Training
Venturing Adult Leader Training

• Venturing Advisor Fast Start (online)


• Illustrated guide [PDF]


• This is Scouting (online- replaces New Leader Essentials)


• Venturing Leader Specific Training - Developed for Venturing Advisors, assistant Advisors, and crew committee members. This basic course explains Venturing to all adults new to Venturing. There are five sessions: Here's Venturing, Understanding and Protecting Youth, Leadership and Organization, Awards and Recogniation, and Resources and Program Planning. These sessions may be offered at one time or individually. It usually takes about 5 hours to complete. This course is required for the Advisor Key and Venturing Advisor Training Awards.



• Powder Horn - High-adventure resource training designed to introduce and expose Venturing and Boy Scout adult unit leaders to the activities and resources necessary to operate a successful outdoor/high-adventure unit-level program.


• Wood Badge for the 21st Century - Wood Badge has evolved into the core leadership skills training course for the BSA. The new Wood Badge course focuses on strengthening every volunteer's ability to work with and lead groups of youth and adults and is less focused on outdoor skills, which are more effectively addressed in other courses.

Venturing Youth Training

• Venturing Youth Protection (online)


• Venturing Crew Orientation (online) - This new training offers a much-needed support to Venturing crews with their officers. The sections that it covers are:


• Crew Officers Roles and Responsibilities
• Resources Crew Officers Needs and Use
• Working With Advisors and Older Adults
• How to Plan Your Crew's Annual Program
• Planning Resources


• Nature of Leadership The Venturing Leadership Skills Course (VLSC) is the first step a Venturer encounters on his or her journey toward leadership development. This course is designed to be used by Advisors to teach leadership skills to all Venturers in the crew. It has nine leadership modules that begin with an activity and follow with a reflection. Completion of this course is a requirement for the Venturing Silver Award, and conducting the course is a requirement for the Venturing Advisor Award of Merit.


• Kodiak - This course combines the elements of leadership and service to others as the two key tenets of Venturing. Servant leadership is a philosophy that teaches the leader to work with and through a team to accomplish the mission.


• Kodiak's methods are the following: Challenging outdoor treks to use nature as a classroom (no indoor sessions). Five leadership skills, called "commissions," are taught. They can be offered over a week, or over two weekends. It uses a hands-on teaching approach with very short presentations.


• Kodiak X is the final step in Venturing's Nature of Leadership series, which began with learning introductory leadership skills in the Venturing Leadership Skills Course, followed by Kodiak, a much more in-depth leadership course done in conjunction with a trek or trip. Kodiak X is a weekend leadership challenge course designed to test a Venturer's leaderships skills learned in Kodiak. It is a fun and funky weekend!

Other Training

• Trek Safely (online)


• Climb on Safely (online)


• Safety Afloat (online)


• Safe Swim Defense (online)