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Everything you should know about #Scouting in #Canada, and occasionally other places.

The Scouting Stuff Podcast The Scouting Stuff Team

    • Kids & Family
    • 4.7 • 18 Ratings

Everything you should know about #Scouting in #Canada, and occasionally other places.

    Busy Minds LIVE!

    Busy Minds LIVE!

    Scouts Canada has partnered with Busy Minds and Little Yogis Academy to help bring mindfulness into program content.

    Podcast Topics

    Scouter Ken and Scouter Mike are joined by Michelle Faber, the founder of Busy Minds, for a live discussion mindfulness, its importance to mental health, and the ways in which Scouts Canada is partnering with Busy Minds (and Little Yogis) to add mindfulness exercises into group programming.

    Learn more:


    Busy Minds
    Little Yogis

    Mindfulness apps discussed in the episode:


    Calm
    Headspace
    Hallow

    And again: this episode is a recording of a live event that was done on the Scouts Canada Discussion Group on Facebook, and on Workspace/The Network.

    Shout-Outs

    A big thank you to Scouts Canada and Mike Eybel for facilitating this episode, and to Kate Larkin for being the inaugural guest!

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    Music

    Upbeat Rock (Good News), by Alex Grohl

    • 47 min
    Sasquatch Seekers LIVE!

    Sasquatch Seekers LIVE!

    The first ever LIVE episode of Scouting Stuff, and an introduction to Scouts Canada’s “Sasquatch Seekers” event.

    Podcast Topics

    In the first of what will become a series of LIVE episodes, Scouter Ken is joined by Kate Larkin - the Director of Program & Volunteer Services for Scouts Canada - to discuss the Sasquatch Seekers challenge. This is a series of four weekly challenges for Scout Groups across Canada to complete, exploring a variety of activities and skills all themed around the hunt for Canada’s most elusive megafauna.

    (There’s also a leaderboard, by the way. With prizes.)

    Mike Eybel - the Associate Director of Communications for Scouts Canada, and an occasional guest of the podcast - also makes an appearance or two.

    And again: this episode is a recording of a live event that was done on the Scouts Canada Discussion Group on Facebook.

    Shout-Outs

    A big thank you to Scouts Canada and Mike Eybel for facilitating this episode, and to Kate Larkin for being the inaugural guest!

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    Upbeat Rock (Good News), by Alex Grohl

    • 35 min
    #Beavers50

    #Beavers50

    Beaver Scouts (at least in Canada) is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024.

    Podcast Topics

    Scouter Ken and Scouter Colin - finally, only two months into 2024! - sit down (virtually) to discuss Beaver Scouts. Despite a popular Canadian legend that the program for “younger than Cub Scout” youth was developed in Canada and exported to the world, the actual history of it goes back a bit further...to Northern Ireland, in fact.

    But half a century ago, Scouts Canada officially launched its Beaver Scouts section, and is planning on celebrating that this summer. Is your group ready? Is your council?

    By the way, if you want to see what different Scouting NSOs call their sections, here’s a lengthy list.

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    Music

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    • 41 min
    A Tale of Two Commissioners

    A Tale of Two Commissioners

    Two brothers - twins, at that! - discuss their introduction to Scouts Canada and the roles they’ve served in therewith.

    Podcast Topics

    Scouter Shayne and Scouter Sheldon rejoin the podcast for another episode, this time to discuss their respective Scouting journeys with Scouter Ken. Though they came to the organization in different ways (and at different times), they both ended up serving as Group Commissioners for two different Ontario Scout Groups at the same time.

    Also: camp cooking. We talk about camp cooking.

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    • 47 min
    The Rangemaster

    The Rangemaster

    What is the rangemaster role within Scouting, and how do you become one?

    Podcast Topics

    Scouter Ken is joined by Scouter Sheldon, the program director for Camp Everton in Ontario (and, coincidentally, the brother of Scouter Shayne from Episode 144).

    Much of the discussion in this episode focuses on the role of the rangemaster, which within Scouts Canada is a specifically-trained person who can run archery, pelletry, and even axe/tomahawk-throwing.

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    • 25 min
    Scouts Lead Stuff

    Scouts Lead Stuff

    Where can youth find leadership opportunities? Funny you should ask!

    Podcast Topics

    Scouter Ken is joined by Scouter Shayne from Ontario for this episode. Among many other roles, Scouter Shayne has served as a Group Commissioner, a Section Scouter, and a Contact Scouter, and has also been with the Canadian Forces for three decades.

    The discussion ranges over a few topics, including the similarities and differences between Scouting and the military, why girls being part of Scouting is still a surprise to some people to this day, and the leadership opportunities that Scouting affords young people.

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    • 45 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
18 Ratings

18 Ratings

Liam Tait from 2nd airdrie ,

Amazing

As a scout this is interesting to listen to.

Osbot ,

Truly enjoyable!

Just getting back to Scouting as my own kids are of age. This podcast has been a great connection for me to get into a Scouter mindset and rediscover a passion from my youth. I appreciate the wisdom on things like knife safety as well as the regular news updates.

Robin4971 ,

Great podcast!

I’m a new Scouter volunteer and was looking for a variety of ways to get information on scouting besides just the learning through Woodbadge and the scout website and this has been great to listen to. I started at episode 1 and I’m on 14 now. I definitely recommend it!

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