Participants are organized in teams of no more than eight, mirroring a typical local patrol and troop. A staff member, called a troop guide, is assigned to each patrol (a team) to coach, mentor, and present some sessions and activities, much as a den chief would in a den of a pack. Administrative services and rule compliance are left to the adult supervision. The steps are: • Explain — "The trainer explains how something is done." • Demonstrate — "The trainer demonstrates while explaining again." • Guide — "The learner tries the skill while the trainer guides him through it." • Enable — "The learner works on his own under the eye of the trainer." Program objectives include developing confidence, knowledge, leadership, teaching, motivation, team working, sharing ideas, sharing experiences, strengthening relationships between youth and adults, fellowship, and fun. Many of the key course concepts are represented as
mnemonics including planning and problem-solving tools that focus on where, what, how, when, and who (5WH); the start, stop, continue method of assessing progress;
forming, storming, norming, performing often labeled the stages of team development; explain, demonstrate, guide, and enable or EDGE method (consult pages 38–39 in the 13th and 14th editions of the
Scouts BSA Handbook which describes the Teaching EDGE method); express, address, and resolve or EAR conflict resolution tool; right vs. wrong, right vs. right, and trivial ethical decision making; message, sender, and receiver communication; and reach out, organize, practice, and experience or ROPE approach to human value. ==National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience==