Recognize Stress Quicker
Move Through It Faster
Have More Success
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A Groundbreaking Response to Stress
Are reactions to stressful situations impacting job performance or affecting personal and professional relationships?
Over 100,000 professionals have used Dr. Rob Pennington’s proven methodology to transform the quality of the rest of their lives. Now it’s your turn! Learn the same set of practical tools he has taught to corporations, associations, medical and government agencies to reframe the stress and worry that keeps most people from achieving a greater success than they thought possible.
Calm in the Storm does not simply explain why you feel the way you do. It clearly demonstrates how to recognize your stress quicker and move through it faster, with greater relaxation of body and clarify of mind, producing improved decision-making whenever you confront a challenging situation.
How Does Calm in the Storm Work?
Improve your life on your time with 3-5 minute micro-learning experiences, accessed by any device, any time.
Understand Stress
Stress is dangerous to our health and our careers. We owe it to our family, colleagues, and, most of all, ourselves to better understand stress and navigate it. That starts with learning what happens, physically and chemically, to your body during turbulent times.
Identify Triggers
Discover your triggers and which of your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and habits reinforce a life dominated by stress and fear of the unknown. As Dr. Rob will remind you throughout the course, “What you are unaware of controls you. What you become aware of you can change.”
Respond to Challenges
There’s no such thing as a stress-free life. Unexpected challenges will always arise. But you can learn practical, immediately applicable skills and tools to stay on your feet no matter what life throws your way. Become a more valuable leader, employee, partner, friend, and family member.
What You’ll Learn
Is Calm in the Storm right for you?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of those questions, Calm in the Storm is right for you.
We’re not the only ones talking about the impacts of stress!
This program is based on scientific research by leading health and safety organizations.

Workplaces are the number one cause of stress

120,000 people die each year from work-related stress

Healthcare costs for work-related stress average $190 billion per year

Chronic, routine stress can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and more
Teams we’ve worked with
Improving stress levels in the workplace is important to both employers and employees. These teams have embraced the lessons that Dr. Rob is ready to teach you. To have Dr. Pennington keynote your next meeting, check out: www.DrRobSpeaks.com





Eight Modules, Endless Opportunities
- Module 1: Stress is Normal
- Module 2: It’s The Simple Things
- Module 3: Change or Get Help
- Module 4: Play Well With Others
- Module 5: Succeed Together Despite Stress
- Module 6: Take Your Time
- Module 7: Retrain Your Brain
- Module 8: Learn From Stress
Module 1: Stress is Normal
Transform your habitual, automatic stress reactions by recognizing your stress quicker and moving through it faster in 5 steps that are easy to absorb and immediately apply.
Lesson 1: Shot by an Unknown Assailant
Lesson 2: Resisting Stress is Futile
Lesson 3: The Weight of the World
Lesson 4: Start With Self Awareness
Lesson 5: How Will You React?
Lesson 6: Be Productive No Matter What
Lesson 7: Communicate During Conflict
Lesson 8: The Rest of Your Life Awaits!
Module 2: It’s The Simple Things
Build positive habits, based on a series of simple practical tools, that produce a more proactive response to stress throughout your day.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: It’s Not About Diet & Exercise!
Lesson 2: Slow Down, Get More Done
Lesson 3: Be Profoundly Relaxed
Lesson 4: Clean Your Brain Every Night
Lesson 5: Find More Time To Relax
Lesson 6: Do What You Love Every Day
Lesson 7: Master Positive Habits
Lesson 8: Progress, Not Perfection
Module 3: Change or Get Help
Apply the insight “the opposite of every worry is a goal” by using a 4 step process for turning worries into action plans, and when that is not sufficient, knowing help is always available.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: You’ll Heart This Exercise
Lesson 2: Is Your Imagination Running Wild?
Lesson 3: Trust Me, We’re All Worried
Lesson 4: Reality vs Fantasy
Lesson 5: The Unknown Creates New Possibilities
Lesson 6: From Negative Thoughts to Productive Ones
Lesson 7: Read Your Own Mind
Lesson 8: Help is Always Available
Module 4: Play Well With Others
Overcome resistance to your ideas through a series of simple but powerful communication techniques that eliminate the majority of conflict at work and at home.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: How Caffeine Works
Lesson 2: It Feels Personal…But It’s Not!
Lesson 3: How to Disagree Respectfully
Lesson 4: Reduce Resistance to Your Ideas
Lesson 5: Overcome Communication Breakdowns
Lesson 6: What Those People are Really Saying
Lesson 7: De-escalate Any Conflict
Lesson 8: 6 Stages to Supportive Agreements
Module 5: Succeed Despite Stress
Reduce the stress of decision making with clearer agreements about how influence is shared, decisions are made and priorities are clarified, as well as how to responsibly ask your boss for help when needed.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: Drinking Enough Water?
Lesson 2: Increase Emotional Intelligence
Lesson 3: Better Decision Making
Lesson 4: Embrace a Hybrid Team
Lesson 5: Prioritize, Don’t Agonize
Lesson 6: When to Ask Your Boss for Help
Lesson 7: What’s Your Conflict Style?
Lesson 8: Diplomacy is Delightful
Module 6: Take Your Time
Get more important tasks done in less time through a series of proven tricks to stay on track; respectfully say, “No”; and implement THE most important time decision.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: Time is on Your Side When You’re Organized
Lesson 2: Reach Your Goals in Record Time
Lesson 3: How Urgent Is It, Really?
Lesson 4: Tricks to Staying on Track
Lesson 5: Respectfully Say “No”
Lesson 6: The Most Important Time Decision
Lesson 7: Best Perspectives For Better Time Management
Lesson 8: Time Is A State of Mind
Module 7: Retrain Your Brain
Develop habits that focus your mind while energizing your body to produce more creative results, especially in stressful situations.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: Get Moving!
Lesson 2: Relax your Body and Mind
Lesson 3: Stay Focused on Success
Lesson 4: Begin At the End
Lesson 5: Focus on the Positive
Lesson 6: Be Present
Lesson 7: The Cycle of Creativity
Lesson 8: Do What You’re Doing…or Stop Doing It!
Module 8: Learn From Stress
View stress as evidence of an unlearned lesson leading to results better than you imagined possible, allowing you to habitually experience being Calm in the Storm.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: Smile for No Reason
Lesson 2: Put Stress in a Positive Light
Lesson 3: Really Caring For Yourself
Lesson 4: Choose to Feel What You Feel
Lesson 5: Build a Big Support System
Lesson 6: Make Only Supportive Agreements
Lesson 7: Build a Life of Positive Habits
Lesson 8: Be the Calm in the Storm
- Module 1: Stress is Normal
- Module 2: It’s The Simple Things
- Module 3: Change or Get Help
- Module 4: Play Well With Others
- Module 5: Succeed Despite Stress
- Module 6: Take Your Time
- Module 7: Retrain Your Brain
- Module 8: Learn From Stress
Transform your habitual, automatic stress reactions by recognizing your stress quicker and moving through it faster in 5 steps that are easy to absorb and immediately apply.
Lesson 1: Shot by an Unknown Assailant
Lesson 2: Resisting Stress is Futile
Lesson 3: The Weight of the World
Lesson 4: Start With Self Awareness
Lesson 5: How Will You React?
Lesson 6: Be Productive No Matter What
Lesson 7: Communicate During Conflict
Lesson 8: The Rest of Your Life Awaits!
Build positive habits, based on a series of simple practical tools, that produce a more proactive response to stress throughout your day.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: It’s Not About Diet & Exercise!
Lesson 2: Slow Down, Get More Done
Lesson 3: Be Profoundly Relaxed
Lesson 4: Clean Your Brain Every Night
Lesson 5: Find More Time To Relax
Lesson 6: Do What You Love Every Day
Lesson 7: Master Positive Habits
Lesson 8: Progress, Not Perfection
Apply the insight “the opposite of every worry is a goal” by using a 4 step process for turning worries into action plans, and when that is not sufficient, knowing help is always available.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: You’ll Heart This Exercise
Lesson 2: Is Your Imagination Running Wild?
Lesson 3: Trust Me, We’re All Worried
Lesson 4: Reality vs Fantasy
Lesson 5: The Unknown Creates New Possibilities
Lesson 6: From Negative Thoughts to Productive Ones
Lesson 7: Read Your Own Mind
Lesson 8: Help is Always Available
Overcome resistance to your ideas through a series of simple but powerful communication techniques that eliminate the majority of conflict at work and at home.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: How Caffeine Works
Lesson 2: It Feels Personal…But It’s Not!
Lesson 3: How to Disagree Respectfully
Lesson 4: Reduce Resistance to Your Ideas
Lesson 5: Overcome Communication Breakdowns
Lesson 6: What Those People are Really Saying
Lesson 7: De-escalate Any Conflict
Lesson 8: 6 Stages to Supportive Agreements
Reduce the stress of decision making with clearer agreements about how influence is shared, decisions are made and priorities are clarified, as well as how to responsibly ask your boss for help when needed.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: Drinking Enough Water?
Lesson 2: Increase Emotional Intelligence
Lesson 3: Better Decision Making
Lesson 4: Embrace a Hybrid Team
Lesson 5: Prioritize, Don’t Agonize
Lesson 6: When to Ask Your Boss for Help
Lesson 7: Navigate Different Types of Conflict
Lesson 8: Diplomacy is Delightful
Get more important tasks done in less time through a series of proven tricks to stay on track; respectfully say, “No”; and implement THE most important time decision.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: Time is on Your Side When You’re Organized
Lesson 2: Reach Your Goals in Record Time
Lesson 3: How Urgent Is It, Really?
Lesson 4: Tricks to Staying on Track
Lesson 5: Respectfully Say “No”
Lesson 6: The Most Important Time Decision
Lesson 7: Best Perspectives For Better Time Management
Lesson 8: Time Is A State of Mind
Develop habits that focus your mind while energizing your body to produce more creative results, especially in stressful situations.
Lesson 1: Stress Tip: Get Moving!
Lesson 2: Relax your Body and Mind
Lesson 3: Stay Focused on Success
Lesson 4: Begin At the End
Lesson 5: Focus on the Positive
Lesson 6: Be Present
Lesson 7: The Cycle of Creativity
Lesson 8: Do What You’re Doing…or stop doing it!

Lesson 1: Stress Tip: Smile for No Reason
Lesson 2: Put Stress in a Positive Light
Lesson 3: Really Caring For Yourself
Lesson 4: You Control How You Feel (still need to figure out this lesson)
Lesson 5: Build a Big Support System
Lesson 6: Seek Out Supportive Agreements
Lesson 7: Choose a Life of Positive Habits
Lesson 8: Be the Calm in the Storm
Rob Pennington, Ph.D., is an educational psychologist with decades of experience providing practical tools for improving the performance of leaders and teams through a better balance of authority and collaboration. A graduate of the APA-approved Counseling Psychology program at the University of Texas at Austin, trained in organizational development through the National Training Laboratory (NTL), Dr. Rob is also a former faculty member of three universities and an award-winning author. His most recent book, Find the Upside of the Down Times, was a major influence on this course. Learn more about Rob and his business partner Stephen here.
