training

GREAT NEWS!! We’re hosting ‘New Leader Training’ at the Lockerbrook centre this December, March & September 2015.

Members are welcome to come along and take part in a weekend of different workshops focused on supporting our children and young people in the movement.

Last month Woodcraft Folk pilotted the New Group Journey - a new online training resource for new groups and new volunteer leaders. The resource is the first step in creating an accessible training format for our thousands of volunteers.

Following additional funding from the National Voluntary Organisations in Scotland Fund, Woodcraft Folk are now looking to add to its online training resources by creating two new modules:

We've begun to use online seminars (webinars) to offer training to our members. Every year we succesfully host a number of webinars on a range of subject that will support you in your role as a Woodcraft Folk volunteer.

Over recent months Woodcraft Folk have been piloting new ways to support local volunteers to engage with training. Today we are launching a series of new onlne introductory modules for new leaders and new groups - New Group Journey. The online module brings together everything leaders need to know to get started and looks at the following topics:

Over recent months Woodcraft Folk have been piloting new ways to support local volunteers to engage with training. Today we are launching a series of new onlne introductory modules for new leaders and new groups - New Group Journey. The online module brings together everything leaders need to know to get started and looks at the following topics:

Woodcraft Folk has run many weekends of training for leaders of various ages. Although the activities we use have developed a bit as we've tried to make these weekends as accessible as possible to younger leaders (eg Venturers), our approach is that everyone can participate in the same course, whatever their age, if they're new to leadership. 

Please find above a recording of an online seminar that took place in March 2014 - Introduction to Special Educational Needs. For more information about including children and young people with additional support needs please visit www.woodcraft.org.uk/inclusion

Woodcraft Folk strive to be inclusive, open and accessible to all, with this aim in mind Woodcraft Folk began a series of online seminars in March. 

Below are three workshop plans which were used at the training event Training for Leaders Old & New. Listed below are the aims of each workshop, and for download below that are the full plans for each of the three workshops.

1. Reaching Out to New Communities Workshop 

Objectives:

The following TFLON 2 sessions are attached:


Session 1: Introducing Woodcraft Folk & History of WCF 

Session 2: Tools for Empowering Young people

Session 3: Planning a programme - putting the aims and principles to practice