May Forum Topic: Introduction to Leadership Skills for Crews (ILSC)

Have you wondered how to facilitate your crew's ILSC?  May's forum will focus on what the ILSC is and how to run one for your crew.  We'll hear from a Venturing Advisor about his crew's experience, do one of the exercises from the course as a group and review the overall youth leadership training flow.  We'll leave plenty of time for discussion and questions.

April Forum Topic: How to conduct "Ethical Controversies"

Don't misinterpret the subject of this month's Venturing Forum.  We're not going to be doing anything illegal or controversial, but, we will have an opportunity to learn the five steps in conducting an "Ethical Controversies" activity for your Venturing Crew (Venturing Leader Manual, p. 197-228), and participate as teams in discussing our own ethical controversy.

After participating in this activity as a Venturing Forum, consider the possible learning opportunities for your crew and possible combined activities with young women.  

March Forum Topic: Conducting a Safe Program isn't Rocket Science

The plan for the March Forum on Thursday, March 13th, 2014 will be on conducting a safe Venturing program.  We'll review the LDS Church's new video on Safety through Planning and Relying on the Spirit that features a scout leader/rocket scientist that took a group of scouts to Havasupai and discuss similarities and opportunities to improve.  We will also have a chance to share some of our past activities.  We will also introduce the Forum Advisor roles for the Venturing Forum.

January Forum Topic: Involving Parents

Scouting units typically hold a parents' night early in the year to inform scouts and parents about the plan for the year.  The topic of this month's venturing forum is "How to conduct a Parents Night and recruiting Parents".  We'll lean on the Venturing Leader Manual for this discussion.

See you on Thursday.

November Sub-District Venturing Forum

We're interested in how your sub-district Venturing forum turned out in November.  The Springville West Stake and Dry Creek Stake combined to discuss how to connect the dots between Scouting's PLC, Venturing Crew Officer Meetings, and quorum presidency meetings in capturing the vision of scouting.  See the on-line presentation here.

October Forum Topic: Venturing Activities - What's Working for You?

You are invited to the Hobble Creek District Venturing Forum next Thursday, October 9, 2013 at 7 p.m.  We'll be discussing the following:

• Venturing Annual Program Flow (Chart 14, page 73 of the Venturing Leader Specific Training Manual)

• Invite discussion on what is working and what is not working in your crews.

• Review rechartering and the opportunity to register youth of all faiths and activity levels into your unit.

We might even play a GAME!  Hope to see you there.

Venturing Program Announcement

Lots of changes are coming to Venturing in 2014.  It looks like the former general Young Men's president of the LDS church, Charles Dahlquist, had a hand in the new format.  Advancement and recognition look simplified.  Venturing will use the scout oath and law, including the scout sign.  Look into the details here.

See all of you at Roundtable this Thursday!