The 5 Circles Teaching Method provides a successful path in all the places you’ve been stumped—AND in the places that your teaching has worked just fine. Panic-prevention is part of The 5 Circles which is missing from traditional teaching. In teaching swimming, The 5 Circles Teaching Method is especially helpful for teaching fearful adults, sinkers, people who are stuck and kids who keep crying. You’ll have a way to explain where students are in their learning. Adult students will understand for the first time. Children as well as adults experience The 5 Circles approach as permission, compassion, and reliable success. Equally important, every student needs to know The 5 Circles: everyone needs to know where they are relative to the 1st Circle in order to understand that being in control of oneself is a location, and one’s greatest success and safety in any endeavor come while one is in control of him/herself. An understanding of The 5 Circles is essential to maximal personal safety. Every person needs to know how to keep him/herself in the 1st Circle and how to prevent panic—flying out to the 5th Circle—to have the best chance of saving his life in a life-threatening situation.