The purpose of this experiential session is to better understand the mechanisms that underpin our fears and anxieties and to suggest practical ways to overcome them.
Mastering Our Fears and Anxiety Fear – a natural response to a threat either perceived or real – is one of our most powerful emotions. So is anxiety: the fear associated with the thought of a threat or something going wrong in the future. In times of COVID, both are spiking, taking a toll on both mental and physical health. The purpose of this experiential session is to better understand the mechanisms that underpin our fears and anxieties and to suggest practical ways to overcome them. It will involve a direct experience placing any willing volunteer in a situation of fear (brought on by vertigo) from which they and all of us looking on will be able to derive tangible insights on how to better deal with fear and anxiety in our personal and professional lives.
Led by:
- Blaise Agresti, Managing Partner, Mountain Path, France
- Gérard Guerrier, Author of Eloge de la Peur (In Praise of Fear)
- Samah Karaki, Neuroscientist; Founder, Social Brain Institute, Switzerland
