Cognitive Navigation Course

Name: Cognitive Navigation Course
Start: 2026-03-05T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-05T17:15:00+00:00
Location: Grassington, Yorkshire Dales

Schedule

Thu Mar 05 2026 at 05:00 pm to 05:15 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Grassington, Yorkshire Dales | Skipton, EN

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?