Leading the Way

Quality, Safety, and Inclusion in Led Outdoor Activity

Service Specialities

 
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Risk Management

Good Risk Management provides a strong platform not only for safety, but the efficient delivery of high quality program that will achieve your organizational goals.

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Strategic Planning

Building the organization or program that will achieve your vision requires careful and detailed planning that considers the many complex internal and external forces that can frustrate your goals, or put wind in your sails.

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Learning Community

Effective Field Leader Learning Communities require effective internal processes, and an authoritative link to the Led Outdoor Activity Sector to ensure best practices are employed

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Field Leader Training

The Outdoor Council of Canada’s ‘Field Leader Training Program’ is the national standard for training, certifying and developing your teams excellence in the delivery of high-quality low-risk programs

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Guiding Services

I provide multi-day mountain guiding services in summer and winter. Most are hut-to-hut trips. Winter trips are for strong skiers looking for remote adventures. Summer trips are spectacular ‘glacier-hiking’ adventures for strong hikers (No climbing required)

Inclusion

Outdoor Education and Activity are powerful tools for developing and maintaining social skills, psychological resilience, and active lifestyles. Properly supported and delivered, they are in-expensive and accessible to people of all abilities. Unfortunately, access to outdoor education and activity are not available to most young Canadians because Canada lacks the organizational and training framework to deliver universal inclusive programming.

I volunteer on several projects that seek to address this lack of access. They are:

  • The Curriculum Committee for the Outdoor Council of Canada. This committee is steward of the ‘Field Leader Program’, and integrated program that supports the development of entry level outdoor leaders to provide high-quality low-risk programming, especially for youth.

  • Workgroup 3 of the Canadian Outdoor Summit is working toward a national consensus on how the Led Outdoor Activity Sector can construct a ‘National Framework’ for the training and mentoring of outdoor leaders.

  • The Calgary Sport Hub is collaboration between the City, the Calgary Board of Education, and sport organizations that will provide inclusive sport and outdoor activity programs to children and youth in school, after school and in the community.