Introduction
Welcome to your Environmental and Climate Leadership course!
We will take you through a learning journey to connect you to…
- What it means to be an Environmental Leader
- Varied and historical perspectives in Environmental Leadership
- How to apply Environmental Leadership skills to transform your work or life
- Understanding climate change and taking action
- Nature as a place for knowledge building and reducing anxiety around climate for you and your participants
In order to fully engage with the learning, you are asked throughout the course to journal or jot down your ideas through writing or drawing.
Writing strengthens thinking, as we have to organise our thoughts to put them on to the page. Drawing leads to careful observation and improved memory. Using numbers helps us make different kinds of observations, reveals patterns and relationships, and prompts questions we might not think to ask.[1]
You can use a physical notepad or the typing spaces in the online portal to participate in this process.
As you progress through this work, we encourage you to regularly look back at your answers, as these can help to frame your future programming, relationship building, and understanding on your learning journey.
There are no graded quizzes in this course; the journal or activity responses are entirely yours and will be personal to your set of knowledge, skills and experiences. It is important that you give time to the reflection in order to deepen your understanding of the concepts and ideas within this course.
If you’re ready to get started, click here!
Outward Bound Canada
Outward Bound Canada (OBC) is a registered charity that builds resilience and empowers youth through experiential adventures in nature. Since 1969, more than 175,000 participants have experienced our unique high-impact programs for individuals and school & groups, many of which are youth underserved with outdoor education who need our scholarships and bursaries.
Using the outdoors as our dynamic classroom, we help thousands of young people annually to develop their physical, social, and emotional skills and environmental leadership.
The Outward Bound Canada Training Academy
Launched in 2022 as an initiative of Outward Bound Canada, the Training Academy was created to address the representation gap within the outdoor sector while also providing technical skill development and growing social and emotional competencies so that Canada’s next generation of Outdoor Leaders can respond to the evolving needs of Canada’s diverse population.
Take Me Outside
We believe in a future where spending time outside learning, playing and exploring is a regular and significant part of every learner’s day.
Take Me Outside works collaboratively with other organizations, school boards and individuals to encourage children and youth to spend more time outside through various projects and initiatives.
TMO is a registered non-profit that has been operating across Canada since 2010.
- Richard A. Menary (2007). Writing as thinking, Language Sciences, Volume 29, Issue 5,Pages 621-632 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2007.01.005 ↵
