Welcome to the world of two learner drivers.
For the supervising parents, hubby and I, it is a time of nervous energy, trepidation and gripping of door handles.
It has to be done thanks to the new driving rules so with courage & patience we attached ‘L’ plates to vehicles and venture out in to the wide world of learner driving.
The first time I ventured out with my daughter was to practice reversing and driving forward in the driveway. We have quite a big space, thankfully, so this didn't go too badly.
The second 'adventure' was to simply drive around the block. Sounds simple doesn't it.
Getting down the driveway seemed to take forever and then trying to explain turning left on to our street was one thing but watching and experiencing her turn too sharply and end up with back wheel of the 4WD up on the kerb had me gripping the door handle and wishing we had stuck to reversing and going forward in the driveway.
That was over six months ago now and our Learner Driver adventures continue.
Do you remember your first driving lesson? What are your earliest memories of driving?
Can you relate to this story?
Have you ever just wanted to just get away from the daily routine? Break out for a couple of days and try something completely different.
Well, I have the opportunity to do exactly that last month.
I had the privilege of being thrown together with a group of women I didn’t know as part of the inaugural Outback Initiatives 3-Day Intensive Leadership for Women Program.
I say privilege because during the course of the program I discovered kindred spirits, women who demonstrated the very best of human beings – we were tried (and tired), we were challenged and sometimes even defeated. Through it all we learnt to be supportive of each other, to communicate clearly and appropriately in order to achieve our assigned tasks. The tasks by the way were not easy! Some of them sucked but in fact that was exactly the point. The end result was a tightly knit group of special individuals who worked together as a team. The skills I learnt and reinforced are things I use every day in my personal and business life about how to listen and communicate effectively to achieve my goals. Thanks to this program I also saved a precious relationship with my step-daughter that I didn’t know I was ruining. For that I will always be thankful. The amazing team at Outback Initiatives are experts in what they do. They each provide an enormous amount of compassion, patience, kindness and insight in order to facilitate what I can only describe as an amazing and transformative learning experience. I highly recommend Outback Initiatives programs and encourage anyone to check them out at www.outbackin.com.au
