FEAR OF FLYING (AVIOPHOBIA) SEMINAR
Identify thinking patterns, train them actively, fly relaxed

Flight Simulator Berlin and its Boeing 737 enable people to fulfill their dream of flying and controlling an aeroplane. While just spending a thought on this tangible experience most people are cheered up with excitement, others show immediate symptoms of aviophobia. The symptomatology of aviophobia contains a wide spectrum of intensity and quality. It ranges from discomfort to panic attacks.
Inquiries about trainings to handle aviophobia are most commonly prior to the school holidays. At Flight Simulator Berlin these inquiries will be met with an individual offer of therapeutical based training concepts.


Concrete Goals

Participants will find answers to following questions: What is fear? How does the vicious circle of panic work? What kind of actions are physically and mentally taking place inside the body? Participants are mediated on a new understanding of fear, specifically on aviophobia. Fear is a reasonable and natural psychophysical reaction, which allows a fast reaction in times of threat and danger.
Participants will learn to cope with fear in several steps since symptoms of fear are influencable. Previous unreasonable cognition patterns and false ideas about aviation will be analysed and replaced by rather truthful facts. The approach onto the fear of flying will be supported by active physical exercises. Through new learned techniques like the skill of stress relaxation and a change to previous cognition patterns and false ideas about aviation, participants can cope with aviophobia and experience a stress-free preflight and flight.


Individual Approach

Strategies on how to cope with fear are effective when they are applied onto the individual fear characteristics. Therefore, at the beginning of a seminar, there will be a survey of each participant’s individual fear of flying: the previous only diffused-sensed aviophobia will be talked about considering its triggers, their physical and mental symptomatics and previous prevention strategies. Each individual’s symptoms of fear, which develop due to irrational rather than real apprehensions, are nominated with the ACTUAL VALUE. Together with each participant we will work out concrete goals of fearless flying and characterise them as REFERENCE VALUES. Additionally, detailed steps of accomplishment will be developed to treat the symptoms of fear.


What characterizes the training?

The training will be conducted by qualified behavioural therapists. Effective change can not just happen by means of transferring knowledge, even though this will be done with plenty of pictures and examples. Growth and development takes place via vivid learning, which will be realized by lots of exercises or the exclusive application of real practical exercises. We therefore achieve a high transfer action onto the normal flight routine of each participant.

The seminars last 2 days and will be conducted by psychologists, who have completed an advanced training in cognitive behavioural therapy and are specialized in the treatment of fears.