wood badge

[diamondbackAPL]

I have been reading these posts for quite some time now and there's still something I don't know.

what exactly is the wood badge??????
I had never heard of it before.

[commish3]

Wood Badge is the advanced leadership training course of every ADULT position in scouting in this country and most others. It's program varies from country to country. In the BSA Wood Badge has 5 central themes. They are: Living the Values, Bringing the Vsion to Life, Models for Success, Tools of the Trade, and Leading to Make a Difference.

You can learn more about Wood Badge at http://woodbadge.org

there you can get a history of the WB program which was first lead by Baden-Powell to todays BSA program called Wood Badge for the 21st Century.

[Mick Scouter]

Thanks Commish, I haven't got to looking at woodbadge yet.

[Scouting179]

If you see an adult with a leather thong around his neck with two wooden beads on the end, he's a Wood Badger, hence the name "Wood Badge".

[Woodbadgegirl]

Youth can take a course that is simular called White Stag!! I hear it's aweosme. My son will be taking it next year.

[commish3]

White Stag from what I see at their website is nothing like today's Wood Badge program. A much closer version of youth training to Wood Badge for the 21st Century is the BSA's NEW program, National Youth Leadership Training, which will premier this summer in most councils. It replaces The council level Junior Leader Training course (JLT).

[Woodbadgegirl]

So is White Stag like the older Woodbadge program???

[optimist]

Actually, it's the other way around. The Wood Badge most of us experienced during the late part of the 20th century was largely based on White Stag.

[commish3]

No woodbadgegirl, Wood Badge is older. But Wood Badge has had many formats. Like scouting it has changed and adapted as new methods of leadership have developed. For almost 30 years Wood badge and White Stag mirrored each other. But White Stage existed in scouting for about 20 years before Wood Badge adopted its materials. White Stag was produced as JLT but some councils kept the name White Stag while others called it by other names such as Birch Bark.

Now that Wood Badge has again grown into a new format and JLT was changed to Youth Leader Development Training, I do not know if the ares that originated White Stag wil keep with its format or not. It is a very good program and its skills are still valid it is simply different than the new program.

You can learn more about it at http://www.whitestag.org

[Eamonn]

http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/hqd ... 145001.pdf
Is a very good fact sheet put out by the British Scout Association.
It covers the early days of Wood Badge starting in 1919.
While nearly every country that has Scouting does have a Wood Badge course, Wood Badge courses are not the same in every country.
The course now offered in the UK no longer uses patrol names. However when you look at the list of topics covered in the UK Section Leader Training you see:
The following modules of the new Adult Training Scheme are covered:

05 Fundamental Values of Scouting
06 Changes in Scouting
07 Valuing Diversity
08 Skills of Leadership
09 Working with Adults
11 Administration (Section Leaders)
12 Providing a Balanced Programme
13 Growing the Movement (Section Leaders)
14 Young People Today
15 Challenging Behaviour
16 Nights Away
17 Activities
18 Practical Skills
19 International
Which in a lot of ways is not that far from a course that some of us might know something about.