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Outdoor Leadership Training
- Outdoor Growth and Leadership 5 Month Seminar
January 15 - May 22, 2008
This outdoor leadership training course is designed
for aspiring or experienced outdoor instructors and any
others who desire extensive skills instruction and experience
with an emphasis on experiential learning, group process,
communications and counseling skills, leadership issues,
deep ecology and ecopsychology, and the use of ceremony
and ritual to enhance transformation and growth in the
outdoors. This course is a continuation and further application
of the skills and process introduced in the Fall
Session of our training program but is open to select individuals
as space permits.
The OUTDOOR GROWTH AND LEADERSHIP SEMINAR is uniquely
designed to create an experiential setting in which participants
can learn new skills, practice trip planning and logistics,
explore instructional approaches, and examine leadership
styles among a group of peers. Weekly classes explore
communication, examine learning models, discuss group
process, problem solving, and conflict resolution. Other
topics explored include deep ecology, ecopsychology,
and nature ritual. Participants begin to make decisions
and take responsibility early in the program for planning
and logistics, and are encouraged to assume leadership
roles at an early stage. Body awareness and centering,
including instruction in Tai Chi, is an integral part
of our training and is applied to learning such skills
as rockclimbing and skiing.
Weekend field sessions include training in rockclimbing,
ropes course and group initiatives, backcountry skiing,
snow and ice climbing, avalanche safety, and other technical
topics. Longer trips and training sessions involve wilderness
backpacking, canyon exploration, mountaineering, snow
camping, whitewater rafting, and a vision quest. Expeditions
planned and led by participants will go from the Colorado
Rockies to the canyons and rivers of Utah, Arizona, and
New Mexico.
Small group sessions offer the opportunity to explore
personal issues and practice using communications, counseling,
and group facilitation skills. You will be encouraged
to explore your personal values and self-imposed limitations--mental,
physical, emotional, and spiritual--and reach beyond
them. You will be asked to establish goals for your training
experience and develop a "personal growth" contract
to be shared within the group from whom you will be encouraged
to solicit feedback and support. |
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