Jumpseat Therapy
Jumpseat Therapy is a mindfulness-based, cognitive-behavioral program designed to help flight attendants and other airline professionals navigate burnout. This program complements the Jumpseat Therapy workbook from Brian Pelletier, LPC, NCC.
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Preparing For Takeoff
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Preparing for Takeoff
Welcome to Jumpseat Therapy. In this module you will receive a brief overview of the Jumpseat Therapy program including what to expect and topics covered.
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Scheduled Vs Actual Departure
It’s time for your first career reflection. Let’s look at your career expectations versus realty.
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Grounding with Breath
This exercise is designed to use your breath calm your nervous system and relax.
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Countdown! Sensory Grounding
This exercise is designed to use engage your senses in order to calm your nervous system and reconnect with the present.
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Bag of Pretzels
This exercise is combines sensory grounding with mindful eating to provide even a more interactive option for grounding.
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Recognizing Burnout
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Recognizing Burnout
In this module, you will learn to recognize the signs of burnout and compassion fatigue as well as engage in a few exercises to examine and navigate your experience with burnout.
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Get Some A.I.R.
This mindfulness practice teaches you how to give yourself space between an emotional reaction and a response. It’s time to get some air.
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Meditation for Burnout
Navigate burnout through this mindful meditation designed for flight attendants and other airline crew.
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Grounding Exercise
Another grounding exercise presented by Jumpseat Therapy. Keep up your mindfulness practice with this exercise.
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Using Your Compass
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Using Your Compass
This module is all about values, the things that are important to us. You’ll learn about values and how they can guide you to have a more fulfilling life and career.
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Who Do You Admire?
This values exercise is designed to help you identify your values by looking at qualities in those you admire.
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Retirement Party
This values exercise is designed to help you identify if you are currently living by your values through the perspective of others.
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Evacuate! Evacuate!
This values exercise uses immediacy and scarcity to help you identify who and what is important to you.
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Waiting for the Perfect Plane
This values metaphor helps you realize that the perfect time to start making change in your life is right now.
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The Control Tower
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The Control Tower
In this module, you’ll learn how to be aware and mindful of what you can and can’t control both externally (others and the world) and internally (thoughts, feelings, and emotions).
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Baggage Carousel
This mindful meditation will help you view your internal experiences as transitory experiences.
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Turbulent Skies
This mindfulness exercise will help you see the transitory nature of your emotions.
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Urge Surfing
This mindfulness exercise will assist you experiencing urges without needing to react to them. Surfs up!
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The View At 34,000 Ft.
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The View at 34,000 Ft.
This module is all about perception and perspective. We’ll review what influences our views of the world, others, and ourselves and then learn how others view us. This will build empathy and psychological flexibility.
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Meditation Coping with Difficult People
This meditation is designed to help you engage in mindfulness with dealing with difficult passengers and crew at work.
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Description Vs. Evaluation
The purpose of this exercise is to help you recognize evaluative statements which could skew your perception of yourself and others.
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Holding Patterns
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Holding Patterns
This module is about holding patterns or unproductive thinking patterns we can get caught up in that affect our mood and influence our behavior.
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ABC Analysis
Let’s dive into the details of the ABC Analysis. The easiest way for your to recognize and dispute cognitive distortions or holding patterns is by knowing your ABCs.
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Cognitive Distortions
Let’s take a look at how cognitive distortions look in real life with this fun animated video.
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Lost Signals
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Lost Signals
This module is all about communication and interpersonal effectiveness both in the sky and on the ground. Learn skills to communicate effectively, manage conflict, and become a better listener.
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Dear Man
This interpersonal effectiveness exercise is designed to help you advocate for your needs while maintaining the relationship and preventing emotional escalation.
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Reflections
This interpersonal effectiveness exercise will enhance your listening skills so that you can effectively communicate to someone and let them know they’ve been heard and understood.
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Returning To Base
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Returning To Base
This module is about distress tolerance. There are times when were are faced with overwhelming stress and anxiety that we need to return to our center (aka our base) so that we can make the right choices. In this module you’ll learn skills to help you re-center yourself.
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R.E.S.T. Skill
We’ll dive into the R.E.S.T. distress tolerance skill to help you find space between emotion and reaction.
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Recognizing Anger
While anger isn’t always bad, this lesson will help you become more aware of the core emotions behind anger as well as recognize common thinking traps that can lead to anger.
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Meditation - Passengers on the Plane
In this mindfulness meditation entitled Passengers on the Plane you will begin to recognize how sometimes we experience competing thoughts and emotions that move us away from our goals.
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Crossing Borders
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The Layover
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The Layover
This module is all about self-care. In it, we’ll explore concepts of time management, sleep hygiene, and more!
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Loneliness Meditation
A meditation designed to combat feelings of loneliness encountered while traveling for work.
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Sleep Meditation
A meditation designed to help you find restful sleep while on layover.
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Crew Dynamics
What you’ll learn
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Identify the signs of compassion fatigue in order to cope with burnout.
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Engage in present-based, grounding exercises to lower your stress while on duty and in your daily life.
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Through values identification rediscover your passion for flying for a more rewarding career.
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Access our Jumpseat Therapy courses for one flat fee.
Jumpseat Therapy
Order the Jumpseat Therapy workbook to complement your journey towards falling back in love with your flying career. Take back control of your career with evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral mindfulness skills adapted for the unique Flight Attendant lifestyle.
In this workbook you will be able to:
Remember why you became a flight attendant.
Discover what’s important to you.
Understand how we see the world.
Communicate effectively on and off the plane.
Effectively handle stress.
And more!
Course FAQ
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Jumpseat Therapy is designed to both complement your personal therapy and to provide skills to those who want a little career pick-me-up without the need for weekly emotional exploration.
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We all have different ways of learning. This online course offers an additional way to learn and practice mindfulness skills adapted for flight attendants. And since this is online, updates can be made and additional exercises added as they develop without the need for a new book.
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In a perfect world, yes. But between resource scarcity and the lack of knowledge about the career from contracted EAP professionals, Jumpseat Therapy provides a resource that is always available and tailor-made for airline professionals.