About White Stag Wilderness Leadership Summer Camp
This program has been run continuously since 1958 in Monterey, California. It is based upon proven leadership skills that successful leaders have learned through trial and error. The White Stag program has defined these skills into 11 leadership competencies. Successful leaders also know that experiential and progressive learning is far more effective than other forms. We have adapted this concept into what we call our manager of learning process. This is the foundation of our White Stag camp program. Thousands of young men and women have been inspired, graduated from the White Stag program and have taken leadership positions in their communities.
We tie these proven leadership skills together with adventure, wilderness, legends and lore of the White Stag. Your child experiences a summer camp unlike any other. It’s
part stretching, growing, figuring out, making new friends, doing things together that requires group effort, using proven leadership skills, hiking, backpacking, and breaking out. They’ll learn to make themselves heard above everybody else.
We call this White Stag, for others, it’s a way of life. Whatever you call it, your young leaders will find inspiration to move forward in life.
About White Stag
The 1933 Scout World Jamboree was held in Hungary. The symbol used to represent the jamboree was the Hungarian legendary White Stag. The founder of scouting Lord Baden-Powell mentioned the challenge to reach for goals that appear to be beyond your capabilities and to thus grow to meet the challenge.
It is a well regarded concept to aim high.
White Stag Wilderness Leadership Program Founding
Started in 1958, in Monterey, California by Bela Banathy to research and codify the idea that leadership skill can be
learned and as a means to keep older scouts engaged in the scouting program.
The result the creation of prototype scout troops mirroring this concept, and later more robust wilderness leadership summer camps. White Stag concepts have been scaled and adapted for national wide use. However by institutionalizing the concepts to a national level, the progressive, flexible, and spontaneous features that make White Stag so successful were lost.
White Stag succeeds today through the positive experiences and referrals of inspired young leaders.
