MIND DRIVING GROUP
Over the past few months, discussions have taken place regarding forming a ‘Mind Driving Group’ within the association. This would be to discuss and implement ideas in the book by Stephen Haley, ‘Mind Driving’, and see how we could adapt and use them in the teaching of our pupils, and also, improve our own driving standards.
Martin Smith is extremely enthusiastic about the ideas portrayed in the book and has kindly offered to chair the new group.
Steve Haley is very keen to lend his support to this project, and has kindly offered to do a one-day seminar to get the project moving. This would be invaluable to the new group in getting a really good grounding in Mind Driving principles. The cost of the day course would be £50 each limited to 10 persons per course. The course would be at Rishton Golf Club.
If interested, please contact Terry Charnock. There would be no charge to join the Mind Driving Group whether you take the course or not.
From Stephen Haley:-
At the bottom is the brief ‘standard’ Workshop Outline, though, I must emphasise that most are tailored in some way to the objective. Compared to the short talk I did for your group, the "Techniques and skills" section is much expanded and a "Trainers Top Ten" section is added, so the agenda is:
In addition to the discussion being customised within this agenda, and the participants on the day also determine where they focus their time.
The workshop to get the Mind Driving Group established and working would be geared to achieving that specific objective.
There is, for example, the possibility of building in some initial material on lesson plans.
All the best,
Steve
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MIND DRIVING 1 DAY WORKSHOP OUTLINE
Mind Driving shows why and how safe driving is controlled by how we think. And it defines a set of eight teachable skills, which work together as our total driving ability. They include: establishing a safe mindset, understanding the causes of danger as a practical model for controlling risk, and the ability to learn more rapidly from experience.
The workshop is a chance to discuss first hand with the author, Stephen Haley, the background to how the approach and the book came to be, why it is so different, and the main ideas and skills that it contains.
A recent addition to this workshop is a section, not in the book, that explores the problems and opportunities with Young Drivers, which appeals especially to instructors and trainers.
The workshop is well suited to everyone with a role in road safety, including: driver trainers at fleet or learner level, safety officers, behavioural coaches, collision investigators and transport managers.