campuses.
Go to the Relaxing section

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Published February 6, 2024
Updated June 26, 2025