Introduction to Outdoor Leadership Skills

(IOLS)

Who should take this training?

Scouts BSA Scoutmasters (required)  and Assistant Scoutmasters.

Why should I take this training?

Scouting's outdoor program amd The Patrol Method are a critical part of how the Scouts BSA program develops young leaders. While camping or participating in other outdoor events, your Scouts will challenge themselves to learn skills they've never tried before, or maybe didn't think that they could do. In doing so, your Scouts will work together as a team to overcome adversity when things don't go as planned. This is truly the magic of Scouting that no other program does well.

To safely offer Scouting's outdoor program, however, you need a certain set of skills and knowledge, and that's why you're required to take Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills Training (also known as IOLS). You'll learn how to teach these skills:

• how to build a fire
• use an axe
• cook outdoors
• use a map and compass
• responsibility care for the outdoors
• and much more

Even if you were not a Scout as a kid, you'll come out of this course looking and acting like a seasoned camper. This course (combined with Youth Protection Training and the Scoutmaster Specific Training* courses) will make you a  trained Scouts BSA leader.