Scout Leadership Course Session Overview

Self Discipline involves a complicated mix of self control, self confidence and managing your own actions and behaviour. All Scouts are expected to demonstrate great self discipline in order to do their best. This self discipline is learnt or gained from experience and by watching others so those in leadership or role model positions must set the standard for others to follow.

Time to allocate for this session

30 minutes

Recomended programming for this session

This session can take place at any time.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the session, Scouts will:

• define self discipline
• understand the importance of leading by example
• demonstrate and understand the application of the Scout Law and Promise

Content to be Covered

During the session, you must cover:

• The meaning of self discipline
• Opportunities to lead by example
• The meaning of the Scout Law and Promise
• Exercises in practical application of the Scout Law and Promise

Measuring Success

The session outcomes will have been achieved if:

• Scouts can define self discipline
• Scouts can connect their own self discipline to their role as a leader
• Scouts can state practical examples of the Scout Law from their own daily life

Suggested Activities and Resources

Here are some recomended activities for this session:

Activity	Type of activity	Resources
Activity Choice 1: Acting the part	A short play to show Self Discipline.	Play ideas
Activity Choice 2: Patrol Leaders Creed	A poster creating task.	Patrol Leaders Creed
Activity Choice 3: Scout Law Incident Hike	A 30 minute trek to learn more about the Law.	Scout Law Incident Hike cue cards
Activity Choice 4: Disciplined guest speaker	An address by someone reknowned for self-discipline.

Participant Handouts

Resources that can be printed or included on a disk to take home:

Self Discipline

Training Adult Leaders

Adult Leaders attending for training purposes should:

• encourage Scouts to lead by example
• demonstrate and understand the application of the Scout Law and Promise in their programming