Drive with Confidence Level 7 Professional Diploma - Autumn 2025 Online
Stress Management, Anxiety Reduction & Confidence Building in Driver Training
A recognised qualification programme for ADIs working with nervous or anxious drivers
This Diploma Programme is for you because:
- You are feeling stuck about how to support your anxious students
- You wish you understood which questions to ask them and why
- You want simple, practical tools that work to use in driving lessons
- You are keen to take action and apply what you learn into your driving lessons
- You are looking for training that leads to a recognised qualification
It's normal to feel uncertain about how best to help anxious students—after all, this topic is rarely covered in your part three training!
Where do you start?
How do you know what will work?
Will the same thing work for everyone?
Imagine how it would feel, when you know the questions to ask, you have tried and tested our tools in lessons while completing your assignments, giving you the experience of adapting lessons to suit your students.
Plus being able to advertise that you have completed a recognised qualification in confidence building and supporting anxious students!
Diploma Programme Summary
This qualification aims to enable Approved and Potential Driving Instructors (ADIs & PDIs) or other professionals responsible for drivers in their company to develop their knowledge and understanding of driving anxiety and basic psychology concepts for stress management and confidence building.
Diploma Learning Outcomes
- Understand questioning techniques to support those with driving anxiety
- Understand the brain and anxiety
- Explore the links between neurodiversity and anxiety
- Identify potential causes of driving anxiety
- Adapt techniques to the specific needs and circumstances of each driver
15 credit points indicates that this qualification programme takes on average 150 hours to complete.
Diploma Dates
Unit 1 - Monday 6th October - 9.30am to 4pm
Unit 2 - Monday 10th November - 9.30am to 4pm
Unit 3 - Monday 8th December - 9.30am to 4pm
Unit 4 - Monday 12th January - 9.30am to 4pm
Study sessions will be arranged for evenings between each unit.
Register your interest to be kept up to date with details, bookings open in July 2025
WANT TO GET A HEAD START?
Register for our next six-week Drive Calm course to become familiar with the content, without needing to do assignments.
You can then upgrade from Drive Calm to the Diploma in July by paying the difference, helping you to spread the cost and get ahead.
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Course Pricing
Cost will be £1444
Pay in full, or spread the cost over monthly payments to suit your budget.
Note that for those paying by instalments, you will not receive your qualification certificate until your payment schedule has been completed.
Register your interest to be kept up to date with when bookings open in July 2025.
The Drive with Confidence professional diploma consists of four units covering:
* Unit 1 - Effective questioning
* Unit 2 - The Brain and Anxiety
* Unit 3 - Neurodiversity and Anxiety
* Unit 4 - Confidence Building
Drive with Confidence Diploma graduates also benefit from a 50% discount for The Co-Pilot Community networking platform.
Unit One
This unit focuses on questions.
Why we ask questions.
Which questions we ask.
How to ask coaching questions.
Unit Two
This unit focus on the brain.
How we store information.
Where our emotions come from.
Emotional Regulation.
The Mind / Body Connection.
Unit Three
This unit looks at neurodiversity.
Neurodiversity basics.
Executive Functioning challenges.
How to adapt to suit the individual
Plus some myth busting.
Unit Four
This unit is about confidence.
Importance of confidence building
Key factors to build confidence.
Practical tools to use in lessons.
Courses Included:
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Dates:
The Drive with Confidence professional diploma is designed with your busy schedule in mind. The content consists of both live (online) and pre-recorded sessions. The qualification can be completed over 12 months.
If you can't make it to the live online sessions, don't worry. You can catch up online at your own pace and repeat the online modules free of charge on future cohorts.
The content for Unit 1, 2 & 4 is from our current six-week Drive Calm® course.
The content for Unit 3 is from our Neurodiversity Champion workshop.
Following attending the content modules, you will then be asked to complete a series of tasks and assignments to demonstrate that you have applied what you have learnt into your lessons.
There will be regular online group study sessions to help you work through your assignments.
15 credit points indicates that this qualification programme takes on average 150 hours to complete.
If you have previously attended the above courses with us, contact us for your 'top-up' price for the professional diploma.
Drive with Confidence Diploma graduates also benefit from a 50% discount for The Co-Pilot Community networking platform.
Qualification Assignments
A qualification programme has to follow set criteria, with content designed around learning outcomes. Those learning outcomes need to be measurable, which we do through a series of assignments. Participants submit assignments to demonstrate that the learning outcome has been met. The assignments are assessed and internally verified. The result is that participants apply what they learn in the course and submit evidence demonstrating that learning has taken place.
This qualification has been SCQF credit-rated by the Scottish Qualifications Authority.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority have 12 levels in their qualifications framework which is different to the frameworks in England and Wales and Europe. The SCQF Level 7 is equivalent to a Level 4 qualification (i.e. BTEC) in England and Wales and a Level 5 qualification in Europe.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a recognised qualification?
Yes, this is an SCQF level 7, equivalent to a level 4 qualification (i.e. a BTEC) in England & Wales.
Why did you go to the Scottish Qualifications Authority and not Ofqual or Pearson for a BTEC?
Pearson are not currently working with third parties to offer bespoke or customised BTEC qualifications.
Credit rating with Ofqual involves using a third-party training centre; those we spoke to were only willing to offer CPD accreditation.
We wanted to create a qualification where participants evidence that they have applied what they learned.
I've already attended the 6 week Drive Calm course - do I have to pay again?
No, we will offer an 'upgrade' price from your current training into the qualification, so you do not have to pay again.
There is also an 'upgrade' option for previous participants of the Neurodiversity Champion workshop.
If I sign up for the 6 week Drive Calm course, or Neurodiversity Champion workshop now, will I still be entitled to an 'upgrade' price?
Yes, not only will you spread the cost, but starting with these now is a great way to get a head start on the qualification programme, then upgrade when you feel ready. We also allow participants to re-attend free of charge on future cohorts of Drive Calm.
I've already attended neurodiversity training elsewhere - do I have to repeat your training and assignments?
If your previous neurodiversity training is current (completed in the past two years) and you have been applying what you learnt on an ongoing basis, it may fall under our Recognition of Prior Learning policy. Get in touch with us so we can discuss details.
How long will I have to complete assignments?
You will have 12 months from the start of the cohort to complete your assignments. We'll be sure to keep in touch as you near the 12-month deadline to support you in either completing assignments or extending the deadline.
Are the assignments all essays?
No, the assignments are not intended to judge your writing skills! You can use different mediums, such as bullet points, graphics, audio, and video, to present evidence that you have achieved a learning outcome. Let us know if you have an idea we haven't thought of for submitting your evidence. We do not want the worry of writing essays to be a barrier to learning.
Kev and Tracey Field
