Pressure - Proof Master Class

Stress getting UNCs level?

You protest. You study. You hustle. You show up.

 

But when the pressure hits, your mind goes: “Bro! What’s Happening?” The nervousness. The overthinking. The jittery feeling. The pressure to perform. The feeling that everything is suddenly too much.

 

You don’t need to escape pressure. You need to learn how to handle it.

Pressure-Proof is a practical 2-hour masterclass designed to help students understand and manage stress, pressure and nervousness—without letting them take over.

Because being pressure-proof doesn’t mean never feeling stressed. It means knowing what to do when stress shows up.

Who is the Group for?

You are a student who:

 
😵‍💫 Feels overwhelmed by academic or personal pressure

You are a student who: ​

 

😬 Gets jittery or nervous when something important is coming up

You are a student who: ​

 

🧠 Finds yourself stuck in overthinking

You are a student who: ​

 

📚 Is trying to balance studies, activism, relationships and life

Goals of the Master Class

  • Understand your stress response — recognise what’s happening to you when you’re stressed.
  • Manage nervousness — learn what to do when things start feeling intense.
  • Break overthinking cycles — identify and interrupt unhelpful patterns.
  • Regain focus — find your way back when your mind feels scattered.
  • Build emotional steadiness — develop a more grounded response to pressure.
  • Respond instead of react — learn to have more control over how you respond when pressure shows up.

Glimpse of the Master Class

A live, timed exercise puts the room in a real moment of pressure — not a hypothetical one — before anything is taught.

Understand the early body/mind signals of stress, before they escalate. Build a 30-second self-check you can run anywhere.

A live, physical exercise separating “what happened” from “what it means about me” — the core shift behind lasting composure under pressure.

Build your own smallest, most repeatable reset — the one you’d still do on your worst day.

Learn and practice a simple script for saying “I’m stretched” before it becomes a bigger problem — rehearsed live.

Leave with a personal, filled-in booklet of all 4 tools — built during the session, not summarized after it.

Meet your Facilitator

Falguni

Falguni Chaturvedi

Relevant Expertise: School Counselling, Organisational Development Facilitation, Academic Research in Psychology

Affiliation: Clinical team, Catalyst Psyche Inc.

  • PhD Scholar, Psychology — Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
  • UGC-NET Qualified, Psychology (94th Percentile)
  • MA Applied Psychology — Amity University, Noida
  • BA Psychology — Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi

Falguni is a counselling psychologist and PhD scholar whose work sits at the intersection of academic research and real, on-the-ground practice. Her background spans school counselling, where she worked directly with students navigating academic pressure, and organisational development facilitation, where she’s helped groups build practical, usable frameworks for handling stress and change.

Through Catalyst Psyche Inc., Falguni brings that same practical, no-fluff approach to the Pressure-Proof Masterclass — designing a session that treats students and young people as capable of handling real tools, not just being told to “stay calm.”

Interested in multiple groups?

• Understand ADHD, its symptoms, and how it shows up in daily life.
• Learn about the ADHD brain and emotional regulation.
• Set realistic personal goals and track your progress.
• Build structure and routines that actually work for you.
• Improve time management and planning skills.
• Strengthen executive functioning — focus, organization, and follow-through.
• Manage impulsivity and reduce risk-taking behaviours.
• Develop mindfulness and attention control strategies.
• Communicate more clearly and confidently in relationships.
• Recognize emotional triggers and handle stress better.
• Build healthy self-esteem and self-compassion around ADHD.
• Create an ongoing self-care and support plan for life after the group.

FAQs

It is designed for students and young people who want to become better at handling stress, pressure and nervousness. It may be especially useful if you feel overwhelmed by academic or personal pressure, get nervous when something important is coming up, struggle with overthinking, or find it difficult to slow down.

The masterclass is a 2-hour practical session, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

You’ll learn practical ways to understand your stress response, manage nervousness, break overthinking cycles, regain focus, build emotional steadiness and respond to pressure more effectively.

The masterclass is designed as a small-group session with limited seats .

After completing the registration, you’ll receive confirmation and the masterclass details. You will get the master class joining details in a follow up mails 3 days before the scheduled date. You can then show up with your questions, experiences and real-life situations involving pressure.

No. The masterclass focuses on practical ways to understand and manage your response to pressure, rather than simply telling you to stay calm.

Just keep a notebook/pen and a quiet space.