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Direct linkShooter, Wynn; Paisley, Karen; Sibthorp, Jim – Journal of Experiential Education, 2010
Establishing trusting relationships between leaders and participants is one way that outdoor leaders can create an emotionally safe and productive milieu that supports the attainment of desirable outcomes. Multidisciplinary literature offers considerable insight into leader trust development and the outcomes that are linked to trust in a leader.…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Outdoor Leadership, Interpersonal Relationship, Safety
Peart, Richard – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 1991
Presents leadership models for outdoor education which emphasize flexibility and a balance between achieving the task and exercising affective skills. Leadership styles run on a continuum from high leader control to high group control. Stresses safe practice in outdoor activities. Offers recommendations to improve outdoor leadership. (KS)
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Leadership Styles, Outdoor Activities, Outdoor Education
Ford, Phyllis; Blanchard, Jim – 1993
Outdoor leadership aims to assist outdoor participants in making logical and safe transitions from the routine of everyday life to a positive interaction with the natural world. Designed for outdoor leaders and administrators of recreational, educational, and adventure programs, this book provides an overview of current professional practices in…
Descriptors: Camping, Conservation (Environment), Group Dynamics, Leadership
Peer reviewedDavis-Berman, Jennifer; Berman, Dene – Journal of Experiential Education, 2002
Outdoor leaders should address emotional safety and anxiety in program planning and reconsider the common practice of pushing participants, particularly troubled youth, out of comfort zones by purposefully increasing perceived risk. An alternative model of adventure education is proposed in which the greatest amount of change and growth comes from…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Anxiety, Counselor Client Relationship, Educational Environment
Irwin, Cheryl; Phipps, Maurice – 1994
For over 7 years, the Wilderness Education Association (WEA) and three universities have been using a systematic approach to leadership training in the outdoors: the experiential leadership education (ELE) method. The effectiveness of this approach was investigated by an aerospace expert interested in leadership training for isolated groups. A…
Descriptors: Aerospace Industry, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Leadership Styles
Brown, Heather – Horizons, 2000
Participant responsibility in outdoor education programs is placed on a continuum from passenger status through participant and partner to practitioner. Corresponding leader roles are directive, coaching, supporting, and delegating. The disempowering effects of the passenger approach to risk management and the value of teaching a group to manage…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Educational Strategies, Empowerment, Leadership Styles
