learning & leadership resources
GUYdelines Articles: Our Quarterly E-Newsletter for Outdoor Lovers & Leaders
Vol.15 (2021)
No. 1: Go up, go down, or stay here.
No. 2: The sweet spot.
Vol. 14 (2020)
No. 1: Four Facing Directions of Leadership
No. 2: Just Me and My Two X’s
No. 3: No Trust, No Relationship
No. 4: Leading and Serving
Vol. 13 (2019)
No. 1: Self Mastery for Leadership: Imagination and Habit, Part 1
No. 2: Self Mastery for Leadership: Imagination and Habit, Part 2
Vol. 12 (2018)
No. 1: Five New Year’s Resolutions Worth Keeping
No. 2: TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More
No. 3: Fear and Courage
Vol. 11 (2017)
No. 1: 9 Leadership Statements that you Never Want to Hear Yourself Say Out There (first three)
No. 2: 9 Leadership Statements that you Never Want to HearYourself Say Out There (Nos. 4, 5, and 6)
No. 3: 9 Leadership Statements that you Never Want to Hear Yourself Say Out There (Nos. 7, 8, and 9)
No. 4: The People Will Surprise You
Vol. 10 (2016)
No. 1: You are Sharing the Woods with These People..!
No. 2: Preparing for the Worst
No. 3: The Outdoors and the Education of Young People
Vol. 9 (2015)
No. 1: Learning from 2014
No. 2: Learning from Tragedy
No. 3: Both Strange and True…
Vol. 8 (2014)
No. 1: Our work as a way of extending goodness into the world
No. 2: The march of folly
No. 3: When judgement fails
No. 4: Some ideas (and quotes) I try to live by
Vol. 7 (2013)
No. 1: Stupidity explored
No. 2: Becoming unstupid
No. 3: Experiential learning
No. 4: Lessons from Jackson WY
Vol. 6 (2012)
No. 1: Mary’s great adventures
No. 2: 9 thoughts for staying alive out there
No. 3: Nourishment for the soul, from the outdoor world
No. 4: “Staying Alive” by David Wagoner
Vol. 5 (2011)
No. 1: Leadership IV – leadership team dynamics
No. 2: The 10 (and more) essentials
No. 3: 7 things you never want to hear yourself say in the outdoors
No. 4: The leadership trap of mindlessness
Vol. 4 (2010)
No. 1: Invincibility (revisited)
No. 2: Leadership I – shared purpose
No. 3: Leadership II – toxic leadership
No. 4: Leadership III – leader traps
Vol. 3 (2009)
No. 1: Materialism and greed
No. 2: Last in the series of 10 human attitudes that lead to suffering – Naive optimism, leading to a gross failure to plan
No. 3: Teaching children about being lost in the outdoors
No. 4: Groupthink in outdoor adventure settings
Vol. 2 (2008)
No. 1: The unexamined urge to press on
No. 2: Avoidance or denial of personal weakness
No. 3: A casual approach to details
No. 4: Hurry
Special issue: Climbing with children
Vol. 1 (2007)
No. 1: First in the series of 10 human attitudes that lead to suffering – Unwillingness to change plans
No. 2: Ego and the desire to impress
No. 3: Lack of awareness
No. 4: Invincibility
Presentations at the Wilderness Risk Management Conference
Additional Resources
“Introducing children to the wild (and local) outdoors” (appeared in Around Harrisonburg magazine, June/July 2011, pp. 29-32)
Also, check out NOLS for a wide range of excellent papers on all facets of outdoor leadership and risk management
Sphere of Labor, a video from Truth in Action Ministries (2013), exploring carrying our Christian faith into the workplace, and featuring Lester from WILD GUYde Adventures.
“Learning is thinking about experience.” – John Dewey
“Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana