Rip Van Winkle - National Youth Leadership Training

August 3-9, 2008 at Camp Tri-mount, East Jewett, NY 

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What is Rip Van Winkle-National Youth Leadership Training?

Rip Van Winkle-NYLT is an intense week-long youth oriented leadership training experience sponsored by the Rip Van Winkle Council and held at Camp Tri-mount.  Highly qualified youth staff under the supervision of adult advisors conduct the training using the National Youth Leadership Training Course syllabus, as published by the Boy Scouts of America National Council.

What is the goal of Rip Van Winkle-NYLT?

Rip Van Winkle-NYLT is an exciting, action packed program designed to provide Boy Scouts of America youth members with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and any other situation that demands leadership of self and others.

Leaders of today need to understand how to best work with teams, so NYLT integrates the best of modern leadership theory with the traditional strengths of the Scouting experience.  NYLT teaches an individual how to lead themselves and others in a team environment.

Give me an overview of the course:

Built on the legacy of past JLT successes, the new NYLT integrates the best of modern leadership theory with the traditional strengths of the Scouting experience.  Through activities, presentations, challenges, discussions, and audio-visual support, NYLT participants will be engaged in a unified approach to leadership that will give them the skills and confidence to lead well.  Through a wide range of activities, events, games, and adventures, NYLT participants will work and play together as they put into action the best that Scouting has to offer.

Rip Van Winkle-NYLT models a month in the life of troop – three meetings (one each day for the first three days) leading up to a big outdoor experience (an overnight outpost camp).  The course uses the patrol method and presents model Patrol Leaders’ Council meetings.  Patrols are challenged early in the week to present their “Quest for the Meaning of Leadership” to the troop at the end of the week.  While the challenge is designed to have patrols experience the four stages of team development, it will help patrols and individual Scouts internalize the leadership skills and concepts being presented to them along the way.  Throughout the course, the staff will be modeling the concepts and skills that are the core content of the course.  The patrols will be challenged with many activities and games, including using GPS receivers to participate in a Geocache wide game.  The focus of each session is not only knowledge but giving the youth a “Toolbox of Skills” that equips them with the “how” of leadership.

Objectives:

     
    • Give participants the confidence and knowledge to conduct the troop program in their home units
      
    • Provide participants with a clear understanding of team and personal development
      
    • Create an environment of Scouting fellowship and fun guided by the Scout Oath and Law
      
    • Give participants the opportunity to share ideas and experiences with Scouts from other troops
      
    • Have fun and experience Scouting at its best

 

Who are the Rip Van Winkle-NYLT Staff?

Rip Van Winkle-NYLT is a boy run program with adult leadership supervision.  The youth staff consists of a Senior Patrol Leader, Assistant Patrol Leaders, and Troop Guides.  The adult staff consists of a Scoutmaster, Assistant Scoutmasters, and Quartermasters.  The Staff models the core learning and leadership messages of the NYLT syllabus

Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct is the Scout Oath and Law.

Cost: $290.00 If paid by 4/30/08, $330.00 If paid after 5/01/08

The fee includes all materials, food, and program for the week-long course and a $75.00 deposit.  It is suggested that Troops and sponsoring organizations consider contributing all or part of this fee.

So how do you get to do all of this?

It’s Easy!  Ask your Scoutmaster; he or she should have information about Rip Van Winkle-NYLT.  You will need to fill out a Participants’ Application Form and submit it with all the required signatures, support forms and information to the Rip Van Winkle Council Service Center.  You can download an application from the link at the top of this page, or pick up an application at the Rip Van Winkle Council Service Center.

More Information:

Contact the Rip Van Winkle Council Service Center at (845)-339-0846 or send your question via e-mail to RVW.NYLT@gmail.com.