A Night In Training serves as an example of what a spring training could look like. Each training is led by managers and supported by mentors who work to give leaders hands-on experience with skills they will use on trail.
7:00-7:05
- Gather as a full group and go over the agenda.
7:05-7:20
- Learn from the mentors how to tie a taut-line hitch knot in home groups. After practicing, teach your fellow group members how to tie it.
- Home groups are groups of 5-8 leaders and 2-3 mentors; many training activities and discussions are facilitated in home groups.
7:20-8:20
- Practice facilitation in small groups through a group scenario about managing conflict among BOLTers.
- In BOLT, we use mock scenarios to gain experience managing challenging situations that we might encounter in a BOLT group or on a BOLT trip.
8:20-8:30
- Break time!
8:30-8:40
- Mentors lead an energizer.
- Energizers help get blood flowing and prepare us to engage with the next activity.
8:40-9:40
- Mentors and managers teach how to set up a sleeping tarp.
- Leaders practice setting up the tarps in their home groups.
9:40-10:00
- Debrief technical skills practice with home groups.
- “Debriefing” means having a conversation with a deeper awareness of how everyone is participating and how the conversation can be useful in the future.
- Pulse as a large group.
- At the end of each training, everyone gathers in a circle to share announcements, gratitude, and updates.
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