Exploring your faculties as a future leader
Leadership in the Wilderness: the task, the team and you.
An Experiential Learning & Development Programme
A UNIQUE STRETCH ASSIGNMENT
Bristol Medical School offers Year 2 Medical Students a very practical SCP experience of teamwork in tight conditions. This is a unique stretch assignment going beyond theory into the realm of direct experience to explore & develop resilience and leadership skills in challenging conditions – skills directly applicable to multi-disciplinary team-working in healthcare settings.
The centrepiece of the SCP is a journey to the wilder limits of the Lake District in early October 2021 for a week-long Leadership Development Programme supported by a multi-disciplinary leadership team including an experienced Faculty & Leadership Development specialist who is also a qualified Mountain Leader.
Students work together to organise themselves, face practical details, navigate problem solving challenges and respond to the environmental conditions. The experience focuses on the principles of how to build teams, maintain effective teamwork and develop interpersonal relationships with a clear shared purpose. Participants undertake various team roles including demonstrating leadership and the ability to accept and support leadership. There is time too for personal reflection.
TEAM WORK
Students work together to organise themselves, face practical details, navigate problem solving challenges and respond to the environmental conditions. The experience focuses on the principles of how to build teams, maintain effective teamwork and develop interpersonal relationships with a clear shared purpose.
SELF RELIANCE
Experience both your, and your peers', resourcefulness & practical creativity in applying yourselves to basic & important tasks looking after yourselves in a wilderness where the consequences of your actions count.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Participants undertake various team roles including demonstrating leadership and the ability to accept and support leadership.
There is time too for personal reflection.
PREPARATION
Research in the lead up to the expedition focusses on a survey of theoretical frameworks of leadership and teamwork. Students are supported with one-to-one coaching and practical support to arrive fully prepare for the programme. Staff take time to share and facilitate reflection on progress throughout the programme. On return, students combine their experience with theory in crafting their project reports.
Anticipated outcomes for participants include:
Increased personal confidence, resilience & a sense of belief in their future capability
Awareness of personal leadership strengths and areas for development
Understanding of impact of personal behaviour on the experience of the group
Awareness of different leadership frameworks and their practical usefulness
Opportunity to get to know fellow students and Faculty in a new off-campus setting
Experience of tight conditions that will inform further work in NHS settings
Note that travel, accommodation, and most meals, are included, at no cost to participants. Participants are responsible for assembling their personal kit for mountain conditions (full guidance will be given). Wet weather a possibility. We'll have a basecamp to come back to.
This is a leadership course not an endurance course. No previous mountain experience is necessary, but you will need a good level of general physical fitness.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
A JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN
"This project will offer loads of beneficial insight for becoming future doctors."
"A great opportunity to get to know other medics and establish new friendships"
"This programme will teach future doctors about their own comfort zones in challenging situations which will help develop student's ability to empathise with patients in many clinical settings"
"An experiential learning and development journey held & supported in the spirit of challenge by choice in a climate of high challenge - high support."
Leadership in the Wilderness: the task, the team and you.
Do you feel you have a talent for leadership or feel curious about your personal aptitudes and attributes as a leader?
Are you someone who likes to blend full-on lived experience with theoretical insight?
Do you fancy an all-expenses-paid adventure in the Lakes?
Week 1
Input from
an Agile Software Project Manager
Bio Leadership Specialist
Organisational Development Specialist
A Sports Psychologist
A Wilderness Guide & Mountain Leader
Preparation with a Personal Coach
Increased personal confidence, resilience & a sense of belief in their future capability,
Do you feel you have a talent for leadership or feel curious about your personal aptitudes and attributes as a leader?
Are you someone who likes to blend full-on lived experience with theoretical insight?
Do you fancy an all-expenses-paid adventure in the Lakes? If so, read on!
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