The Fear Workshop

3-Day Intensive for Women Skiers of All Levels

Join us for three transformative days of skiing and learning, designed exclusively for women and led by renowned skier, writer, and PSIA National Alpine Team alumna and eastern Examiner, Mermer Blakeslee. This immersive workshop welcomes skiers of all levels, offering a supportive and inspiring environment to learn how to navigate the mental, emotional, and physical obstacles fear imposes.

Whether you’re mastering the basics or refining advanced techniques, experience customized coaching addressing your fears as well as your technical skills.

Spots are limited for this unique event. Don’t wait—overcome plateaus, build confidence, and enjoy a breakthrough using Mermer’s approach developed over 40 years, all with a community of women ready to support each other.

About the Experience: 

• Enjoy the support and camaraderie of women
• Expand your comfort zone
• Break free of the terminal intermediate or beginner blues
• Use skiing as a metaphor for other creative endeavors
• Cultivate a conversation with (rather than fight against) fear

Dates:

January 29 – 31, 2025

What’s Included:

• Breakfast and lunch in The Grill (normally members-only) all three days
• Three indoor presentations plus Q&A on equipment
• Small-group, highly personalized lessons morning and afternoon
• Ski-specific stretching

Pricing:

• $1200 (Season Passholders)
• $1500 (3-day lift ticket included)
• Ikon Passholders are required to make a reservation prior to the workshop. Reservations can be made at ikonpass.com .

For more information and to sign up, contact [email protected]

Limited to 30 participants. This workshop is for women only.

Cancellation for full refund no later than 1/14/25.

“To ski is to flirt with gravity. We go up only to come down. We pay to travel in a chairlift or a tram up the side of a mountain only to feel gravity’s pull, to feel ourselves in a delicious, selective fall like a moment in love. Like love, skiing has within it, inherent in its very nature, the act of letting go. And it is this letting go, this feeling of a controlled fall that brings the thrill, the freedom, the feeling of being swept along in the fever of a new crush. But to willingly let go, to fall, we must move through that small passage of time which contains not only exhilaration but fear.”  

– from A Conversation with Fear by Mermer Blakeslee.

About Mermer Blakeslee:

Mermer Blakeslee started skiing at 3 years-old on this mountain in 1960. After ski racing at a national level, she began teaching. She is an examiner emeritus for the Professional Ski Instructors of America and a former member of its elite National Demonstration Team. In 2006, she created PowerLearn®, a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive program at Windham for seriously committed students. Called by Stu Campbell “the ski industry’s fear specialist,” Mermer has led fear workshops for 35 years and has traveled across the country lecturing and training teachers in her approach. Her book, In the Yikes! Zone (Dutton, 2002) is now reprinted as A Conversation with Fear. Blakeslee is also the author of three acclaimed novels, the latest being When You Live by a River. For more information, visit www.mermerblakeslee.com .