Well I have spent the day out with Plas Y Brenin observing them teach the staff from Cotswold winter skills. It is part of a joint training week with Mountain Equipment. So the day was very surreal, with more ME logos and clothing than you could shake a very large stick at. I guess it will really help both companies on the one hand you have product testing and new skills to help out the staff.
It was great for me to see a few more examples of how to teach Winter Skills, one of the elements of the assessment for my Winter ML. I was interested to see that my thoughts that the EDICT model of coaching skills was used by the staff from Plas Y Brenin. Basically EDICT means you Explain, Demonstrate, the group imitate, the coach/instructor then corrects any mistakes and then the students try again. It was also good to see that the few planned strategies I have been thinking of using for different elements seem to work in real life. I also picked up some more great nuggets of knowledge for introducing the skills in a progressive and structure approach.
A massive thank you for Dave and the Brenin letting me shadow him.
