STRANDED LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Written By "Biz"

STRANDED What is It?

Stranded is the “Basic Training”  of Unusual Soldiers and there is nothing else like it on the planet. It's a training gauntlet that will test your endurance, character, and mental fortitude as you engage in a simulated mission trip to a dangerous region full of tribesmen, wild animals, and rebels. Stranded keeps you on your toes, because the script always changes and sometimes it hurts. Therefore, if you think that you know everything that happens at Stranded because you read Caleb's book 'Dangerous'...think again.

Stranded will give you the unique opportunity to walk in the shoes of those who are tragically suffering as well as help you discern your personal call to action. You will be discovering the common traits that reside inside of every unusual soldier (world-changer) as you dive into the Unusual Soldiers training manual. Lastly, you will be taken through some worst case scenarios that will teach you the basic principals of survival, escape, and evasion.

Stranded is led by the director of Unusual Soldiers, Caleb Bislow. Caleb is the author of Dangerous, an international missions strategist, and a speaker for Kingdom Building Ministries. Caleb speaks from experience because of his wide range of ministry in dark, dangerous, and despised places across the globe. He is an ordained minister and was trained in survival by Bear Grylls and ex-British Commandos in the Scottish highlands.

After you you survive Stranded you will go home with a training manual, some survival gear, missionary insights, and possibly a couple new scars. It’s tough...it’s grueling...it’s rewarding!

After completing Stranded you will become part of the Unusual Soldiers tribe. This makes you eligible to go to Slingshot as a means to develop a strategy for the vision that God has placed on your heart.

Goals Of Stranded

  • Awaken a calling to Dark, Dangerous, Despised Places

  • Discover who you are and begin to discern what territory God is calling you too.

  • Know how to survive in hard environments/people if you get in a bind

  • Understand core values of being an unusual soldiers and key components of missional strategy.

LEADERS/GUIDES/INTERNS ROLES & EXPECTATIONS

Guide Your Team

  1. Know your Team

  2. Visit every person

  3. Know everyones name

  4. Know little everyone’s passion

  1. Situational Awareness

  2. Risk Assesment- Safe Camp

  3. Individuals - Drinking water!

  4. Know the pasture (Map)

  1. Physical Training

  2. Random exercises - Cards

  3. Self Defense - Spear!

  4. Don’t overdo it, just wake them up.

  1. Debriefing with the team in the mornings

  2. Debriefing is an opportunity to reflect on an experience and make it meaningful by identifying what they learned about themselves, others, and ministering in DDD place.

  1. Sharing a missionary story at night

  2. Humility

  3. Passion

  4. Vision

  5. Courage

Transportation

    • People, Food , Objects, Airport runs, Drive to Lex

Be A Character

    • Vultures, Guides, Rebels, etc.

    • Goal: To be unrecognizable (voice,look)

Survival Lessons

You may be involved in teaching a survival lesson

    • Knife safetey

    • Fire

    • Shelter

    • Food

    • Water

    • Navigation

Set up & Tear Down

Run Challenges

Goals

      • Allow the confident to eat some humble pie

      • Elevate the humble

      • Allow people to confront their fears

      • Total Failure is not the goal.

      • Create Tough Decisions

      • Look for opportunities for people to choose the “selfless road” vs the “me road”

Egg Gauntlet Challenges

    • Web:  Girls, Glory, and Gold

    • Cure: One Remedy vs Relativism

    • Rope Swings: Redemptive Bridge

    • Goal Post: Ultimate Goal Making Disciples

    • Helium Stick: Unity of Missionaries


Nightly Checks

    • Midnight

    • 3 AM

Evening Meetings

    • Led by a co-leader

    • Go over the plans for the next day

    • Pray




DEBRIEFING TIPS

“When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus what they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew by  themselves to a town called Bethsaida.” Luke 9:10

Tips:

  • Make it a confidential setting

  • Get everyone to talk

  • Go around to each person at times

  • Make it interesting & unpredictable

  • Do 1 to 10 body checks

What?

What did you observe and feel?

So What?

What can you learn?

Conflicts, Commitment Level, Group Climate,  Cooperation, Gender Stereotypes, Personality Types, Organization, Strategy, Trust, Leadership, Communication, Feelings, Decision Making, Team Work, Unity, Positive Attitude.

Now What?
How can you apply this to real life or missions?


Optional: Crap Sandwich

Postives > Growth Areas > End on a Positive

OUTDOOR (BGSA) LESSON FORMAT

Layout of a basic survival lesson.  Each lesson may last up to one hour.

  • Teaching/demo 1/2 hour

  • Hands on 1/2 hour

1.  Introduction:

  • Name

  • Health and Safety

  • House Keeping

  • General info

2. Class Grabber: Story, Stat, Metaphor

3.  Aim and Objectives

Start - explanation of what you are doing

Middle - demonstration and practice

End -  Asking Open and Closed Questions

  • Closed question:  What is this? (one answer)

  • Open Questions: Lots of alternative answers.

  • Ask group as whole or ask individually

  • Quizzes - who can tell me?

4.  Summarize whole lesson: in one minute

5.  Look forward:  

Next up we are going to…..

Optional Methods:

DIP Method: Demonstrate - Imitate - Practice

Set Up - Organized

  • Bags laid out

  • show you are a pro

  • kits organized

  • regimented

  • teaching aids ready to go

Class Comfort

  • Be observant of how people are feeling

STRANDED STORYBOARD

A great story involves multiple tensions points that grow to an eventual climax.

2.  Multiple Tensions. (STRANDED)

A Missionary Team set out to a dangerous land to reach the Vulture tribe….etc.

"Biz"

Founder of Unusual Soldiers

https://instagram.com/just.a.wild.man/
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