"People love The Fear Course"

What to expect on the day

"The best workshop I have been on" GR Lecturer Reading University

The Fear Course is anything but scary. It is run in a very gentle, humorous and human way.

"I have been to a lot of staff development days here but this has been the most useful and enjoyable. Every member of staff should do this" FG Oxford

The thing that frequently holds people back, restricting their success and affects working lives more than any other issue are negative emotions like fear, nerves and anxieties.

This unique, positive and compelling one-day workshop shows people how to deal with their negative emotions quickly and effectively and acquire valuable emotional resilience when they need it.

"I want you to know that my first lecture after the workshop went swimmingly. I wasn't nervous at all. I can't thank you enough." MR Birmingham

We run The Fear Course in a number of organisations and  the organisers tell us that The Fear Course is the most popular event they run. It usually has long waiting lists after the first event has run.

"Everyone should do this course - amazing" NT Researcher Manchester University

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What happens - The Programme

Part 1

In the first part of the morning you will discover what happens when we get scared and why people suffer from fear, anxiety and nerves.

"The stuff about fear in the morning was facinating. I had no idea fear could be so interesting!" Dan Grewcock - York.

Part 2

Then you will start to find out what triggers your own fears and nerves. Everyone is different and everyone has their own triggers. People are almost always suprised about what their personal triggers are.

"When we did the triggers I was thinking like 'Well I know what triggers my fear - it's public speaking'. How wrong was I? I was really amazed when I found my triggers. It all makes so much sense now." Carly Johnstone - London

Part 3

The rest of the day is then taken up with learning the techniqies for killing your triggers, exactly how to reduce fear, anxiety, nerves and even panic attacks. You will go away with a complete toolkit of fear busting techniques, every single one of which work. Most of the techniques work immediatly and you will feel them working as you do them. Everything we teach on the workshop is 100% natural and can be done by anyone anywhere. The techniques are powerful and have helped 1000's of people deal with their nerves around the world.

"For me I was only going to be convinced once I saw the techniques. I have to say I am impressed. They have really helped me. They are quick, sensible and best of all anyone can do them." Lizzy Waters - Washington

The day is very interactive and we keep the numbers of participants low which means that you will be able to have your questions answered and get some personal attention from the tutors.

Other things to know about the day and what to bring.

1. Dress is casual. Please make sure that you are comfortable.
2. Bring a pen and a smile
   
3. You will be provided with a playbook which also acts as a reference
4. It is a fun, interesting and useful day. Everyone enjoys it.
5. On the public course we provide tea and coffee but you need to get your own lunch (we always hold the courses close to food getting places) or bring your own. (see Why is the cost of the course so reasonable?)
6. On most (not all) corporate or organisational events the organisers provide lunch. Please check with your organiser.

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You might also like to read:

• How it works: The secret behind the Fear Course
• I am a bit worried about doing the course
• Articles and notes
• The blog
• FAQ's

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Feedback from participants includes the following comments:
"The Fear Course has given me my life back. Thank you."
"Does what it says on the tin."
"A very relaxed and relaxing course that sets just the right atmosphere."
"It works!"
"This has without doubt been one of the best courses I have attended."
"Just thank you."

Feedback from Staff Developers / organisers include:

"We have filled the course in just two days, could we have some more dates please?"

"The feedback is excellent"

"We would like to book the course once a term from now on and also would like to ask you if you could run one every year for our new lecturing staff on the PGCHE. Your course has one of the highest feedback ratings.."

"I came on the first course and I was really impressed. The staff who came on it have been raving about it ever since. Could you send us some dates for next year. I think we have enough interest to put one on a term for the foreseeable future."

"We need some more dates from you. Ever since the course you ran last month the waiting list has exploded. I think it is now the longest waiting list we have."

How the Fear Course works: The fear course works by showing you how to use what you already have.

Many people don't realise that they have everything they need to be able to achieve exquisite control over their own emotions; that they do not have to be the victims of their emotions.  I just show them how to use what they have naturally in a natural way.

An example

You know those times when you are about to go somewhere new or do something and you get anxious or nervous about it, like going on holiday to a foreign country for the first time, or moving to a new neighbourhood, or a new job for instance? The anxiety can build to quite a pitch over some considerable time.
And then once you have done that thing you find that your fears aren't realised. That it is quite okay or even enjoyable. The fears then just disappear somehow.  Naturally, without you having to do anything. This process of the fears decreasing naturally is known as ‘dishabituation though experience'.

So if you have a fear of flying or a fear of public speaking or any other fear one way to deal with it is keep doing it. Eventually, the more you do it, you will get over the fear. It will naturally dishabituate.

A big problem

The problem is that this takes time, often a long time and it means you have to keep feeling the fear as you go through the process and one bad or even mildly bad experience can make the fear worse again, making the process even longer.

Years of Research

When I ran a department at Cranfield University one of my jobs was to train disaster managers and emergency service leaders around the world. As a result of this I needed to find out what it was that really good disaster managers have that average and poor ones don't have. To cut a long story very short the main differentiating factor is emotional resilience.

This meant I had to work out how to help disaster managers and emergency leaders develop emotional resilience. This led to a four-year project to discover the techniques involved. These techniques were collected from around the world, tested, tweaked and tested again until we had them just right.

Criteria to include a technique on the course

I set five very strict criteria for inclusion of techniques on the course. These were and still are:

1.    The techniques have to be able to be done by the individuals themselves.
2.    They have to work quickly, within seconds.
3.    They have to work in the moment in the field. No equipment, extra resources, books or difficult instructions are allowed. These people do not have time in the middle of a disaster to go and lie down in a darkened room or see a therapist to deal with their fears and anxieties. We need techniques anyone can do anywhere at any time, even in the middle of a task.
4.    The techniques had to be robust and work in the most exacting circumstances.
5.    They have to be able to deal with some deep-rooted fears.

Many of the finest disaster managers and emergency service leaders around the world have been taught these techniques.

Speeding up a natural fear reduction process.

What I hadn't realised at the time was I had set the criteria for speeding up natural processes for reducing or dishabituating fear, anxiety and even panic, which is what I discovered; how to help the brain and body speed up the dishabituation process. In many cases this can be done in seconds. There is one exception which is a very powerful technique I invented through trial and error to dishabituate fear triggers permanently. This does take a month to completely disable deep seated fear triggers but starts to work immediately. All the other techniques work at once.

Toolkit for you

The whole collection of techniques gives people a unique and very powerful toolkit of fear killing techniques, which are now used, around the world. What do is show you how to speed up what happens naturally over time without the pain keep on having to do hundreds of job interviews, driving tests or flights for examples. It is a series of very natural processes, which are easily mastered to create a very powerful toolkit you can use whenever and where ever you need.