Driving With A Difference
WHAT IS DRIVING WITH A DIFFERENCE?
Driving with a Difference
1 day workshops which provide a conversational space to reflect
upon, expand
and reassess your understanding of what it means to drive.
The workshop gives you the opportunity to:
• recognise differences in styles between drivers
• develop supportive beliefs and habits
• explore how you make a difference as a driver
• become a new generation driver, more understanding, flexible and controlled
(because it is you in the driver’s seat, not your fuzzy assumptions)
• interact with your peers to discuss driving
• learn how to critically deal with the complexity and pressures of driving
WHO CAN ATTEND?
Provisional licensed drivers,
usually within the first six months of gaining a license which are the most crucial for young drivers.
- Groups of 20 people are led by facilitators skilled in conducting group discussion.
and exploring ideas about
personal driving history, attitudes to driving, and driving optimism levels,
participants will discover more about themselves and cultures of driving.
Develop self control not just car control.
BENEFITS
The Driving with a Difference workshops offer the chance to:
• assess and share your experiences on the
roads
• find out more about yourself have your say about being a young driver
• talk about the road conditions that drive you crazy
• learn strategies that help you cope with conditions inside and outside the vehicle (or driver!)
become a new generation driver
AVOID DEVELOPING BAD AND COSTLY HABITS
Driving is a part of a cultural landscape that young drivers already know quite well,
even if you don’t normally
think a lot about it. It involves skills and habits that become
more automatic with experience and these too are
not often discussed. Bad habits can become
as deeply entrenched as good ones.
SUMMARY
DRIVING WITH A DIFFERENCE is a new workshop-based approach to driver education being developed in Australia. Its ultimate aim is to reduce deaths and injuries amongst young drivers. It is centred on critical group discussion of the personal and cultural meanings of driving, and the role of the individual as part of a broader community of road users.
Road behaviour involves a lot more than laws: there’s a lot of cultural and emotional factors at work, such as the social pressures to speed or to drink/drive, or the appeals to personal freedom and rebellion in car advertisements and road movies.
The workshop applies critical inquiry to these aspects of driving which are as important as the skill of handling a car. The workshop helps to develop the skills needed to negotiate the complex social task of driving. Everyone says, ‘Yeah, I can drive’ as soon as they get their license but more young drivers are killed and seriously injured every year than any other age group.
Young drivers aged 17-25 years hold 16% of all licenses but represent about 25% of all serious injuries and fatalities.
Driving is not just about handling a car – it is also about negotiating traffic, other drivers, varying conditions on the roads, others in the car, your mood, your time and your desires.
It is about self control.