The Cost of the Course has beed reduced to $195 per participant

The 2008 Course Director is Leigh Jackson

Our 2008 Dates are: Friday June 13 to Thursday June 19

Forms from the 2008 course and other information.

Cost $195, a $100 deposit holds your slot

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Registration Form with Personal Resource Questionnaire  (Doc) (PDF)

OLST Training Opportunity Prior to Woodbadge

In 1911, four years after Scouting began in Great Britain, Lord Baden-Powell began training Scouters through a series of lectures. This led to the first Wood Badge training course for Scoutmasters held eight years later at Gilwell Park near London. In 1936, an experimental Wood Badge course was conducted in the United States at the Schiff Scout Reservation. Then in 1948, the first American Wood Badge course was introduced in the United States as advanced training for trainers of Boy Scout leaders. Wood Badge soon became recognized as the premier training program for adult leaders.

In June 2008, Transatlantic Council will carry on this great Scouting tradition by conducting Wood Badge Course number NE-II-164 at Camp Freedom, Germany. The course will follow the new Wood Badge for the 21st Century syllabus that was introduced in 2001. This course is for all Scouters: Cub Scout leaders, Boy Scout leaders, Venturing leaders, and council and district leaders. The focus is on leadership skills, not outdoor skills.

Wood Badge training consists of two parts, a one-week practical phase taught at Camp Freedom, and an application phase in your own unit. During the practical phase, training will be modeled around unit meetings followed by a two night unit camping activity. As you go through the week, you'll define a set of goals that form your "Wood Badge Ticket." The ticket specifies ways that you will apply what you've learned during the week to help your unit and Scouting grow and improve. In the second phase of Wood Badge training, you will accomplish your ticket goals - "work your ticket." You can take as long as 18 months to complete your ticket, and you determine when your ticket is complete. Upon completion you
will be entitled wear the Wood Badge consisting of two wooden beads on a leather thong. Accompanying the Wood Badge is a taupe neckerchief with a bit of MacLaren tartan, a leather woggle, and a parchment certificate.

Just the facts...

• Course Title: Wood Badge for the 21st Century

• NE-II-187
  

• Location: Grafenwohr
  
• Date: Friday 13 June 2008 to Thursday 19 June 2008
  
• See the course invitation above for further information