Newcastle Course 9th June 2009

Learn to teach with ease, give presentations like a pro and speak with confidence in any situation. You can be calm and think straight in the very situations that used to bring panic, fear and anxiety with The Fear Course.

The Fear Course is a one day workshop which has been specifically designed for people just like you; people who find it hard to do public speaking, teaching, lecturing or any other activity where you need to be at the front and centre of attention and want to perform well.

You can get rid of the anxiety, reduce the fear and start to be more confident right now on this proven and innovative course.

The Fear Course will show you how to:

• Act and be more confident
• Reduce fears
• Relax in stressful situations
• Decrease anxieties
• Deal better with difficult and demanding situations
• Be calm when giving presentation, lectures or other public events
• Learn to relax and enjoy thigs you never thought possible.

About your facilitator

The course has been specifically designed by David Wilkinson. David is an Ex- police officer who learned the hard way how to become more confident when things are tough. He started out as a nervous youth lacking in confidence to become Director of Studies at the UK National Police Training Unit, responsible for training police trainers for the Home Office. He then went on to become a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University to teach lecturers in the UK how to lecture and present more confidently and how to reduce their nerves.

So successful was he that within a very short time he became Head of Professional Development at Cranfield University where he researched and taught leaders how to develop greater emotional resilience especially in difficult situations of uncertainty and risk.

He is the author of 'The Ambiguity Advantage' published by Palgrave Macmillan and coaches leaders around the world how to deal with difficult and ambiguous situations, how to deal with their fears, nerves and worries and become more composed and make better decisions.

David now works with a wide range of people from all walks of life. He coaches leaders in the city, runs workshop for companies like Royal Mail and the services like the police, the RAF and the NHS. He also runs workshops in many universities including Oxford University, Oxford Brookes, York, Essex, Cardiff, Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores, Reading and many more.

His empathy, compassion, knowledge and lovely sense of humour has won him many friends and plaudits from clients from around the world. He now travels widely helping people become more confident, better composed in times of difficulty, make better decisions, and be less nervous.

His work on emotional resilience and how to deal with difficulties and uncertainty has become widely recognised.

The Fear Course was specifically developed by David so that members of the public could learn the secrets of how to reduce their nerves, fears and worries and be more confident in almost any situation. His prime concern for the course is that it is practical, affordable and gives outstanding value for money.

Contents

• The fear fallacy
• Where fear comes from and what to do about it
• The emotional balance technique
• The emotional trigger map
• Fast anxiety reduction methods
• Several techniques for fear reduction.

Aims
The aim of this one day course is to help people control nerves, anxieties and fears through a variety of innovative and tested practical techniques and methods and become calmer in many situations.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this workshop participants should be able to:

* Know why and how fears anxieties and nervousness occur
* Analyse their anxiety triggers
* Analyse their current fear strategies
* Be able to apply a selection of fear and anxiety reduction techniques in any situation
* Use breathing and posture methods to become calmer quickly
* Build an effective 'Be Calm' strategy for everyday use.
* Develop a blockbuster strategy for 'big' events and situations
* Create a quick personal fear reduction strategy for unexpected events

Programme

9.30 am Start
Morning content
Introduction and overview and what do you want out of this workshop
The nature of fear and what it is for
What are my anxiety triggers
Old fear habits and strategies
Balance techniques

1230 - 1315 Lunch time

1315 Start
Afternoon content
Breathing and Posture Techniques
Balcony method of anxiety reduction
Time line techniques
Cinema reduction method
Anchoring techniques
Building new habits and strategies for every occasion

4.30pm Finish

Just thank you