Talk Trauma
in Scuba Diving
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Talk Trauma in Scuba Diving
Welcome to "Talk Trauma in Scuba Diving," a course dedicated to enhancing your understanding of the psychological aspects of diving. This program is specifically designed to provide you with essential knowledge and familiarisation to practical skills to address the mental and emotional challenges encountered in scuba diving. By participating in this course, you will gain valuable insights into the psychological dynamics of diving, relevant to various situations with greater awareness and confidence.
This course is not just about acquiring knowledge; it's about empowering you to become a more resilient, aware, and skilled diver. Join us in this unique exploration to enhance your diving experience and contribute to a safer and more supportive diving community.
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"Talk Trauma in Scuba Diving" is designed for a diverse range of participants within the diving community. Whether you're just starting your diving journey or you're a seasoned diver with many dives under your belt, this course offers valuable insights and skills that can enhance your diving experience. Here's who will benefit most from enrolling:
"Talk Trauma in Scuba Diving" is an opportunity to explore a side of diving rarely discussed yet fundamental to every diver's experience. Join us to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and the underwater world.
This unique program is tailored to enrich your diving experience, offering a blend of psychological insight and practical skills. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced diver, this course is designed to enhance your understanding of the mental and emotional aspects of diving, ensuring a more confident and fulfilling experience underwater. Here are the key benefits available:
ENHANCED DIVING SKILLS: Learn personal practices to refine and improve your scuba diving abilities.
STRESS MANAGEMENT: Develop skills to understand and handle stress both in and out of the water.
OVERCOMING MENTAL BLOCKS: Build awareness of psychological barriers that may affect your diving and learn how to overcome them.
BUDDY SUPPORT: Gain insights into supporting your diving partners effectively.
DISCOVERING STRESS BENEFITS: Uncover the hidden benefits of stress and when it can be a useful force.
BROADER WELLBEING: Apply the skills learned to contribute to your overall mental health and wellbeing.
COMMUNITY AWARENESS: Contribute to raising awareness about psychological trauma in the diving community.
PREVENTION OF FUTURE INCIDENTS: Understand the link between past trauma and potential future diving incidents, and how you can play a role in prevention.
SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND RESOURCES: Your participation helps support a resource center and a research project dedicated to divers' wellbeing.
Why This Course is Also For You
As a diving instructor or guide, your role extends beyond teaching technical skills; it's about creating a safe and supportive environment for your divers. "Talk Trauma in Scuba Diving" offers invaluable insights that can transform the way you teach and interact with your students. Here's why this course is essential for you:
Trauma-Informed Instruction: Enhance your teaching by understanding the impact of trauma and distress on divers. This knowledge allows you to create a more empathetic and responsive learning environment.
Improved Diver Retention: By understanding the psychological aspects of diving, you can help divers overcome fears and anxieties, leading to increased confidence and a higher likelihood of them continuing with the sport.
Enhanced Safety and Communication: Gain skills in identifying and addressing signs of distress in divers. This not only improves safety but also fosters a more open and trusting communication channel between you and your students.
This course equips you with the tools to not just be an instructor, but a guide who understands the deeper psychological needs of divers. Embrace this opportunity to elevate your teaching and make a lasting impact in the diving community.
Lesson 2: Psychological Effects of Trauma and Distress
Lesson 3: Common Diving Fears and Anxieties
Lesson 1: Understanding the Healing Process
Trauma Response in the body
Resistance to learning
Dive Pros Too!
Unexpected benefits from post-traumatic growth
Lesson 3: EMDR and its Benefits
Lesson 1: Strategies for Managing Fears and Anxieties
Who is making & teaching the course?
Education (not therapy & not dive training)
Please note that "Talk Trauma in Scuba Diving" is an educational resource designed to provide information and insights into the psychological aspects of scuba diving. This course is not a substitute for professional psychological therapy or scuba diving instruction. It is intended to enhance awareness and knowledge for divers, diving instructors, and guides, but it does not provide therapeutic intervention or diving certification.
Participants are responsible for ensuring they are medically fit to dive and dive within the limits of their qualification and training. If you are currently experiencing psychological trauma or distress, we recommend seeking professional support. For resources and assistance, please visit our resource center at Fit to Dive.
By enrolling in this course, you acknowledge and agree that the course is for educational purposes only and does not constitute psychological therapy or professional diving instruction.
Build your awareness of psychological trauma and distress in scuba diving. Learn how that awareness can help you improve your skills as a diver.
Contributing to Diver Wellbeing and Research
This work is not externally funded, and your enrollment in the course directly contributes to these efforts, helping to offer useful resources and support to the diving community. By joining the course, you're not only investing in your own growth and understanding but also supporting a small, independent project, that aims to support diver wellbeing.
The primary goal of this course is to help divers. The course fees are set to make the course accessible to divers and support the project. Although the value of the course is certainly higher that fees shown (in terms of content and interaction) fees are set relatively low. You get to choose what you pay: the set fee, bring-a-buddy and split the fee or show your support by contributing more.
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Reviews from other courses (because Talk Trauma is too new to have reviews yet)
Lots to relate to here and a great overall look at the way panic manifests itself and how to manage it. This is relevant to all divers irrespective of experi...
Read MoreLots to relate to here and a great overall look at the way panic manifests itself and how to manage it. This is relevant to all divers irrespective of experience and has some very important lessons and tools. All divers should take this course!
Read LessI liked the course a lot! Very informative, complex psychology topics broken down into small learning units, great videos, easy to understand, huge relevance...
Read MoreI liked the course a lot! Very informative, complex psychology topics broken down into small learning units, great videos, easy to understand, huge relevance for enhancing diving know how, great for reflection your own scuber diver life and learning about yourself. Personally I think this course should be mandatory to all dive professionals (already within the IDC) but maybe it is already. During the time I made my IDC it was not. Why? Because the course showed me, that I experienced all the topics covered during my active OWSI time with students, but also as a fun diver but the course offered the possibility to put all of the experiences into great frame work. But also for fun diving it is a great course as it gives you the possibility to get insights and consciousness of yourself and your scuba diver life.
Read LessThe second of Laura’s courses I have done. Very interesting, useful and accessible.
The second of Laura’s courses I have done. Very interesting, useful and accessible.
Read LessAs scuba divers we venture into a whole different world. It can be full of wonder, but it can also lead to stressful situations. This course, "Prevent Panic ...
Read MoreAs scuba divers we venture into a whole different world. It can be full of wonder, but it can also lead to stressful situations. This course, "Prevent Panic in Scuba Diving", is a practical and eye opening study that gets to the cause and effect of how to recognize and prevent panic while diving. I highly recommend this course for any diver skill level!
Read LessLaura is a fantastic instructor and has developed a well-structured and enlightening course. Loved it!
Laura is a fantastic instructor and has developed a well-structured and enlightening course. Loved it!
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