Our outdoor leadership course is delivered as both a dual qualification in conjunction with the Certificate IV in Guiding as well as a stand-alone traineeship.
If you’d like to choose your own outdoor adventure, this course is an ideal choice for you. You will open up career pathways to outdoor recreation, outdoor education, teaching, sports management, exercise science, tourism and international guiding through this course. Your potential employment settings include the corporate world, education and private enterprise.
To prepare you for the demands of the industry, our course focuses on outdoor activity training to both guide and instructor levels. You will learn specific skills in areas including bush-walking, canoeing, mountain biking, challenge course (High Ropes), risk management, navigation and trip planning. Develop the capabilities required to plan and deliver an outdoor recreation program for a wide range of clients.
At Box Hill Institute our Certificate IV in Outdoor Leadership is unique as it includes environmental and indigenous units – something not all programs offer. You'll learn in the beautiful Yarra Valley, surrounded by bushland and the lake, at our Lilydale Lakeside campus. Our industry partners are located within a 20km radius of the campus. You’ll also gain hands-on, practical experience in bush-walking, canoeing, mountain biking and skiing, and be trained at Instructor level.
