MANUAL

CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 15
Environment & Outdoor
Leadership
Active & Healthy Living
Program Areas
The interests of Venturer Scouts lay the foundation for the challenges they undertake
in pursuing their Solo Climbs. The six Program Areas for the Venturer Scouts are the
same as those for the other Scouts Canada Sections.
• Environment & Outdoors: This area concentrates on developing awareness and
understanding of a Venturer Scout’s local ecosystem and of the planet. Venturer
Scouts are encouraged to work independently or in Expeditions Teams on projects
that will have a positive impact on the natural world. This Program Area is also
about getting outdoors to enjoy the splendour of nature.
• Leadership: Leadership is the ability to identify your role in a group and fulfill
it (whatever it may be). For Venturer Scouts, it is about learning how to enable
themselves and others around them to achieve a common goal.
• Active & Healthy Living: Getting the most out of life is what healthy and active
living is all about. It’s about taking charge of one’s personal health and mental
wellbeing and learning the facts about nutrition, physical activity and hydration
in order to make sensible choices that support good health. This Program Area
encourages Venturer Scouts to learn to live in a healthy and active way through
individual and group activities.
• Citizenship: This Program Area focuses on developing empathy and giving back
to one’s community. Venturer Scouts acquire a greater awareness of their place in
society, their responsibilities in their community and their potential to impact the
world. For Venturer Scouts, this involves developing skills needed for life beyond
high school, and understanding how to prepare themselves for the rest of their
lives as independent and engaged citizens making meaningful contributions to the
world around them. This also includes service—giving back to the community (the
Scouting, local or world community) with the unique skills they are developing.
• Creative Expression: This Program Area focuses on the development and
improvement of a skill or collection of skills of the Venturer’s choosing. This could
be something new that a Venturer Scout would like to try, or it may mean working
to improve creative capabilities he or she already has.
• Beliefs & Values: This Program Area centres on developing a greater
understanding of one’s morals. A Venturer’s moral code may be founded upon his
or her religious faith or on another personal belief system.
Through their personal journey (Solo Climb), individual Venturer Scouts set
themselves challenges—experiences they hope to explore in the Program Areas. These
challenges collectively become the basis for a Company program and are supported
through a Company program planning cycle (overseen by the Venturer Company
Leadership Team). They provide a source of ideas for other Venturer Scouts (in
particular, youth new to the Company) to draw on as they consider challenges they
might undertake.
Theme-based or vocational programs (such as Sea Venturer Scouts) have the same
program elements as a traditional Venturer program. It is simply in how these
elements are implemented that the programs differ.
RESOURCES TO SUPPORT ADVENTURE PLANNING—TRAIL CARDS 1
Trail Cards 2 present adventure ideas. These support materials augment the planning
done by the Company. They are developed focusing on the Plan-Do-Review method
and can assist the youth in planning an adventure.
Trail Cards are resources designed to help Venturer Scouts in the planning, execution
and review of a variety of adventures (should they have difficulty coming up with
ideas of their own).
Citizenship
1
Check out Trail Cards for Venturers
at Canadianpath.ca.
2
Check out the Trail Card
infographic at Canadianpath.ca.
Trail Card for Venturers
Creative Expression
Beliefs & Values
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