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PADI No Fear Diving Specialty
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PADI No Fear Diving Specialty
different_therapy - 1/15/2013 1:21 AM
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PADI No Fear Diving SpecialtyIntroducing the PADI No Fear Diving distinctive specialty....


No Fear Diving Padi Distinctive Specialty Course


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This PADI No Fear Diving distinctive specialty course is expressly created for people with concerns and fears in context to scuba diving and water. Fear is an emotion that nearly all divers have experienced; like other emotions. Fear and and anxiousness are the main topics in PADI No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty Course. The PADI No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty course aims to appeal to divers and non-divers who feel insecure under or above the surface for various reasons.
The PADI No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty Course is, by PADI standards a course only for certified divers. Some skills from the PADI No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty Course can be attached to the PADI Open Water Diver education. Later the client can complete the PADI No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty Course to be become certified after the open water course is completed).
This course puts the diver himself at the center of attention, professional supervision and reflection, emphasizing his personal wishes, handicaps, needs and goals.
The No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty Course a customized scuba diving course! The Client decide which personal emotion will be one of the topics in his client centered scuba course.
Personality, individuality and customer-centricity are the attributes of the PADI No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty Course.
The PADI No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty Course is intended to be a safe way for clients to test themselves in a secure, supervised environment.
It creates space to speak about problems, dispel misgivings, rebut and eliminate stress and as a result, to reduce discomfort, anxiousness and fear.
PADI No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty Course is a scuba dive course and not therapy!
It can however be part of an individual therapy in the Ergo-therapeutic concept of Different Therapy, like every other PADI scuba diving course.
How it Works?!

The PADI No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty Course can be completed over a minimum of 2 days.The first step of the course is a detailed discussion. The focus is to gain a comprehensive overview about your concerns, problems and stressors related to scuba diving.
The second step is to figure out together the personal goals and topics of the dive client and to integrate them into his PADI No Fear Diving Course.
The third step is the development of an individual course plan based on personal needs and wishes of the diver. This includes extensive advice and an explanation of your personal course challenges.
Participants will learn about individual stressors and they will be confronted with them in an adequate, secure, professional and supervised way.
The supervision of diving clients is set up in a very close "frame". Nearly no other dive course offers such a close supervision for diving students.
In general, it´s recommended completing the PADI No Fear Diving Distinctive Specialty Course in a private one to one ratio of Instructor to student. There may be cases when it is interesting to conduct the course in a group setting. In this case the maximum allowed student ratio to the primary instructor is set at 4. This can be increased to 5 or 6 students as long as there is a certified assistant present for each additional student. In no case will the group class hold more than 6 students.
Course objectives are:

1. FIRST
TO GAIN THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT YOUR CONCERNS, ANXIOUSNESS AND FEARS AND TO UNDERSTAND THEIR CAUSE.
2. SECOND
TO LEARN HOW YOU CAN RESPONSIBLY HANDLE THEM AND FIND YOUR INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS.
3. THIRD
TO USE THE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION TO VISUALIZE EXISTING PROBLEMS AND HANDLE AND UNDERSTAND THEM MORE EFFICIENTLY.
4. FOURTH
TO IMPROVE YOUR DIVING SKILLS UNDER PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION.
5. FIFTH
TO LEARN TO ORGANIZE AND PLAN YOUR DIVES ACCORDING TO YOUR WISHES AND NEEDS AND TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY YOUR DIVES TO THE FULLEST.
6. SIXTH
TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO PARTICIPATE AND ENJOY OTHER PADI COURSES.