week two - leadership and facilitation in outdoor education expeditions
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In which we explore facilitation and leadership in journey based expeditionsTRANSCRIPT
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FacilitationFacilitation
OEEDU 6002 Expeditioning - Week 2
What makes a good outdoor leader?
• In two groups, come up with the key
competencies of outdoor leaders
A competent leader is a combination of:
skill, attitude, knowledge, behaviour, confidence
and experience.
Remember these?
•Autocratic:
•Democratic:
•Abdicratic:
Remember these?
•Autocratic: telling / selling
•Democratic:
•Abdicratic:
Remember these?
•Autocratic: telling / selling
•Democratic: testing or consulting
•Abdicratic:
Remember these?
•Autocratic: telling / selling
•Democratic: testing or consulting
•Abdicratic: joining or delegating
Evolution of facilitation
1. Experience speaks for itself: learning and doing
2. Speaking for the experience-learning by telling
3. Debriefing the experience-learning through reflection
4. Directly frontloading the experience-direction with
reflection
5. Framing the experience-reinforcement with reflection
6. Indirectly frontloading the experience-redirection
before reflection
How have we framed or front
loaded the expedition?
Framing the expedition
• Self-development
• Leadership
• Community development
• Environmental / connections with
nature
Educational goals
• Self goals- group goals for expedition.
- Identify fears, concerns.
- Rank them over time Identify everyone’s physical,
psychological, emotional strength at the start.Community
focus: e.g. Food: group cooking / community
establishment
Educational goals
•Leadership- Move towards abdicratic style when possible
• i.e. leader is part of the group
- Use of questions to probe issues which
eventuate.
Educational goals
•Community focus- Food: group cooking / community establishment
Educational goals
•Human / Nature relationships- solo experiences and reflection within
journal - nightly reflections
Research topicResearch topic
Research topic
• Choose one aspect of the alpine environment
to research.
• Devise a creative method of delivering the
information to the rest of the group.
• The session is to be delivered during the
expedition.
Research topic
• Some possible topics are; - ecological history, early European/indigenous history,
flora/fauna, geology, introduced species, history of the
Alpine National Park.
• Facilitate the transference of knowledge
gained to the group members on leadership
day.
The route
• Which day will you lead?- create a route card for the whole day
• Catering- which meal on which day?
- who is to provide?
- dehydrator - keep it moving around the group
• Research topic- what will you choose?