Boot Camp touches down in the land of fish and chips
Boot Camp for New Dads, sponsored by Dads Adventure, is expanding to England!
In April of 2005 Greg Bishop, founder of Boot Camp, was asked to speak at a national fatherhood conference in England about his experiences. Since that time Greg has worked with Fathers Direct (England’s national fatherhood organization) to bring Boot Camp to the UK.
In May both Greg and Chuck Ault (National Training Director for Boot Camp) traveled to Liverpool (home of the world’s greatest soccer team, sorry couldn’t resist) to oversee the first Hit the Ground Crawling workshops (a name which works better in England than “Boot Camp for New Dads”).
This workshop was special because all of the rookie dads were teenagers, who face much bigger hurdles to becoming dads. In Greg’s own words, it was “very gratifying for Chuck and I to see Boot Camp work so well in another country, and particularly with teen fathers. It was great to see Chuck in action as he conducted the training, and the response from the trainees was unanimous – ‘the best training they ever attended, we proved it works right before their eyes, and equipped them so they could go home and get it up and running.”
In fact, Boot Camp may be expanding into other countries in the next few years. And while this is certainly exciting for those of us who work for/with Boot Camp, the really great thing about it is that men around the world might get the experience that over 150,000 men in this country have had by seeing confident, capable, new fathers care for their children and pass on what they’ve learned to the next “generation” of dads-to-be.
A short video from the first class. (the sound isn’t great; sorry!)
