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Motivation and Leadership Training Aboard Tall Ships
By Captain Bob Webb
Tall ships inspire youth to develop leadership, team building, and problem
solving skills where nature is the instructor and motivator.
In the past, windjammers (tall ships) were used for world
discovery and conquest. Today they are used for self-discovery and
self-conquest.
Experience aboard a tall ship inspires a vision that
transcends into motivation that has the power to overcome ALL barriers.
Tall ships are natural learning environments, that
teach and motivate participants to learn with nature as an instructor.
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Building character through adventure.
To develop a love to learn that lasts a lifetime. People who
maintain a love to learn are the ones who change the world.
Exploring and discovery awakens our inner self, creating a
desire to learn more about the world around us, setting in motion a vision. A
vision is the source of all achievement.
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Note: This page is an outline of a proposed maritime program for
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- The Need for Self-Discovery
- Many teenagers only experience is with asphalt, walls, high tech
entertainment and the struggle for power to control others. They develop
a relationship with a manmade world that is based on materialism and
greed. They learn nothing about being in harmony with the forces of
nature.
- The Clipper Schooner
- The Baltimore Clipper (sharp-lined hull) class of ships are rated
the most beautiful sailing vessels ever built. Their beauty is a source
of inspiration, with the ability of stirring lifelong dreams into
action.
- Teen Responsibility
- I told the teenagers they had to assume full responsibility, including
getting the ship ready for sailing, which included supplies, and they must
assume full responsibility for the ship at sea. I will not intervene with
their decisions even if it is bad, they had to learn from their mistakes. I
will only intervened if the decision is too risky, which turned out to be
rare.
- Motivating Teenagers
- How Sailing Programs Change Attitudes
- Ocean sailing is an educational opportunity where the curriculum is
controlled by nature. The crew and ship must work in harmony with nature.
When under way, there is the never-ending task of learning how the
interaction of the vessel reacts with fluid dynamics and the atmosphere. The
crew becomes comfortable with cause and effect, as well as persistence,
endurance, patience, and courage; attitudes that are almost impossible to
teach in a classroom.
- The Power of Teams - Team
Motivation
- The Windjammer program teaches teamwork and the benefits of coaching
versus orders. Not everyone can develop a high level of independence,
but they can achieve powerful results in a team-motivated environment.
The Microsoft Corporation was started by teenagers who pooled their
knowledge to overcome impossible barriers.
- Elements of Successful Tall Ships
- Community tall ships are successful when organized right.
Charleston, SC in 2006, tall ship Sprit of South Carolina was launched.
2011 it was put up for sail. The organizers promoted it as a neat idea
with no clear purpose and no supporting organization. People soon become
tired of supporting a neat idea.
- The Adventure at Charles
Town Landing
- This is a Charleston Tall ship where the promoters got it right. The
museum was the supporting organization and the purpose was to show how
early settlers arrived in South Carolina. The ship was designed to meet
the theme of the organization.
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