Wood Badge is BSA's ultimate leadership training for adults.  Designed for leaders of all BSA programs.  Wood Badge is a fun, challenging and inspirational Scouting experience.  It offers a six-day immersion in the theory, practice and experience of appropriate skills for leading others within Scouting and in many environments beyond the BSA.

Participants can expect to develop skills in many areas, including leadership theory, team building, problem-solving, communication, conflict resolution, project planning and more that can be taken directly back to packs, troops, ships and crews to help leaders guide youth in dynamic Scouting programs.

Wood Badge consists of two parts.  The first is a six-day practical program (offered in two 3-day camping weekends).  The second part, completed over the following 18 months, requires participants to apply the skills they have learned by completing five goals (called your "ticket") leading towards the participant's vision of a better Scouting future.

The format for the practical part of the Wood Badge Course is two 3-day weekends; Friday at 7:30 am until Sunday at 5:00 pm, (separated by three to four weeks).  Both weekends for the 2019 courses are held at Bovay Scout Ranch, and participants will camp both weekends.  Participants must attend at least one interim patrol meeting between the first and second weekends (specific time and location to be determined by patrol members).