08/24/2026
🌲⚜️ Become the Leader Your Scouts Deserve. Attend Wood Badge 2026! ⚜️🌲
Are you an adult leader in Scouting America looking to strengthen your leadership skills, build lasting friendships, and make an even greater impact on youth?
Wood Badge is Scouting America's premier leadership training course for adults ages 18 and older. Similar leadership programs in the corporate world can cost thousands of dollars, but Wood Badge delivers world-class leadership development tailored to Scouting volunteers.
During this unforgettable experience, you'll learn practical leadership skills including:
✅ Listening & Communication
✅ Managing Conflict
✅ Leading Change
✅ Team Development
✅ Coaching & Mentoring
✅ Servant Leadership
✅ Project Planning
✅ And much more!
These skills don't stay at camp. You'll use them at home, work, church, and anywhere leadership is needed.
Why attend?
🌟 Strengthen your unit
🌟 Gain a deeper understanding of Scouting
🌟 Build lifelong friendships and connections
🌟 Learn skills you can use every day
🌟 Have an incredible amount of fun!
As Baden-Powell believed, Wood Badge is about coming together, sharing experiences, growing as leaders, and living the values of Scouting. Every Scout deserves a trained leader, and Wood Badge helps you become one of the very best.
📅 2026 Wood Badge Course
📍 Lake of the Ozarks Scout Reservation
🗓 October 2-4 and October 17-18, 2026
⚠️ Attendance at both weekends is required.
Don't let cost keep you from attending. Scholarship opportunities may be available, and some employers may help cover registration costs.
🎟️ The time is NOW to invest in yourself and the future of our youth members!
Learn more👉 scoutingevent.com/653-woodbadge2026