Leadership Expedition to Patagonia

Leadership Expedition to Patagonia

Leadership Programs is excited to announce the second annual Johnson Leadership Expedition to Patagonia. Students will travel to Patagonia, Chile from January 1-13, 2014, where they’ll test and enhance their leadership skills in an unpredictable, challenging, and dynamic wilderness environment.

Students can expect to:

• experience ambiguity and adversity;
• be forced to make decisions with incomplete, inconclusive, and/or conflicting information;
• take turns assuming full responsibility for the entire group; and,
• receive real-time feedback and coaching on their leadership efforts.

In short, this is a chance to practice, rather than just talk about, real leadership.

Students will also be expected to support each other’s leadership development and will be guided, in real-time, on how to give effective feedback and coaching to the rest of the team.

Read about (and see photos from) the 2013 Patagonia Leadership Expedition in the Cornell Enterprise, on the Johnson website, and on the NOLS blog!

Interested?
If you are interested in learning more about this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, please carefully review all of the following information. Once you are ready to enroll, please visit our online registration form.

Patagonia
Patagonia is a remote wilderness of isolated mountain valleys, ragged icy peaks, turbulent rivers, and island archipelagos. This is a land that demands exploration, and students will experience some of its dramatic landscape firsthand. The hallmarks of a NOLS Patagonia course are remoteness, fickle weather, and exploration.

The Johnson team will begin in the Aisen Region of Chile, where they’ll start and end the expedition at NOLS’ main base camp—a working farm of several hundred acres set in a beautiful landscape near the city of Coyhaique.

National Outdoor Leadership School
For the second year in a row, Johnson is partnering with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) to plan and execute this expedition. NOLS is an internationally-renowned leadership training institute with 46 years of wilderness training experience. NOLS believes that "what [it] teaches cannot be learned in a traditional classroom or on a city street. It takes...time to develop leadership. The backcountry provides the ideal setting for this unique, experiential education—NOLS classrooms are some of the world’s wildest and most awe-inspiring locations."

 Leadership Expeditions

Leadership Expeditions are a chance to leave Ithaca and dig in, full-time, to your leadership development. Expeditions are designed to give students the opportunity to go through the Johnson leadership learning cycle of instruction, experience, and review multiple times in an intensive, condensed timeframe.

 Logistics
Dates: January 1-13, 2014. The expedition dates are January 3-11, but students must arrive in Coyhaique no later than the evening of January 2 (please note that to do that, you will most likely need to depart the US on January 1) and can expect to fly back to the US on January 12 (most likely arriving home on the 13th).

Academic Credit: Participation in the Patagonia Trek (which will include a few pre-and-post trip classroom sessions in Ithaca and some reflective
written work) will count as 1.5 academic credits on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

Program Fees: Students will be responsible for round-trip airfare to Patagonia, plus a program fee of $2,100. The program fee is non-refundable.

Next Steps

• If you have questions, please contact Ingrid Jensen.
• Once you are ready to enroll, please visit our online registration form.