The Scouting Stuff Podcast

How do you retain members of your Scout group? And how do you retain leaders, for that matter?Subscribe on iTunes | Like Us on Facebook | Follow Us on TwitterPodcast TopicOne of the big challenges facing any Scout group is that of retaining members. What are some of the reasons that Scouts (and Cubs, and Beavers, and leaders too) will drift away from Scouting, and how can Scout groups — at all levels, from national down to the individual leaders — respond to this and keep Scouts

National Scouting bodies periodically overhaul their programs and methods. How do Scout groups, and individual Scouters, respond to this?Subscribe on iTunes | Like Us on Facebook | Follow Us on TwitterPodcast TopicHow many times have we, as participants and as leaders, been faced with a change in the program (e.g. uniforms, badges, program content)?What is the cost of a program change?Most recent example: Candian Path (Scouts Canada)What it is: Canadian Path websiteProgram Quality

Is it just a bad B-movie? Or is there something in it that actually reflects Scouting in some way?Subscribe on iTunesPodcast TopicAs was alluded to in Episode 3, some of us were able to go and see Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, a movie that pits — yes — Boy Scouts (it is set in the United States, after all) against zombies. We had initially expected that the movie would be little more than an appropriation of the Scouting label...but it turns out that there's actually more to it than that

Should the Scout Uniform be worn as a Halloween costume? Also, we should have made a bigger deal out of JOTA-JOTI.This episode is a bit more off the cuff, so here's a list of topics discussed:Should the Scout Uniform be work as a Halloween costume?The new zombie movie, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, looks...questionable. We will go see it and offer a review.We missed JOTA-JOTI this year! We're totally going to have to jump in on that next October.ScoutLink is a cool organization that

Why do Scouts wear uniforms? What are the essential components of a Scout uniform?We're discussing uniforms in this episode. If you look at the etymology of the word “uniform”, it basically means “one form”; it's an outward sign of the unity of a group, of the fact that they are all there for the same purpose, to work toward the same goal(s). This is as true for a soccer team as for a Scout group, and the intent is the same; some individuality is stripped away — and differences based on ethnicity

What exactly is Scouting?In this first Scouting Stuff You Should Know podcast, Ken, Colin, and Brian examine the question of just what Scouting is. We take a look at how some of the different Scouting movements around the world define it, and also refer back to Lord Baden Powell's Scouting for Boys (which doesn't offer as concrete a definition of what Scouting itself is, although it goes into great detail about the characteristics of a Scout).MusicGalizur, by John Zorn & The Dreamers