Hi Everyone

What a few days this has been with so many successful flyers telling their stories on the forum. Flyingwithoutfear.com is growing very rapidly and it takes most of my time keeping up with all the messages and emails that I get.
So if I'm slow replying please forgive me.

Plans are goung well for the new fear of flying seminars that I'm starting. After being at the conference I realise that there are many levels of help needed and with the association with Valk in Amsterdam they will take care of the seminars with flights included, but I shall be in attendance as the pilot 'expert'.

The new seminar style that I will run will be information and guidance based and though they will be suitable for most people there will not be psychologists' inputs.

We will soon be in a position to recommend therapists here in the UK, in Seattle and in Australia. Our new book which is due for publication next year explains the psychology of fear and the various causes of a fear of flying. It will give advice and guidance.

I am also hoping to make available on line a course by one of the leading fear of flying therapists in the USA.
All in all flyingwithoutfear.com is set to be the biggest help site for fear of flying on the web.

We hope to become a worldwide resource for anyone looking for help to overcome their fear of flying. Please help us to spread the word.

Captain Keith

Thoughts on the Conference

Hi everyone,

Now that I've been back for a few days I can reflect more clearly on the World Fear of Flying Conference.

The value of meeting other therapists and helpers certainly puts the matter of help into a new dimension. It seems the greatest hurdle to helping is the general reluctance of evryone to acknowledge the extent of the fear of flying. The suggested proposal to ICAO will go some way towards getting airlines and airports to help fearful passengers.

As a group there was a committment to develop a network of help and co-operation between therapists, doctors, pilots and others who help with the fear of flying. For those present there was an agreement to help each other rather than to be isolationist in what help is given. This should improve the quality of help with regard to cross discilpline help.

It is highly likely that there will be another conference in 2009 or 2010 when I hope there will be more people in attendance who are suffering from or have recovered from a fear of flying.

So I hope some of you will think about attending and making your experiences known.

Keith