Why Wood Badge?

I suspect some of you feel like I did about Wood Badge going in. That is, I was skeptical at best and hostile at worst. I did not want to give over two full weekends (+) to the endeavor, and I was worried that I wouldn't fit in with the dyed-in-the-wool Scouters.

Happily, experiences changes perspective and, like this Scouter, I came to see the value of what I was doing.

After her first day of Wood Badge, Renee Estrella-Wells was tired and more than a little overwhelmed.

“It felt like not just one fire hose of information drowning you, but three,” she said. “I questioned who told me this was fun and if I should show them the definition of fun.”

Read her story.