The Scouting Stuff Podcast
Everything you should know about #Scouting in #Canada, and occasionally other places.
Episodes
What is the Better Programs Initiative? Let’s find out!
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Scouter Ken is joined by Scouter Alicia, who is one of the representatives of Scouts Canada’s new Better Programs Initiative, a knowledge-sharing forum where Scouters can share (and find) ideas on how to run a top-tier Scouting program.
Visit this episode's page at our website to find QR codes for the initiative and the Scouts Canada Network.
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If you aren’t already planning for how different roles within your group can transition between people, you need to be.
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Scouter Ken is joined by Scouter Corey - the outgoing Group Commissioner for the 59th Edmonton Scout Group - to discuss the importance of planning for how to transition people out of (and into!) roles within a Scout Group.
Transition planning takes many forms. Ideally, the outgoing role holder shoul...
Youth between the ages of 14 and 17 can also volunteer as Scouters, at least in Scouts Canada.
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In their first in-person sit-down session of the year, Scouter Ken and Scouter Colin discuss Youth Scouters. This is an extension of the volunteer apparatus within Scouts Canada that allows minors (between the ages of 14 and 17) to go through the training and interview process that adult volunteers must complete to become S...
Scouts Canada has partnered with Busy Minds and Little Yogis Academy to help bring mindfulness into program content.
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Scouter Ken and Scouter Mike are joined by Michelle Faber, the founder of Busy Minds, for a live discussion mindfulness, its importance to mental health, and the ways in which Scouts Canada is partnering with Busy Minds (and Little Yogis) to add mindfulness exercises into group programming.
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...The first ever LIVE episode of Scouting Stuff, and an introduction to Scouts Canada’s “Sasquatch Seekers” event.
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In the first of what will become a series of LIVE episodes, Scouter Ken is joined by Kate Larkin - the Director of Program & Volunteer Services for Scouts Canada - to discuss the Sasquatch Seekers challenge. This is a series of four weekly challenges for Scout Groups across Canada to complete, explorin...
Beaver Scouts (at least in Canada) is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024.
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Scouter Ken and Scouter Colin - finally, only two months into 2024! - sit down (virtually) to discuss Beaver Scouts. Despite a popular Canadian legend that the program for “younger than Cub Scout” youth was developed in Canada and exported to the world, the actual history of it goes back a bit further...to Northern Ireland, in fact.
But h...
Two brothers - twins, at that! - discuss their introduction to Scouts Canada and the roles they’ve served in therewith.
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Scouter Shayne and Scouter Sheldon rejoin the podcast for another episode, this time to discuss their respective Scouting journeys with Scouter Ken. Though they came to the organization in different ways (and at different times), they both ended up serving as Group Commissioners for two different On...
What is the rangemaster role within Scouting, and how do you become one?
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Scouter Ken is joined by Scouter Sheldon, the program director for Camp Everton in Ontario (and, coincidentally, the brother of Scouter Shayne from Episode 144).
Much of the discussion in this episode focuses on the role of the rangemaster, which within Scouts Canada is a specifically-trained person who can run archery, pelletry, and even axe/to...
Where can youth find leadership opportunities? Funny you should ask!
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Scouter Ken is joined by Scouter Shayne from Ontario for this episode. Among many other roles, Scouter Shayne has served as a Group Commissioner, a Section Scouter, and a Contact Scouter, and has also been with the Canadian Forces for three decades.
The discussion ranges over a few topics, including the similarities and differences between Scouting ...
Scouts across Africa help the vulnerable, Scouts in Canada sell trees...and Scouts were even at COP28.
News Stories
Advancing Gender Equality through Scouting in Ethiopia
Reintegrating Vulnerable Young People through Ticket to Life Initiative in Africa
4th World Scout Education Congress Shaping the Future of Education in Scouting
Scouts help with hurricane relief, JOTA-JOTI breaks records...and Hungarian Scouts camp on a river.
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Scouts de Mexico Extend a Helping Hand in Hurricane Aftermath
A Record JOTA-JOTI! Digital Meets In Person for an Epic Jamboree
No need to fear… the Boy Scouts are here!
River Scout Camp: A Journey Through Time with Hungarian Scouts
Two of the three French Scouters who traveled by bicycle to WSJ 2023 tell us all about their adventure!
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Scouter Ken is joined by Florian and Antonin – two of the three French Scouters who comprise La CyclOdyssée, who we mentioned briefly in the January 16 episode of Scouting Five – to discuss their 7-month journey to the World Scout Jamboree in Korea.
Because rather than fly from France to get there, they opted inste...
Are you taking part in JOTA-JOTI this year?
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Sadly, there won’t be any Scouting Stuff neckers or crests at this time; orders for both items didn’t meet the production thresholds. If you placed an order, it’ll be cancelled and you’ll get a refund.
Stickers are still available, however!
The Biggest Annual Scouting Event is On: It’s JOTA-JOTI 2023!
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...A bit more information about how Scouts BSA' Transatlantic Council is structured, and the role Kandersteg plays in it.
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Scouter Will, from Scouts BSA’s Transatlantic Council, joins the podcast to discuss the Council and its role in allowing the children of deployed soldiers and diplomats to continue participating in Scouting even when they’re nowhere near the United States.
And as it turns out, Kandersteg Internat...
A successful musical fundraiser, Scouts Canada apologizes...and Scouts in Brazil get crafty with plastic waste.
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- Aberdeen Explorer Scouts invited to Scottish Parliament to mark fundraising efforts
- Scouts Canada issues apology for role in ‘historical harm’ on Indigenous Peoples
- The Girl Scouts are discontinuing a cult-favorite cookie
- Moment cub scouts as young as seven dodge traffic on dark country lane after ge...
Scouter Paul from the Hudson Explorers explains a fun game his unit plays with paper boats...and fire.
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Whilst at Kander100, Scouter Ken met up with Scouter Paul from the Hudson Explorers, an Explorer Scout unit based in Sutton Coldfield, just outside of Birmingham. Some of the unit are regular listeners of the podcast, and that little meet & greet turned into an invitation to join them - and a few other contingen...
Scouts respond to disasters, another Scout Group loses gear to theft...and you can now get a podcast necker or badge!
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Scouting Stuff Merchandise Pre-Orders
Ride the Waves Not the Waste with Scouts of Trinidad & Tobago
Libyan Scouts' Heroic Response to Devastating Floods
Morocco’s Scouts unite to launch relief efforts after deadly earthquake
Moncton, N.B. scout troop loses $8,000 worth of camping equipment in th...
The Kander100 Jamboree was a huge success. World Jamboree 2023...not so much.
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Ken and Colin discuss the challenges - to put it mildly - faced by those who attended the 25th World Scout Jamboree in Korea this summer, as well as the response of WOSM and various national contingents to the heat wave and other issues that emerged at the site.
And then the conversation shifts to Kander100 and the experience of the Canadia...
Jamborees around the world, a new WOSM member organization...and a disturbing documentary.
News Stories
Scouts Honor: The disturbing true story behind Netflix documentary
Former Scouts Canada employee sentenced to 4 years for sex crimes
Proposed settlement reached in Ralph Rowe lawsuit
A wave of transformation: 80,000 Scouts spark change in Algeria
Saudi Girls in Scouting Volunteer in Large Numbers During Pilgrim Service
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a volunteer at Kandersteg International Scout Centre?
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Scouter Ken chats with Sam (from Canada) and Laura (from the United States), two “Pinkies” (read: seasonal volunteers) at the Kandersteg International Scout Centre (KISC).
Sam and Laura explain what it’s like to be a Pinkie, as well as how to apply for the role. Pinkies serve three-month terms roughly corresponding to the four se...
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