A practical, hands-on weekend designed to build your confidence, judgement, and skills needed to lead safe and enjoyable club trips.
Based in Arthur’s Pass, this weekend focuses on learning by practice. Section members will spend both days outdoors working through trip leadership situations, developing decision-making skills, navigation, group management, and leadership confidence to be able to run a trip for other club members.
Arrive Friday evening, meet the group, settle into accommodation, and prepare for a full weekend of learning. Trip Leader activities begin Saturday morning.
Over the weekend participants will cover:
Trip leadership roles and responsibilities
Group management in the field
Communication and team dynamics
Navigation and route finding
Hazard awareness and dynamic risk management
Decision making in changing conditions
Managing pace, morale, and mixed abilities
Incident response and common field scenarios
Saturday is focused on practical learning, followed by an evening theory session covering trip planning, weather, risk management and making a plan for the Sunday day trip for the group to go on.
Sunday the group will undertake the Trip Plan where participants rotate through leader roles and apply the skills learned throughout the weekend.
This weekend is ideal for NZAC members who want to begin leading trips or strengthen their outdoor leadership or build the club community.