Instructor Training

Our purpose is to change lives in the wilderness. This is our mission, our motto, our goal, and our calling. To this end, the quality of instructors that students will encounter is very important. Training provides professionalism, quality, safety, contiguity, and needed skill sets. Producing instructors with the following skills is the goal of instructor training.

Instructor Skills

  • Capable wilderness skills
  • Competent climbing skills
  • Competent backpacking skills
  • Competent mountaineering skills
  • Sound outdoor judgment
  • Problem solving skills
  • Natural history skills
  • Quality spiritual leadershipr
  • Disciple making
  • Small group leading
  • Experience in programming areas
  • Experience with common medical situations
  • Experience with leading spiritual discussions

Instructor Training includes the following components:

  • The Educate-Model-Observe-Evaluate (EMOE) model
  • Hands-On Training
  • Significant Field Time
  • Treating the instructors as students
  • Teaching lessons, demonstrating skills, practicing
  • Medical scenarios
  • Challenge
  • Discipleship