Personal Goals
Leadership:
What steps you plan to take in aiding your attempts at achieving them:
To achieve good leadership on Long Walk I will:
• draw out the route plan and look through the night before
• Navigation
- figure the catchy features to look for, changes in direction, figure out if I want or need to take a bearing, how much we are going up or down in elevation
• Seek enough clarification from the group
• Make sure the group is ready before I start my instructions
• Observing to see if my approach is working or not working
• change my leadership style when I need to
• mark out potential lunch spots and campsites
• ensure the safety of the group
• asking for when someone wants to stop for drink, toilet, snack, hot spots, a delayer or to put a layer back on.
Examples of resources you might utilise:
• My maps
• Priest and Gass’ Effective Leadership and Adventure Programming
• Bushwalking and Ski Touring Leadership
• Thomas, Glyn (2010) Facilitator, teacher, or leader? Managing conflicting roles in outdoor education. The Journal of Experiential Education, 32 3- 239-254.
What barriers there might be to achieving your goals:
• Less confident
• Leading your peers, people your own age and are older than you.
• Not seeing that’s it’s not really working
• Making assumptions/not clarifying with everyone
• Having unclear instructions
- If I have a good plan and read it over this shouldn’t happen
• Not knowing the area well enough to pick appropriate lunch and campsite spots
Working in Groups
What steps you plan to take in aiding your attempts at achieving them:
• Taking responsibility for my actions
• Giving everyone encouragement
• Having an positive attitude
• Good communication
• An enriched and positive group experience
• Resolving conflicts and any other problems together
• Ask for everyone’s input or someone’s input when they haven’t said anything
- e.g. Munge what do you think about this and that?
What resources you might utilise:
• The constitution of outdoor education groups An analysis of the literature by Robyn Zink
• Bushwalking and Ski Touring Leadership
What barriers there might be to achieving your goals:
• Conflict is hard to resolve
• Poor communication or judgement
• Having a bad day
• Not considering other’s input
Environmental Knowledge
What steps you plan to take in aiding your attempts at achieving them:
• Writing up the important things I learn in my journal
• Making sure of guidebooks
• Asking Munge questions about it
• Taking a photo with Consett Stephen Pass with hopefully less snow, so I can compare it with my Kosi prac trip photo.
What resources you might utilise:
• Kosciusko Alpine Flora, 1980
• Costermans – Trees of Victoria and Adjoining Areas
What barriers there might be to achieving your goals:
• Big days of walking, no time for many stops
• Guidebooks are heavy carry and there’s a lot we have to carry
• The weather may too poor
Personal Objectives
My own personal objectives include:
• Coming back fitter than when I leave – summer surfboat rowing season is coming up
• To bond with my group and have an absolute blast
• To write in my journal every day
• To complete the 18 days without getting any injuries
• My overall objective to set everything I have learnt over the past three years into concrete
(However, I know over the rest of my life I will constantly being learning new things)
What steps you plan to take in aiding your attempts at achieving them:
• Taking care of myself both physically and mentally
• Getting plenty of sleep
• Doing stretches at the start and end of each day
• My friends are writing me letters
• Then reading the letters my friends have written me!
• Doing physical preparation activities so I do not struggle and can enjoy myself
• The duration of 20 days, seems like a long time and I am sure I will find that some days will be easier than others, it will important to take each day as it comes and find positivity within each day.
• Write my own letters to others to send them after Long Walk
What resources you might utilise:
• Letters from friends and writing replies, as I won’t be able to talk to them face-to-face or call them
• Munge
• Websites for stretching, strapping etc
What barriers there might be to achieving your goals:
• Homesick
• Having a bad day
• Too tired and lazy
Leadership:
What steps you plan to take in aiding your attempts at achieving them:
To achieve good leadership on Long Walk I will:
• draw out the route plan and look through the night before
• Navigation
- figure the catchy features to look for, changes in direction, figure out if I want or need to take a bearing, how much we are going up or down in elevation
• Seek enough clarification from the group
• Make sure the group is ready before I start my instructions
• Observing to see if my approach is working or not working
• change my leadership style when I need to
• mark out potential lunch spots and campsites
• ensure the safety of the group
• asking for when someone wants to stop for drink, toilet, snack, hot spots, a delayer or to put a layer back on.
Examples of resources you might utilise:
• My maps
• Priest and Gass’ Effective Leadership and Adventure Programming
• Bushwalking and Ski Touring Leadership
• Thomas, Glyn (2010) Facilitator, teacher, or leader? Managing conflicting roles in outdoor education. The Journal of Experiential Education, 32 3- 239-254.
What barriers there might be to achieving your goals:
• Less confident
• Leading your peers, people your own age and are older than you.
• Not seeing that’s it’s not really working
• Making assumptions/not clarifying with everyone
• Having unclear instructions
- If I have a good plan and read it over this shouldn’t happen
• Not knowing the area well enough to pick appropriate lunch and campsite spots
Working in Groups
What steps you plan to take in aiding your attempts at achieving them:
• Taking responsibility for my actions
• Giving everyone encouragement
• Having an positive attitude
• Good communication
• An enriched and positive group experience
• Resolving conflicts and any other problems together
• Ask for everyone’s input or someone’s input when they haven’t said anything
- e.g. Munge what do you think about this and that?
What resources you might utilise:
• The constitution of outdoor education groups An analysis of the literature by Robyn Zink
• Bushwalking and Ski Touring Leadership
What barriers there might be to achieving your goals:
• Conflict is hard to resolve
• Poor communication or judgement
• Having a bad day
• Not considering other’s input
Environmental Knowledge
What steps you plan to take in aiding your attempts at achieving them:
• Writing up the important things I learn in my journal
• Making sure of guidebooks
• Asking Munge questions about it
• Taking a photo with Consett Stephen Pass with hopefully less snow, so I can compare it with my Kosi prac trip photo.
What resources you might utilise:
• Kosciusko Alpine Flora, 1980
• Costermans – Trees of Victoria and Adjoining Areas
What barriers there might be to achieving your goals:
• Big days of walking, no time for many stops
• Guidebooks are heavy carry and there’s a lot we have to carry
• The weather may too poor
Personal Objectives
My own personal objectives include:
• Coming back fitter than when I leave – summer surfboat rowing season is coming up
• To bond with my group and have an absolute blast
• To write in my journal every day
• To complete the 18 days without getting any injuries
• My overall objective to set everything I have learnt over the past three years into concrete
(However, I know over the rest of my life I will constantly being learning new things)
What steps you plan to take in aiding your attempts at achieving them:
• Taking care of myself both physically and mentally
• Getting plenty of sleep
• Doing stretches at the start and end of each day
• My friends are writing me letters
• Then reading the letters my friends have written me!
• Doing physical preparation activities so I do not struggle and can enjoy myself
• The duration of 20 days, seems like a long time and I am sure I will find that some days will be easier than others, it will important to take each day as it comes and find positivity within each day.
• Write my own letters to others to send them after Long Walk
What resources you might utilise:
• Letters from friends and writing replies, as I won’t be able to talk to them face-to-face or call them
• Munge
• Websites for stretching, strapping etc
What barriers there might be to achieving your goals:
• Homesick
• Having a bad day
• Too tired and lazy