National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience
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The National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE) is offered by the Philmont Training Center
of the Boy Scouts of America
. It is a week-long, high-adventure, backcountry leadership development experience for boys and girls 14–20 years old. This training is an element of the Youth Leadership Training Continuum.
(NYLT). It includes more experiences in team building and ethical decision making. The wilderness-based, challenging program based at Rocky Mountain Scout Camp incorporates some portions of the Philmont Ranger Training and advanced search and rescue
training as a means to teach leadership
, teamwork
and servant leadership
. This training is an element of the overall leadership training
program.
NAYLE replaces the National Youth Leader Instructor Camp (NYLIC), which itself replaced the previous National Junior Leader Instructor Camp (NJLIC). Unlike NYLIC, NAYLE is not intended to specifically train youth staff for local NYLT courses.
focusing on an individual's perspective, opinion, and feelings, including "growing self-awareness, growing self-confidence, growing creativity, the happiness from helping others succeed, understanding that everyone is a leader, everyone in the group contributes in a significant way to team success, knowing leadership is a way of life."
The program's goals are to:
NAYLE is designed to equip participants with the skills to return to their local council and serve as staff on their local NYLT course, as summer camp staff, and as better troop leaders. NAYLE is designed to teach participants servant leadership skills in Scouting and for later life so they can "lead for the good of others."
A NYLT to NAYLE bridge course will be available during the first quarter of 2010 for Venture youth who have not been able to take NYLT. Venture crew members must take either NYLT or a new “Bridge course” to help Venture Crew members who have not yet attended NYLT.
The cost of the program in 2012 is $355, up from was $285 in 2008. With the added cost of traveling to the course location at Philmont Training Center
, and given that only six sessions are offered in 2012, attendance is necessarily restricted to at most a few hundred youth out of the many thousands who previously completed National Youth Leadership Training
.
Philmont Training Center
The Philmont Training Center , located at the Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron, New Mexico, has been the National Training Center of the Boy Scouts of America since 1950. The PTC offers week-long training conferences from June through September for council, district, and unit volunteers, BSA...
of the Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with over 4.5 million youth members in its age-related divisions...
. It is a week-long, high-adventure, backcountry leadership development experience for boys and girls 14–20 years old. This training is an element of the Youth Leadership Training Continuum.
Program content
NAYLE is intended for graduates of National Youth Leadership TrainingNational Youth Leadership Training
National Youth Leadership Training is the current incarnation of youth leadership development training offered by the Boy Scouts of America . The program is conducted at the council level over a week or over two weekends. It is intended to provide standardized, in-depth training covering a number...
(NYLT). It includes more experiences in team building and ethical decision making. The wilderness-based, challenging program based at Rocky Mountain Scout Camp incorporates some portions of the Philmont Ranger Training and advanced search and rescue
Search and rescue
Search and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, mostly based upon terrain considerations...
training as a means to teach leadership
Leadership
Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Other in-depth definitions of leadership have also emerged.-Theories:...
, teamwork
Teamwork
Teamwork is action performed by a team towards a common goal. A team consists of more than one person, each of whom typically has different responsibilities....
and servant leadership
Servant leadership
Servant leadership is a philosophy and practice of leadership, coined and defined by Robert K. Greenleaf and supported by many leadership and management writers such as James Autry, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Peter Block, Peter Senge, Max DePree, Scott Greenberg, Larry Spears, Margaret...
. This training is an element of the overall leadership training
Leadership training (Boy Scouts of America)
Leadership training in the Boy Scouts of America includes training on how to administer the Scouting program, outdoor skills training for adults and youth, and leadership development courses for adults and youth. Some of these courses like Youth Protection Training are mandatory...
program.
NAYLE replaces the National Youth Leader Instructor Camp (NYLIC), which itself replaced the previous National Junior Leader Instructor Camp (NJLIC). Unlike NYLIC, NAYLE is not intended to specifically train youth staff for local NYLT courses.
Program goals
The program promises a number of subjective outcomesSubjectivity
Subjectivity refers to the subject and his or her perspective, feelings, beliefs, and desires. In philosophy, the term is usually contrasted with objectivity.-Qualia:...
focusing on an individual's perspective, opinion, and feelings, including "growing self-awareness, growing self-confidence, growing creativity, the happiness from helping others succeed, understanding that everyone is a leader, everyone in the group contributes in a significant way to team success, knowing leadership is a way of life."
The program's goals are to:
- Encourage others to a life of leadership service
- Act as a servant leader who shares the skills of NYLTNational Youth Leadership TrainingNational Youth Leadership Training is the current incarnation of youth leadership development training offered by the Boy Scouts of America . The program is conducted at the council level over a week or over two weekends. It is intended to provide standardized, in-depth training covering a number...
and helps develop other leaders through their enhanced understanding of the material - Intuitively use the leadership skills in all aspects of their lives
- Be an advocate for TLTTroop Leadership TrainingIntroduction to Leadership Skills for Troops is a unit-level training program within the Boy Scouts of America led by the Scoutmaster and the Senior Patrol Leader. It is designed to improve the leadership skill of all boy leaders within a Boy Scout troop...
and NYLT in their local environment - Use positive reinforcement to help others do their best
NAYLE is designed to equip participants with the skills to return to their local council and serve as staff on their local NYLT course, as summer camp staff, and as better troop leaders. NAYLE is designed to teach participants servant leadership skills in Scouting and for later life so they can "lead for the good of others."
Program activities
During the week-long backcountry experience, participants are challenged with various activities linked to the skills of leadership defined in NYLT:| Activity | Purpose | Leadership Skill |
| Project COPE | Team development | Valuing people, leadership behaviors |
| Wilderness first aid | Learn advanced skills for later application in search and rescue | Planning, communication, problem solving |
| Global Positioning System Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites... (GPS) and Geocaching Geocaching Geocaching is an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world.... |
Learn advanced outdoor skills for application throughout the course | Teaching EDGE, conflict resolution, problem solving |
| Search and rescue Search and rescue Search and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, mostly based upon terrain considerations... |
Learn advanced outdoor skills for application throughout the course | Teaching EDGE, communication, problem solving |
| Leave No Trace Leave No Trace Leave No Trace is both a set of principles, and an organization that promotes those principles. The principles are designed to assist outdoor enthusiasts with their decisions about how to reduce their impacts when they hike, camp, picnic, snowshoe, run, bike, hunt, paddle, ride horses, fish, ski or... |
Learn advanced outdoor skills for application throughout the course | Ethical decision making |
| Conservation Conservation ethic Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as important to... |
Give back to Philmont through service | Teaching EDGE, servant leadership |
| Philmont Philmont Training Center The Philmont Training Center , located at the Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron, New Mexico, has been the National Training Center of the Boy Scouts of America since 1950. The PTC offers week-long training conferences from June through September for council, district, and unit volunteers, BSA... history |
Understand the value of a legacy | Servant leadership |
Requirements
Requirements for attending the program have been loosened since 2008. Attendees formerly had to be approved by their Council Executive, and now must meet only these qualifications:- Be a graduate of their home unit's leadership training program (either Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops or its Venturing equivalent, Introduction to Leadership Skills for Crews and have completed National Youth Leadership TrainingNational Youth Leadership TrainingNational Youth Leadership Training is the current incarnation of youth leadership development training offered by the Boy Scouts of America . The program is conducted at the council level over a week or over two weekends. It is intended to provide standardized, in-depth training covering a number...
(NYLT). - Be in good physical condition (a special Philmont Health and Medical Record is required).
- Be at least 14 years of age by the first day of the program (and less than 20 years old).
- Currently hold a leadership position in their home unit. In 2010, program attendance was opened to females.
A NYLT to NAYLE bridge course will be available during the first quarter of 2010 for Venture youth who have not been able to take NYLT. Venture crew members must take either NYLT or a new “Bridge course” to help Venture Crew members who have not yet attended NYLT.
The cost of the program in 2012 is $355, up from was $285 in 2008. With the added cost of traveling to the course location at Philmont Training Center
Philmont Training Center
The Philmont Training Center , located at the Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron, New Mexico, has been the National Training Center of the Boy Scouts of America since 1950. The PTC offers week-long training conferences from June through September for council, district, and unit volunteers, BSA...
, and given that only six sessions are offered in 2012, attendance is necessarily restricted to at most a few hundred youth out of the many thousands who previously completed National Youth Leadership Training
National Youth Leadership Training
National Youth Leadership Training is the current incarnation of youth leadership development training offered by the Boy Scouts of America . The program is conducted at the council level over a week or over two weekends. It is intended to provide standardized, in-depth training covering a number...
.