Be Prepared

When I was a boy in Southern Ontario, every WASPish boy like me went to Boy Scouts. You started at age 5 with Beavers, moved up to Cubs at 7, and then eventually graduated to the full Boy Scouts program. I mostly remember the games, my first exposure to what would become a life-long love of canoe camping, and the really scratchy wool shirt that my mother sewed my merit badges on. But the one lesson that has stood me well as a learning designer and facilitator has been the Boy Scout motto: Be Prepared. I've lived this in spades this past week as I prepared for facilitating a session of GLP's dialogue education foundations course, Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Principles and Practices of Dialogue Education.

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