Increase your driving confidence with an easy action plan

Name: Increase your driving confidence with an easy action plan
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Choose from a range of effective confidence building techniques to transform how you feel about driving.

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Created byTracey Field

Last updated 10/2021

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What you'll learn

Learn how to build self confidence and apply these concepts to your driving experience
Identify effective confidence building techniques that can be tailored to suit your own action plan
Manage negative thoughts that may be damaging your driving confidence
Understand how your brain responds to stress and negative thinking and use those same processes for a positive outcome
Utilise our coaching tools to identify areas of your driving to improve
Try our stress management tips, techniques and audios to help manage stress levels and calm anxiety

Course content

8 sections • 46 lectures • 1h 46m total length

Introduction1:06
If you keep repeating the same actions you will always get the same result0:21
About Us1:26
We created this lecture in case you would like to know a little more about us and what we do.

How negative thinking impacts your confidence1:36
Learn why negative thinking impacts your confidence
Swapping negative thoughts for positive thoughts2:43
Using positive phrases boosts confidence so prepare some swaps to change negative thoughts into more positive versions. If you are uncertain if your habitual thinking habits are negative or not, take a look at the unhelpful thinking styles worksheet from Psychology Tools.
Thoughts are NOT facts - you can choose your thoughts2:37
Just because you think something does not make it a fact! Download our thought log and complete the exercise to help you challenge those thoughts that might not be true, and create new balanced, more accurate thoughts instead.
Limiting beliefs2:41
Are you holding yourself back with your limiting beliefs? Try asking yourself some of our coaching questions as an alternative way to challenge unhelpful thoughts.
Asking yourself scaling questions1:13
Try a different style of coaching question that involves scaling so that you can track your progress over time.
Commentary driving1:04
Talking yourself through complex or stressful driving tasks can help keep you calm and focused.
Distance yourself from negative thinking1:12
This technique helps you to gain more perspective on a situation and help you to come up with different solutions.
Summary for managing your negative thoughts1:52

How your stress levels influence your driving confidence0:23
Breathing exercises2:12
Shape breathing exercise1:30
Try breathing in time to the shape expanding and contracting.
Guided relaxed breathing exercise6:59
This is a 7 minute guided relaxed breathing exercise for you to try.
Relaxation exercises1:05
Progressive muscle relaxation exercise13:37
This progressive muscle relaxation exercise involves tensing and releasing different muscles in the body in turn and lasts just under 14 minutes.
Passive muscle relaxation exercise13:43
This passive muscle relaxation is a different variation of the previous relaxation exercise and lasts for just under 14 minutes.
Mindfulness3:09
Mindfulness checking in practice1:53
Mindful Moments - Noticing the steering wheel0:42
Mindful Moments - Putting on your seatbelt0:33
Mindful Moments - Sitting in the car0:39
Mindful Moments - Walking to the car1:06
Mindful Moments - Taking a mindful sip of water3:21
Pour yourself a glass of water before trying this mindfulness exercise.
Body Language3:39
Summary for managing your stress levels0:47

Requirements

No driving experience is needed, you can start using these techniques before, during or after learning to drive

Description

Would you like more confidence in your driving lessons or to calm nerves before your driving test?

Or maybe you have already passed your driving test but find yourself actively avoiding certain driving situations that make you feel anxious?

If so, you are not alone, but the good news is that you can learn to overcome your driving fears to become a calm and confident driver.

This course brings together the most effective confidence-building techniques and applies them to a driving context to help you begin to build your confidence in your ability to drive straightaway.

Choose the techniques that appeal to you and commit to trying them on a regular basis to form new confidence-building habits and use them to create your own personal action plan. The course is mainly video-based, and also includes our confidence-building tools for you to download and use such as our Coaching Wheel, Learning Log, and Thought Log. We have included audios to help you manage your stress levels and we have also included some external links to resources that we feel you may find useful.

This course covers five main areas that can have an impact on your confidence, including managing negative thoughts, reducing fear of the unknown, creating driving successes, using imagery, and managing your stress levels.

Do not let anxiety or a lack of confidence stop hold you back from your driving freedom.

(Please note, this course does not teach you how to drive)

Who this course is for:

If you experience nerves or anxiety while driving or learning to drive this course has been created to help you transform the way you feel about driving.

Increase your driving confidence with an easy action plan

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 3min

Basic Overview of Confidence Building1 lecture • 2min

Managing Negative Thinking8 lectures • 15min

Reducing fear of the Unknown6 lectures • 15min

Creating driving success to build confidence5 lectures • 7min

Using imagery and visualisation to build your driving confidence6 lectures • 10min

Managing your stress levels16 lectures • 55min

Full Course Summary1 lecture • 1min

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