Cognitive Navigation Course

This 1-day Cognitive Navigation course in the Yorkshire Dales is ideal for hill-walkers who want to move away from being ‘passive’ navigators using phones and apps to become ‘cognitive’ navigators who are more in tune with their surroundings.

The ‘cognitive map’ hypothesis is that our brains build a representation of our spatial environment to support memory and guide future action through place, distance, direction and decision making. These are the building blocks of human thought, which are integral and essential for navigation.

Cognitive maps are formed through journeying, exploration and discovery. From the earliest age to the end of our lives, we develop cognitive maps in our brains. This is a progression as we develop from crawling around our homes to navigating across the mountains. Evidence shows there to be knowledge gaps with GPS use, so that we may be able to get to a location using GPS but we don’t know how we got to that location. A deeper question is therefore: what is the purpose of navigation?

You may also like the following events from TeamWalking - Hill Skills & Outdoor Adventures, with Mark Reid FRGS:

• Next Monday, 21st July, 09:00 am, Northumberland Coast Path in Belford
• Next month, 22nd August, 09:30 am, Nature of the Yorkshire Dales in Horton In Ribblesdale
• Next month, 23rd August, 09:30 am, NNAS Bronze Navigation Skills course in Skipton

Also check out other Workshops in Horton in Ribblesdale.