learning & leadership resources
GUYdelines Articles: Our Quarterly E-Newsletter for Outdoor Lovers & Leaders
Vol.17 (2023)
No. 1: Listening to the Lucky to be Alive.
Vol.16 (2022)
No. 1: Courage is not the absence of fear.
No 2: It’s better to be aware than smart.
Vol.15 (2021)
No. 1: Go up, go down, or stay here.
No.4: Rigid with data and objectivity but flexible with planning
Vol. 14 (2020)
No. 1: Four Facing Directions of Leadership
No. 3: No Trust, No Relationship
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
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)
Vol. 8 (2014)
No. 1: Our work as a way of extending goodness into the world
No. 4: Some ideas (and quotes) I try to live by
Vol. 7 (2013)
No. 4: Lessons from Jackson WY
Vol. 6 (2012)
No. 1: Mary’s great adventures
No. 2: 9 thoughts for staying alive out there
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. 2: Last in the series of 10 human attitudes that lead to suffering – Naive optimism, leading to a gross failure to plan
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
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
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.
An Adventurer’s Guide to Integrating Faith and Work by Elise Daniel of the Institue for Faith, Work, and Economics, March 1, 2013.
“Learning is thinking about experience.” – John Dewey
“Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana