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  1. Yes, that's what the oft-quoted Troop Method rules are for: To keep the six-month Patrol Leaders weak, so that "Real" Patrols are viewed as an irresponsible pipe dream. As for Sentinel's question: As the title "Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops" (ILST) implies, this is Troop Method Training. It appears to be written by the same Wood Badge committee that produced the Program-Neutered 25 minute "Patrol Method" presentation in Scoutmaster Specific Training. To Program Neuter is to surgically remove the Patrol Leader and any description of a worki
  2. Sentinel, You use William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt's term "Real Patrols," which means Patrols in which the Patrol Leader moves his Scouts through Physical Space. The quickest route to such Patrol Awareness is to physically separate your ad hoc Training Patrols by Baden-Powell's 300 feet, as was once the common custom in American Wood Badge. Make sure you call their attention to that Physical Space. It seems obvious, but it is not. Also from American Wood Badge is the Patrol Hike and Patrol Overnight, which you could do Saturday night. The idea being that "Real" Patrol
  3. Boy-led, as in Patrol hikes and overnights without SPL, JASM, or adult helicopters? Or boy-led as in the whole Troop Method?
  4. Moot but not mute Our Scouts still use airplane mode camera and music functions on trails with no service. Which are increasingly rare: On the Atlantic Ocean leg of the Cumberland Island backpack trip (URL above), I had a constant signal to send continuous Facebook photo updates to families and friends worried about the severe thunderstorm forecast that day. See "Cumberland Island National Seashore: Day One" https://plus.google.com/100437668559826261011/posts
  5. I've always thought that we could get Wood Badge back from the Den Leaders if we moved "leadership skills" to the University of Scouting, and then forced everyone to call them "Doctor."
  6. Shouting a lie does not make it true, CAPSLOCK.
  7. I'm surprised nobody has suggested American Wood Badge football: You eliminate the skills required to physically move your team 300 feet between goals, and instead play "The Game of Life" in the end zone.
  8. Yeah, the kind of thing an HQ Eagle would say who believes "Our mission, values and desired outcomes of leadership and character development haven’t changed since that first campout on Brownsea Island." We have two set of rules in our Troop. The indoor dads don't allow electronics on their car camp outings. Same for summer camp, which in my book is just summer school, so the same rules should apply as in school. However, I actively encourage electronics for activities that I organize, which is to say outings in which Scouts use their muscles and the physical leadership of
  9. I used to be Bruce Tuckman and a corporate raider too. Now I've destroyed "Real" Patrols I know just what to do. I'll form and storm more outdoor skills just to follow through. Back to Gilwell. Parking lot. The Staffers call it Wood Badge but it's not.
  10. It is a testament to the destructive power of Wood Badge that neither of you thought of Baden-Powell's version of an "Eagle Project" as an alternative to paperwork leadership skills that most outdoor boys hate. You know, 50 miles of backpacking or canoe.
  11. "The real Patrol Leader will...find that the requirements are not something separate from Scouting. On the contrary, Scouting is the Requirements " (William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt). http://inquiry.net/patrol/
  12. Baden-Powell called such First Class, Star, Life and Eagle projects "Journeys" and "Expeditions," the final test of each rank. However, they were based on mileage as well as nights, with the equivalent to Eagle being 50 miles through wild country on foot or afloat, or 200 miles by horseback. http://inquiry.net/advancement/traditional/journey_requirements.htm
  13. The Hayekian Liberty of Ender’s Game http://blog.acton.org/archives/66809-hayekian-liberty-enders-game.html by Joe Carter on Thursday, March 13, 2014 My conversion into a fan of science-fiction began with an unusual order from a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “Each Marine shall read a minimum of three books from the [Commandant’s Professional Reading List] each year.†Included on the list of books suitable for shaping the minds of young Lance Corporals like me were two sci-fi novels: Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and Orson Scott
  14. That is the purpose of ItOLS: To teach indoor volunteers how to sign off Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class in about 20 hours, the same number of hours as most "first year" summer camp programs. Baloney, OldScout, Baloney! Baden-Powell had the same problem 100 years ago. So he designed Wood Badge for 20th century indoor volunteers who spent most of their life at a desk, as a week-long immersion course in how to think like woodsmen. Wood Badge for the 21st century teaches indoor volunteers that success formula "leadership skills" they can use in their life at a desk, a
  15. That is the purpose of ItOLS: To teach indoor volunteers how to sign off Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class in about 20 hours, the same number of hours as most "first year" summer camp programs. Baloney, OldScout, Baloney! Baden-Powell had the same problem 100 years ago. So he designed Wood Badge for 20th century indoor volunteers who spent most of their life at a desk, as a week-long immersion course in how to think like woodsmen. Wood Badge for the 21st century teaches indoor volunteers that success formula "leadership skills" they can use in their life at a desk, a
  16. SSScout: According to the organizers of the meeting I attended, Catholics are welcome because they are Trinitarian Christians. Trail Life adult membership policy seems to be along the same lines as Baden-Powell's greatest rival, "The British Boy Scouts," also know as the "Nicene Creed Scouts."
  17. Precisely the same misunderstanding of military scouting forced B-P to write a boys' version of his book Aids to Scouting for NCOs & Men. B-P was a vocal opponent of military drill for army reconnaissance patrols. He invented games like Capture the Flag and Spider & Fly to teach his patrol system and scouting skills to army men, not boys. http://inquiry.net/outdoor/games/b-p...ng/a2s_167.htm Boys who like to play army snatched up the book and made it a best-seller. But when youth workers took notice and invited the famous military hero to review their Boys Brigade, YMCA,
  18. Yeah, Acco, get with the program! Scouting was popular 100 years ago because boys wanted to play army reconnaissance patrol. Scouting for the 21st century is designed for adults who want to play office. Apothecus needs a Junior Achievement branch manager, not a Patrol Leader!
  19. ~ Obviously you are the one who wants to hand pick the leader. I said to throw them all together without job titles six months before the next election, and the Natural Leader will emerge.
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