The Padi No Fear Diving Specialty Course

[Differenttherapy.com]

Let me explain it like this....
Fear is one topic here & in the No Fear Diving course ...
Fear is an emotion that many... nearly all divers have experienced... like other emotions....
Emotions are very individual... & this is also the therm of the No Fear Diving course ...

like I said: Personally, Individually and customer-centricity are the attributes of the No Fear Diving course.

This means.... It´s your individual course ... you as a Client decide witch personal emotion will be the the topic of your client centerd scuba course....

Do you know any other scuba course dealing with "Emotions" of divers in a way like this????

Please let me know....

 

[Diver0001]

I simply do not believe that someone can have a true phobia of water, get convinced they actually don't, and still perform safely underwater if it hits the fan.

Then you don't believe that it's possible to recover from a mental illness. The whole point of this kind of counselling is to achieve an attenuation of the fear, not to "brainwash" someone into thinking that the fear isn't there. You're thinking it's impossible to get off having a "hair trigger" once you've had one for whatever reason but I think you're just showcasing that you have no idea what you're talking about.

Personally, I think I'd rather dive with someone who has confronted their fears and is fully in tune with their comfort zone than I would with some muppet who just jumps into the water completely unaware of what they can and cannot handle. If you ask me, the most dangerous divers are the ones who don't understand that *everyone* has a breaking point.

R..

 

[Differenttherapy.com]

I appreciate your interest very much Jim but I´m sorry ....
I can´t give a way the instructor outline for this course ...
It an Exclusive course.....

But as I mentioned before, there will be soon a new webpage....
about No Fear Diving & I´ll try to explain the course in detail .... as good I can...

& soon there will be also an article in the blog section of my webpage about Client´s & their experiences with
No Fear Diving ...

Blog

 

[bluejaykaren]

I think a fear of drowning makes you a safer diver. Its how you deal with the fear that counts in an emergency situation. Maybe the class isn't so farfetched.
I was in a scuba accident that led to me giving up diving for years. Maybe I wouldn't have if there had been such a class.

 

[flots am]

I don't know if anyone else on the thread is a psychotherapist, but I am, so I'll weigh in. I guess this guy is a therapist trying to combine his various interests/skills into a marketing niche. I really don't see this as a specialty course because as far as I can tell, any instructor has plenty of experience dealing with students' fears. If you do it well, you use some combination of education, reassurance, systematic desensitization, and exposure. If you're really on the ball, you also coach your students in how to talk themselves through it in ways where they increase their ability to calm themselves down rather than working themselves up.

I'm still not sure it's appropriate or safe. If you treat someone for agoraphobia and they end up at a restaurant and freak out, the worst they'll have had is a bad dinner and a ride home or maybe to a hospital. If you treat someone for fear of water and they freak out on a dive, they could easily end up dead. Maybe with a dead buddy too.

I also have the distinct feeling that if PADI ever got wind of what he was doing under the name "PADI course" they would send in the lawyers and shut the OP down in a heartbeat.

flots.

 

[SeaHorse81]

I'm still not sure it's appropriate or safe. If you treat someone for agoraphobia and they end up at a restaurant and freak out, the worst they'll have had is a bad bad dinner and a ride home or maybe to a hospital. If you treat someone for fear of water and they freak out on a dive, they could easily end up dead. Maybe with a dead buddy too.

There's certainly a judgement call involved in deciding when someone is even appropriate for this kind of program. Someone's got to decide whether a student's anxiety is more the normal anxiety of unfamiliarity or the irrational phobia that defies explanation. Someone's got to decide when it looks enough like a phobia to warrant special strategies, a referral to a specialist, or a determination that diving just isn't in the cards.

Here's the tough part that's out of any instructor's control though, including OP. Once you, as a somewhat phobic person, have figured out how to deal with the feared circumstance and successfully manage yourself within it, you really need to keep practicing in order to maintain it . In the case of diving, that means lots of time in the water, obviously, and not with months off in between dives. If you don't do that, the fear tends to return because the nature of negative emotions is to leave a much deeper trace in memory than positive emotions do. That's why one very bad experience can ruin an activity that someone has enjoyed hundreds of times.

So it might seem ironic, but the people for whom a program like this would be potentially useful are only those who have a strong desire or reason to dive regularly, and who are phobic. OP has such a small pool of potential students in any event that there's little reason to get worked up over this. Again, most people whose phobias are triggered by diving will simply avoid diving, because most people like the easiest way around their misery, and that's it.

I can only think of one group of divers that would have both the motivation and the need to take on a program like this: long-time divers who have had a traumatic experience, are now phobic, and are willing to fight their way back to the sport they love. Those are the people who will do the work necessary to preserve what they accomplish.

 

[Differenttherapy.com]

@ flots am

About Safety.... in the PADI No Fear Diving Course...

Safety was a huge topic when I designed this Course....
The supervision of Clients is set up in a very close "frame"...

The maximum ratio ("Ratio") diving students to an instructor
for all training dives is 4 student divers per instructor (4:1).
During all dives, the instructor must be in the water and
supervise the dive-activitys... directly.
The ratio of 4:1 can be increased, by the use of a "certified assistant".
The maximum ratio diving students to "certified assistant" is 1:1.
The maximum number of participants is limited to 6 people.

Nearly no other dive course offer such a close supervision for dive student´s...

&....
I don´t have to fear nothing about PADI.... & the legality of my PADI course...
because I´m "The" PADI No Fear Diving Instructor...

 

[crosshairs]

This looks like SPAM designed for nothing more than to get site hits on the OP's website

EDIT:
Well, at least he is a diver in real life...

https://plus.google.com/110106362958086961090/posts

 

[flots am]

I don´t have to fear nothing about PADI.... & the legality of my PADI course...
because I´m "The" PADI No Fear Diving Instructor...

So you're saying that you have written Distinctive Specialty approval from PADI for a class that is actually psychotherapy?

flots.

 

[Differenttherapy.com]

@flots am

Please read the bog with more attention...

No Fear Diving is as Scubadiving Course & no psychotherapy....

& I´m a Ergo. Therapist & I´m practicing Ergo.-therapy .... this is something very differnt.. like Different Therapy....

Please read in http://differenttherapy.com/index.php/en/ergo-therapy-2/what-it-is-about