Joint Wood Badge Course Being Offered by SELA and Pine Burr Area Councils!
Why Wood Badge?
2018 Wood Badge Brochure
Wood Badge Course Overview
The Wood Badge training course is open to EVERY registered adult volunteer in Scouting. Wood Badge is a course that all Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Varsity Scout, Venturing, District and Council level leaders and volunteers should take! Wood Badge focuses on team building and developing your leadership skills. The skills you learn at Wood Badge not only help you be a more effective volunteer and leader within your home unit, or Scouting position, but you can take the skills you learn into your job, family life or other organizations you work with and improve there as well!
Scouter Leaders must complete the basic training courses appropriate for their Scouting position.
The following information is designed to help provide you with key information about the training.
Wood Badge Course Delivery
The Wood Badge program consists of two phases: the learning experience and the application phase. The learning experience is set in an indoor and an outdoor environment where the course reflects unit meetings and a unit camping activity. The Boy Scout troop simulation provides a framework in which to practice the leadership skills introduced in the course. A natural bridge between the various Scouting programs is modeled.
Wood Badge Objectives
As a result of attending Wood Badge participants will be able to:
- View Scouting globally, it is a family of interrelated, values-based programs that provide age-appropriate activities for youth
- Recognize the contemporary leadership concepts utilized in corporate America and leading government organizations that are relevant to our values-based movement
- Apply the skills they learn from their participation as a member of a successful working team
- Revitalize their commitment by sharing in an overall inspirational experience that helps provide Scouting with the leadership it needs to accomplish its mission on an ongoing basis
Wood Badge Five Central Themes
The course follows five central themes:
- Living the Values
- Bringing the Vision to Life
- Models for Success
- Tools of the Trade
- Leading to Make a Difference
Course Dates
The format for the Wood Badge Course is two 3-day weekends separated by four weeks.
The second weekend participants cook their own meals. Participants must attend at least one interim patrol meeting between the first and second weekends of the course. The specific time and location is determined by patrol members.
Orientation - Saturday, January 20th - 9:30 a.m. - Noon (Location TBD)
Weekend # 1 Friday, February 23, 2018 - 7:30 am through Sunday, February 25, 2018 - 4:00 pm-Camp Tiak, North of Wiggins, MS
Weekend # 2 Saturday, March 17, 2018 - 7:30 through Monday, March 19, 2018 - 4:00 pm-Salmen Scout Reservation
Registration Details
This course is SOLD OUT!
For other questions, please contact Mark Young (Mark_Young@cox.net) or Gene Milford (golleum@yahoo.com). They will be happy to answer any questions.
Every Scout deserves a well-trained leader!!