Session 1: Pre-Qualifier Drive
- Experience driving with no lead car ahead
- Real-time feedback on your route choices and control
- Evaluation of your ability to handle terrain, flow, and focus simultaneously
This session helps us confirm you have the vehicle control, presence of mind, and situational awareness required for the next stages. Only those who meet the safety and performance threshold proceed—because leadership must be built on a solid foundation.
Session 2: Navigation Essentials
- Spatial awareness and route planning under dynamic conditions
- Use of maps, GPS tools, waypoints, and visual terrain cues
- Point-to-point navigation for efficient, flowing drives
- Anticipating changes in direction and terrain for better decision-making
This is where you begin to think like a marshal—constantly adjusting, recalibrating, and choosing the best possible path for those behind you.
Session 3: Lead Skills & Terrain Reading
- Identifying safe tracks, optimal climbs, and efficient crossings
- Reading dune formations to predict what lies beyond each crest
- Mastering techniques to enter, exit, and transition through complex dunes
- Decision-making under pressure with a convoy following your lead
This session builds your confidence to lead a team through unpredictable environments—balancing risk, flow, and the safety of those behind you.
By the end of the Lead & Navigation Program, you will have the foundational knowledge to safely guide a small convoy through the desert. You’ll understand how a lead car plans, communicates, and adapts during a drive. More importantly, you’ll have the confidence to navigate where no road exists—and lead others there with skill.
– Lesley
This has been one of the best learning experiences. Marshall Ghassan is extremely knowledgeable,pateint and enthusiastic to share his expertise of navigating and driving as lead. This is also a perfect opportunity to become more aware of desert terrain, and challenging yourself. For sure you will complete this program with a sense of achievement and a passion to continue learning. Throughout these sessions safety is foremost and the learning environment is excellent in that you are encouraged all the way, every decision is a learning experience.
Thank you for an incredible program I never ever imagined before that I would be good enough to even attempt. If you have a sense of adventure and exploration this is the perfect opportunity.
– Yaser Jabbar (verified owner)
This has been a great experience
The teacher was professional and knew how to spot strengths and weaknesses so you make progress and aren’t getting bored
I feel much more confident entering the desert and having a sense of how to pick up and maintain driving flow
Really happy and feel I have a better foundation to build on