Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming Mini eBook, Third Edition, presents key models, concepts, and checklists from the text in an abbreviated form that is easily accessed and referenced in the field. Refreshers on the most important concepts from the text are at your fingertips in this field handbook; use either the topically arranged table of contents or the alphabetical table of contents to quickly locate the information you need.
Outdoor Leadership and the Brick Wall
Modified Accident Equation
Danger Analysis
Adapted Crisis Management
Environmental Checklists
Six Stages of Outdoor Trips
Trip-Planning Checklist
Outward Bound Process Model
Three Types of Transfer
Four Phases of Experiential Learning
Six Philosophical Questions
Three Types of Ethics
Understand Nonnegotiable Values
Professional Ethics
Moral Reasoning Model
Adventure Experience Paradigm
Competence Effectance
Conditional Leadership Model
Flexible Style for Group Leadership
Communication and Feedback
Listening and Speaking Checklists
Six Steps for Conflict Resolution
Learning
Learning Gradient
Teaching
Seven Instructional Combinations
Facilitation Checklists
Facilitation Overview
Fundamentals
Funneling
Nonverbal Alternatives
Freezing
Frontloading
Fortifying
Focusing
Framing
Group Decision Making
Fifty Decision-Making Biases
Creative Decision Making
Multiphasic Problem Solving
Five Breakdowns
Sound Judgment and Refraction
A Dozen Heuristics
Intuition and Judgment Checklist
Competency Framework
Both Simon Priest and Mike Gass are subject matter experts in outdoor leadership, adventure programming, and the facilitation of learning and change. They have separately authored hundreds of publications, presented thousands of experiential workshops, and delivered dozens of keynote addresses for conferences. They have taught in more than 60 nations around the world, and they enjoy collaborating on scholarly endeavors and climbing mountains together.
Dr. Simon Priest is a Canadian from Burnaby, British Columbia (near Vancouver). His areas of expertise include corporate training and development, wilderness resource management, and adventure travel and ecotourism. In addition to being a dean, provost, vice chancellor, senior vice president, president, and commissioner, he has held full professorships in business management, online education, and recreation and leisure. He has received more than 15 awards for his teaching and research, including the Willi Unsoeld Award from the Association for Experiential Education, and he has been invited as a visiting scholar at about 30 international institutions.
Dr. Michael Gass is an American from Durham, New Hampshire (near Boston). His areas of expertise include adventure therapy, wilderness orientation programs, and program accreditation. He is the director of the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Research Center (OBHRC) as well as the National Association for Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) research database. He is a full professor at the University of New Hampshire as well as a licensed marriage and family therapist. He currently leads and directs several critical research initiatives in the field of behavioral health care. He has received more than 20 awards, including the Kurt Hahn Award, Distinguished Researcher Award, and Outstanding Teacher Award from the Association for Experiential Education. He has been invited as a visiting scholar at about 20 international institutions.
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