Dear MRM Workshop Leader,

The Swedish Club Academy, cordially invites you to an MRM Workshop Leader meeting at The Swedish Club's head office in Gothenburg, Sweden. The main objectives with the meeting will be to improve your performance as workshop leader and provide a forum for exchange of views with the purpose of further enhancing the standards of course contents and training. A highly experienced guest speaker, Mr Gunnar Fahlgren, former airline pilot and author of the book Life Resource Management, CRM & Human Factors, will contribute to our meeting with interesting presentations based on his extensive experience from human factors and resource management training.

We hope that you shall find the event most rewarding.

Date: 17-18 February 2010

Venue: The Swedish Club, Gothenburg, Sweden. 
Visiting address: Gullbergs Strandgata 6. (Click here for map.)

Invited: All certified and prospective workshop leaders working for MRM training providers. The prospective workshop leaders will be attending also an Introductory Day on 16 February.

Seminar fee: Euro 500 for certified WSL. The fee includes the programme, coffee/tea breaks, lunch, dinner on 17 February and the book Life Resource Management, CRM & Human Factors by Gunnar Fahlgren. For prospective WSLs, attending also on 16 February, there will be an additional fee of Euro 250. The seminar fee will be invoiced upon confirmation of your seat.

Travel: To be arranged by the participant.

Accommodation: To be arranged by the participant. Information about accommodation in Gothenburg is available here. The accommodation closest to The Swedish Club office is the floating Hotel Ibis Göteborg City. It is one of the least expensive hotels in the area but of reasonable standard. 

Further information: Please contact:
Martin Hernqvist, The Swedish Club Academy.
E-mail: martin.hernqvist@swedishclub.com. Telephone: +46 31 638400.
Mobile: +46 706 313299.

Biography, Mr Gunnar Fahlgren: 
In 1990, after 42 years as pilot, military and commercial, he retired as captain from Scandinavian Airlines System, where he also worked as Flight Instructor, Chief Pilot and CAA inspector.

He has studied psychology at Stockholm University, Human Factors at Cranfield University and has been a speaker at Human Factors Seminars in Tokyo, Sydney, Washington, Boston, Brussels, Dublin, Rome, Bahrain, Lausanne and Montreal.

He is certified by the Swedish CAA to conduct seminars for pilots on Human Performance and Limitations and is now working as a Human Factors consultant in Sweden. His list of clients worldwide is extensive and he has conducted Human Factors courses for thousands of pilots from all over the world. He has also been involved in training of maritime captains and pilots.

Since 1984 he has been responsible for Human Factors education for SAS captains. In 1993, IATA asked him to join their Human Factors Working Group and he was selected as a member of the ICAO Human Factors Study Group, and The Royal Aeronautical Society CRM Working Group.

PROGRAM

Tuesday, February 16th - Introductory Day for prospective WSLs

09.00 - 17:00

For prospective WSLs only or certfied WSLs who would like a refresher on MRM, its background, concept and contents.

Wednesday, February 17th

09.00 - 10:00

• Registration, opening of the meeting and introduction
  Practical information, the agenda, brief update by participants of current status of MRM training for target groups in local market.

10.00 - 15:00 (including lunch break)

• Guest speaker Mr Gunnar Fahlgren
      10.00 - 10.45   Human Factors - your own and others
      11.00 - 12.00   Stress management, attitudes, behaviour
      12.00 - 13.00   Lunch
      13.00 - 13.45   Memory, decision-making
      14.00 - 15.00   Communication

15.00 - 17:00

• Key factors for successful facilitation
• Optional: WSL input and presentations
  An opportunity for the participant who so wish to share with the group any information or material related to MRM or training in general. This could be useful tips and tricks or just food for thought. We hope that many Workshop Leaders shall take this opportunity. For planning purposes, please contact Martin Hernqvist and inform about your topic and the expected time requirement.

Dinner in the evening 

Thursday, February 18th

09.00 - 14:00

• Current and future MRM
  Comments on present course outline and contents. What's coming next: - New Introduction - Updated Attitudes module (including the "Attitude Survey") - Updated Culture module. IMO and the STCW review. Other ideas and requirements for the future.
• Concluding Lunch