My Great Struggle

Up to 30 years young, I thought something was seriously wrong with me. Ten people in a room would speak their truths, nine would be similar or identical, and one would be very different, mine. I thought something was wrong with me being so very different. Being different in my childhood was labelled as wrong and bad. I believed these two ignorant words for decades.

But at thirty years old, I had a revelation. I was different because I saw things differently than most. I have also learned to question the norm and question social pressures and conforming.

With this new reality I quickly became the top manager for several companies without being trained. Neither of which I was educated to perform, but I did it based solely on my determination to learn and produce change and improvements. My think-different than most was a huge advantage.

COOPER

Anxiety, fears and extreme concerns about driving

Most clients who come to me describe their situations using words from those around them.

  • Get over it.
  • Just do it.
  • Nothing to worry about.
  • It’s easy.

Maybe all along your life to date, your concerns of driving have been honest and accurate. Perhaps you were the only one in the room who could see the reality of driving, the real risks of driving. Additionally, many clients receive massive inputs from the environment far beyond what most drivers process; car sounds, road noise, bumps, tire crunches, headlights three blocks behind us, kids or pedestrians in front and side moving sideways towards our path.

Your brain may have been processing the real danger when most ignored it. A faster deeper data collection. Maybe.

I have always been concerned about the true risk when driving. As a teen, my friends partying in cars would make sure I was dragged along because I was the one that kept the gang away from trouble in cars! Early On, after losing several friends to cars, I realized that our greatest danger growing up was the car!

Come embrace your own vision of what driving is, what is should be, and how you can bring your own voice to the world of driving Your Way. A comfortable way. The Calm Driving Way.

Learning to drive with anxiety and fear is possibly your greatest motivation to really understand this driving game. Come share my lifetime of study of car crashes and driving. Together come disassemble all your movements and choose from everything I have ever learned about each movement. Come learn what I have discovered on my life long journey searching for “what is a good driver?”

Cooper’s History of Training & Education

Cooper’s Qualifications

British Columbia Training

  • Classroom Instructor Justice Institute of British Columbia Graduated License Program
  • Driving Instructors License ICBC
  • Airbrake Course BCDL #0384898
  • Commercial Professional Driver Development Program
  • Class 4 Unrestricted License — Special Needs Bus
  • HUB Cycling Instructor Certification
  • Occupational First Aid Level 1 #009709
  • Driver Training School License DTC#: 2289

Ontario Safety League

  • Driving Instructor DI Certificate #105569
  • Advanced Classroom Instructor ACI Certificate #105568
  • Techniques of Instruction TI Certificate #105567
  • 55 Stay Alive Instructor
  • Defensive Driving Course Instructor

Road Safety Educators Association

  • Trauma Course
  • Decision Making & The Driving Task
  • The Aging Process
  • Road Safety Facilitators Program
  • Evaluators Assessors Training
  • Disease Effects and Driving
  • Cognitive Stressors & Driving

More

  • Skid School 8 Years
  • Drove Throughout China for 7 Years
  • Senior Assessor Applied Research Cell Phone Studies
  • Class 6 License – Motorbike 30 Years
  • Extensive Fleet & Corporate Training
  • Car Crash Research
  • Senior Executive – Group Change Management & Systems Change Management
  • New Canadian Drivers

Compare this to the training driving instructors receive in B.C.

  • Be at least 19 years of age
  • 3 Years driving experience
  • 13 Days training at an instructor’s course