Updated and made more practical for 2025. The Teaching and Learning element will be found on my Patreon page from now on. In 2024 Mountain Training updated the walking qualification syllabuses. They improved the section on leadership. This workshop is aimed at those who already hold the ML, HML or LL Qualifications or are working towards them and those who train and assess these qualifications. The aim is to get under the skin of the changes, see how they look and feel ‘on the hill’ and then build on our leadership techniques. 

We start with an indoor session brainstorming the characteristics of good leadership. Then we get out on a walk (it'll be lowland leader terrain around Betws y Coed) to translate these into leadership behaviours. Armed with this experience we then visit some theoretical models of leadership including the INSPIRE model as used by Mountain Training. All this will…