A begining

Greetings!

At long last this blog is up and running. Praise the Lord! My work, at Spirit of Adventure, takes me to incredible places, allows me to meet wonderful and insightful people and constantly puts me in positions which are challenging and force me to have an enquiring mind. The idea behind this blog is to reflect on the adventures we're having and allow you to experience them too. It will be loads of fun I'm sure.

Teaching leadership is a particularly complicated idea, especially because many would say that leadership can't be taught and some even suggest it can't be learnt. One should be very suspicious of anyone claiming that they can teach you everything you need to know about leadership, it isn't an exact science. Despite that, we have been dedicating ourselves to the study of leadership since 1994. What we aim to do is give people real experiences of working in groups and leading them through adventure activities in breath-taking parts of the world. We then debrief or 'review' what happened, bringing in the best theories and most useful handles we can find. I trust this process allows folks to leave or courses feeling a little better prepared for when the moment comes for them to step up and respond to the call of leadership which we will all hear at least once in our lives.

Jump on for the ride if you feel like thrashing out some of the most important questions about life, relationships and the art of working with other human beings, we'll throw in a good dose of humour and open mindedness with dollops of controversy and perhaps the odd spot of wisdom.

I'm heading off to Shongweni Game reserve now to join a group of students who are on a course with us at the moment.

Speak to you soon.

Paul