Are you a Driving Instructor who would like to support your more nervous and anxious pupils?

If you are an ADI just discovering Confident Drivers for the first time let us give you a quick summary of the ways we can help you support your nervous and anxious students.

Become your student’s one-stop shop for not only learning to drive but also building their driving confidence.  With our paid plans, you can offer your students access to all the tools they need to master their driving anxiety and become calm and confident drivers alongside driving lessons with you.

Scroll down to find out more information about what's included in our plans or click below to go straight to the different plan options.

Alternatively, if you would like to understand more about driving nerves and anxiety, then one of our training courses could be what you are looking for.

We have two options, a beginners workshop and a more advanced six-week course.

Understand more about your student’s experiences and how the brain works. Learn to ask your student’s the most effective questions so you can make the best stress management recommendations tailored specifically to their needs.

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Many learners and new drivers struggle with feeling confident in their driving ability, either to pass their driving test or in those early days of driving alone once they have passed. As a driving instructor, this is probably familiar to you too?

That’s why we started Confident Drivers.  We help drivers who are lacking the confidence to explore why they feel the way they do about driving and start to become more confident behind the wheel using coaching tools, stress management techniques, video guides and audio. As a result, drivers are able to create their own confidence-building action plans so they will be able to become safer, calmer drivers and enjoy the freedom of driving without the fear.

We know how awful it feels when your student’s progress becomes stuck because of their driving nerves. You feel powerless and frustrated because you know they can drive. You want so badly to help your student’s overcome their battle with their own minds because you know then you’d be able to help them achieve their driving dreams and give them the opportunities that having a driving license offers.

Kev wasn’t always good at knowing what to do when students became anxious or panicky during driving lessons.  In the very early days, he prepared by having tissues in the car and learning an easy breathing exercise to suggest to students when needed. He soon went on to do the BTEC4 Coaching for Driver Development to learn more about coaching and taking a client-centred approach.  

Like many other ADIs, he knew he wanted to be able to offer a more effective way of supporting his students, that didn’t involve him being more like a therapist than a driving instructor!  So he asked his wife Tracey who specialises in Mindfulness and Stress Management for some simple tools he could share with his students to help.  And so the idea for  Confident Drivers came into existence.

Invite your students - Add your student's name and email address to your group plan and they will receive a welcome email with their login details and links to get started immediately.  

Add a text - If you add a students mobile number as well, they will also get a text prompt.

Print/laminate the downloadables - ADIs who are making the most of their subscription use the downloadable resources in lessons with their students. Downloads include two variations of the Coaching Wheel, a Reflective learning log and a Challenging negative thoughts log.  We find that students are more likely to engage if they see their driving instructor engaging with the materials too.

Advertise that students get access - Don't keep your subscription a secret!  Use Confident Drivers as a way to market your business.

Remind students to use their account - Send email reminders from your group membership.

View students progress - See which pages and techniques are most popular with your students.

Celebrate test pass success - Tag us in test pass posts on your social media and we will share your post.

Make space in your group - Your student group limit is a rolling figure, so when a student passes, delete them from your group to make space for a new student.

Complete your business listing - Send us details about your business so we can add you to our map of driving instructors and create a page dedicated to advertising you in your local area and linking back to your website.

Subscribing to an ADI group plan allows you to offer your learners access to all the resources on Confident Drivers as part of their driving lessons with you. In a similar way that you may be offering theory test training. This is a great marketing selling point for your business, adding extra value to your lessons and allowing you to charge at the higher range of lesson prices for your area.

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These plans are created specifically for driving instructors and their students.  We also have a range of individual plans created for learner drivers, you can find more details on our Learner Driver page.

Kev and Tracey Field regularly give talks and presentations to driving instructors on the subject of overcoming driving nerves and worries.  We also write a monthly article in DIA's Driver Trainer journal. Find out more about us, the story behind creating Confident Drivers and our experience in the driver training industry and beyond on our About Us page.