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Overcome Your Fear Of Heights

Fear of Heights article November 2012  


As featured in Adventure Travel magazine
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Trek and Mountain Magazine - Fear of Heights article  


As featured in Trek & Mountain magazine
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Listen to Lissa Cook of High Peak Radio overcoming her fear of heights by clicking here.

Trail Magazine - Fear of Heights article  


As featured in Trail magazine
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". . . the effects of the course have had a positive effect on my life . . . I'm standing on the edge of something high and suddenly thinking "Oh! I wouldn't have stood up here before the course!" Yesterday it really hit home when I tried an SRT prussic up a rope. I shot up the rope (which was hanging off of a tree) and had a chat with the guys 5 meters below before I realised that I wasn't dizzy or scared. Thanks for running such a life changing course!"
- Catherine K.

"I want to thank you again for an excellent weekend. I actually had quite a lump in my throat on Sunday evening on thinking that I wouldn't see that group again, as we'd all been through a unique and powerful experience. I think yours and Brian's course is brilliant and on Sunday in particular I felt full of confidence and now can't wait to do more . . ."
- Stephen N.

Totally natural – but so frustratingly inhibiting is this affliction that so many of us suffer. This course is unique: it combines two excellent approaches to enable you to regain control of your emotions from your phobias. Specialist in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), Brian McHugh (www.brianmchugh.co.uk) combines forces with the outdoor expertise of Will4Adventure in providing this truly unique and exclusive course to tackle your fears.



You know the scenario …

You’re on the hill with some friends – so far so good – “nothing to worry about” they tell you. Then why is it that all of a sudden you find yourself super-glued to that simple section of rock linking you to the next grassy plateau just a few feet above? Despite the ease with which all others manage this, enjoyment is quickly replaced by some far-fetched movie playing through your mind in which you’re the lead actor about to be driven to the depths of your doom.

Does this situation sound familiar? Maybe it’s not on a rock face, or steep hill – maybe your whole life is dominated by avoiding all such situations … do you circumnavigate all the stations on the London Underground that have high escalators? Will you not cross a high footbridge? Do your children get on the London Eye, climb the Eifel Tower or whatever … while you stand alone, locked to the ground, waiting in trepidation and feeling self-anger that you can not be sharing these experiences with your family? Worse, maybe you’re programming them with the same script – frame by frame …

A short video from a recent course:


Fear of Heights 1 - It’s high time to face that demon

How do we do it?
This is a gradual process and it does not force you to do anything you don’t want to.

The course begins with an indoor session looking at why you are scared of heights and at re-writing the film script that runs through your mind each time you are faced with the scenario. To overcome your acrophobia, (fear of heights), you need to program your unconscious mind with a healthy level of wariness and then use that wariness to replace your irrational terror. This first stage uses the hugely successful process of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).

Anyone else running this therapy would end the treatment there. Thank you very much and good luck …

Not with us – this is just the beginning and this is why our course is unique. Following this first stage we now head outdoors and start again: this time using a practical approach of phased exercises we develop your trust and confidence in your leader, your equipment, your skills and then … in yourself.

Course Location: Peak District National Park, Derbyshire

Price per person:

£150 Overcome Your Fear of Heights one day course

£200 for two days including one day of novice rock climbing tuition

Leader/client ratio: 1:4

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Fear of Heights 2 - Improver's Weekend

"Will, thanks for an absolutely amazing weekend! Loved it all especially the climbing. Again your slow and steady technique, with gradual steps forward in trying each activity really paid off. The fact that by the end, instead of feeling wary of climbing Pavey Ark, I was actually dying to give it a go, says it all! Thanks for your time and dedication, it really was a truly transformative experience!"
- Damian M.

Use it or lose it is a well known phrase that applies to many aspects of life. Once you've joined us for a weekend to overcome your fear of heights you need to keep investing in yourself demonstrating to your conscious mind that heights really aren't an issue any longer.

So where to now? For many this may mean that you join us for a Rock 1 climbing weekend or maybe a Scrambles 1 weekend. For others of you who may have let things lapse maybe you don't believe you still have it in you. The Fear of Heights 2 course is a 1:1 day or weekend to remind yourself what a hero you actually are.

On this course we invest in the successes from the first course and actually look to develop your desire to be at height. We will anticipate and pre-empt your moments of anxiety with a variety of techniques available to us to prove how you can still cope with and work at height. The course is designed to be run on a 1 to 1 basis since at this stage, different people have different issues that can't necessarily be approached with one solution. If you want to join us with a friend then that may be possible however.

Each activity is reassuringly non-committing allowing you to escape activities where need be. And as with our original weekend – each task is achieved with no pressure from us making each and every success your own!

Course Location: By arrangement – depending on what you wish to achieve this could be Snowdonia, the Peak District or the Lakes.

Price per person: £150

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Book your place now or request further details by emailing will@will4adventure.com

Private bookings can be taken for this event. Contact us with your preferred date(s) that suit you and the numbers and we'll get back to you asap with all the details.

As featured in

The Guardian

High Peak Radio   Heason Events

Lissa Cook from Heason Events recently joined us on our Overcome Your Fear of Heights course and broadcast her experience on High Peak Radio. Listen to Lissa Cook overcoming her fear of heights here.

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