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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?