Kerry, 20th & 21st September 2025
The Workshops are designed to upskill individuals, club members, trainers, award trainees and providers. Each workshop provides mentoring opportunities for experienced trainers and meets CPD requirements for providers & relevant award holders.
The one-day courses on offer cover
- Teaching Navigation.
- Scrambling Skills
- Rock Climbing Skills
All workshops will be dictated by weather conditions, but we intend to cover the following topics:
Teaching Navigation Skills Workshop:
Teaching skills
- Simplifying our knowledge to teach beginners
- What makes a good location
- Choosing a suitable point to navigate to
- Being concise and focused when teaching beginners
- Useful exercises to use while teaching
Skills to learn
- Self-location skills
- Land reading
- Some tools for timing and pacing
- Route choice
- Features
Scrambling Skills Workshop:
- Un-roped movement on steep ground
- Roped movement on steep ground
- Techniques used in involving others in scrambling activities
- Passing on skills & knowledge to peers or others in your club
Climbing Skills Workshop:
- Rope work for climbing
- Belaying and lowering
- Bouldering and movement skills
- Techniques used in involving others in climbing activities
- Passing on skills knowledge to peers or others in your club
Cost is €60 per one-day course.
To book a place fill in the booking form and return via email to [email protected]