Fear Study — Why Study Fear
Where fear makes us run away from intense experiences, embracing fear is a pathway to growth, connection and resilience. The Fear Study offers a comprehensive view of fear; helping you to discover and dissolve the roots of fear and to courageously move forward in the face of fear. Whether you are a coach, practitioner or clinician, the course will provide you with skills, experiences and knowledge that will help you to solve problems for the rest of your life.
What you’ll be doing
“Knowledge is only a rumour until it lives in the muscle”
Follow along movement classes inspired by parkour, acrobatics and yoga to embody and explore lessons on fear.
5 minute daily emotion practices to experience and express emotions that support powerful and present action.
Psychological writing tasks to clarify the role of fear in your own life.
Module One: Moving Forwards
Inspired by Carl Jung’s insight that fear is aggression “in reverse”, this module explores aggression as a creative response to fear; an emotion that allows us to maintain focus and commit to a course of action.
Psychological practices are shared to bring fears to a conscious level. Emotional practices explore the expression of anger, an emotion that is taboo for many of us, but is needed to assert ourselves. Movement practices teach you to move with aggression and later to commit to challenging movements.
📚 Fear Study: Moving Forwards
│ ├─ 📑 Movement practice
│ ├── 📄 Moving with Aggression
│ │└──📄 Commiting to a Challenge
│ ├─ 📑 Emotion practice
│ ├── 📄 Integrating Aggression
│ │└── 📄 Channelling Aggression Creatively
│ ├─ 📑 Psychology practice
│ ├── 📄 Fear of Greatness
└ └── 📄 Fear Setting
Module Two: Moving Fearlessly
Inspired by Jiddu Krishnamurti’s secret, this module explores the roots of fear in attachment and what happens when we don’t run away.
Psychological practices are shared to explore the fear of rejection and what happens when we find validation internally. Emotional practices explore two emotions we tend to run away from; sadness and shame. Movement practices share a developmental approach to acrobatics, exploring how the body stiffens in fear and how to unwind those tensions; later to apply these insights into creative tasks.
📚 Moving Fearlessly Overview
│ ├─ 📑 Movement practice
│ ├── 📄 Developmental Movement
│ │└─ 📄 Creative Movement
│ ├─ 📑 Emotion practice
│ ├── 📄 Not Running Away
│ │└── 📄 Forgiveness Practice
│ ├─ 📑 Psychology practice
│ ├── 📄 Fear of Rejection
└ └── 📄 “I don’t mind what happens” mantra
Module Three: Moving Courageously
Inspired by Andrew Huberman’s work on courage as a hard-wired neurological state we can summon in response to uncertainty. This module explores moving within and through states of stress and conflict.
Psychological practices explore how inner conflicts can disturb goal directed behaviour. Emotional practices explore strategies for managing feelings of stress which are natural parts of learning and intense work. Movement practices are shared on moving head-first over obstacles with progressive diving parkour skills.
📚 Moving Courageously Overview
│ ├─ 📑 Movement practice
│ ├── 📄 Moving Headfirst
│ │└─ 📄 Moving Through Uncertainty
│ ├─ 📑 Emotion practice
│ ├── 📄 Stress management skills
│ │└── 📄 Mobilisation response
│ ├─ 📑 Psychology practice
│ ├── 📄 Working with inner conflicts
└ └── 📄 Embodied imagination
Have you already learnt your Fear Processing Type?
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You’ll need about an hour and a half each week to complete the movement, emotion and psychology practices.
Movement practices are about 30 minutes long, and can be done multiple times per week. Emotion practices are about 5 minutes daily. Psychological tasks are about an hour once per module, but you may want to take more time.
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The course uses Notion, a simple note based app that allows for easy lifetime access. Notion allows you to pick up the course where you left off, no matter the timeframe.
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The course is designed to help you form a constructive relationship with thoughts and feelings. Many of the techniques come from therapeutic practices like CBT and Reichian therapy, and will likely enrich the therapeutic process with new perspectives and strong emotions.
However, if you have a history of psychotic episodes or similar, I am simply not educated enough to recognise where harm could be done, and cannot responsibly guide you through the course.
If you are taking psychiatric medication with emotional blunting effects, I would like to speak with you beforehand to help adapt the course to your needs and capacities.
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The answer depends on the severity of the injury and the intensity of the work. Some of the movements are performed aggressively and others gently.
Steps have been taken to provide options and graded exposure, but if you are unable to jump or do push ups due to pain or injury, some exercises may have to be left until after recovery.