A full day workshop designed for UK & Overseas Mountain Leaders/Supervisors and those leading long-distance treks. The workshop gives individuals essential knowledge/skills & useful tools for managing and leading teams/groups within a specific context of promoting effective, safe leadership & communication. Suitable for prospective, new and established leaders who wish to develop their skills. The workshop is applicable to both adult and youth expeditions. It includes interactive sessions, case studies and scenario based examples, along with up-to-date national developments. Includes insight into expedition companies, and what they look for when employing leaders.

Please bring pen and paper a packed lunch and clothing suitable for an outdoor session. The workshop will primarily be run indoors for the morning followed by outdoor sessions. Fresh drinking water will be available along with tea/coffee/biscuits/snacks. A notebook/pen will also be useful.

Full course notes will be available. Free parking at the venue.

Matt is an IML, adventurer and experienced independent consultant/trainer with 30 years of professional social worker practice and outdoor freelance experience. Matt currently runs Bluestone Outdoors, a small outdoor training, guiding and expedition service. He has been leading and working on expeditions worldwide since the 1980’s. He currently works with a number of Leadership and Performance Consulting businesses across the UK.

Overseas Expeditions: Matt has led expeditions to 5 of the 7 Worlds Continents, which included: Madagascar, Argentina, Malaysia, Borneo (jungle trekking), Swaziland, Costa Rica, Morocco x 3, India Himalaya and China, which have involved high altitude trekking up to 5300m.

Personal Travel Experience: Matt has also travelled extensively throughout the World’s mountain/desert regions, completing trekking peaks (at altitudes in excess of 6000m e.g. Mera and Island Peak) and explored the Canadian wilderness on research expeditions researching bears. He has also travelled widely throughout most of Europe, including alpine ascents.

Matt holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work (Oxon), a Post Graduate Certificate in Public Sector Management (Oxon) and he is an International Mountain Leader.

To book a space please use the website www.BluestoneOutdoors.com

Start

09/11/2022 09:30

End

09/11/2022 16:30

Total Days

1

Maximum Bookings

15

Bookings

5

Venue

Snowdonia Watersports, Unit 2, Y Glyn

Town

Llanberis

County

Gwynedd

Postcode

LL55 4EL

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.12815

Longitude

-4.13918

Name

BAIML

Phone

07817 619898

Website

Email