Hướng Đạo Sinh with packs and walking staves halted on a boardwalk through pine woods

Trại Huấn Luyện

The adult path into Hướng Đạo Việt Nam does not run through a signup form. It runs through a camp.

No camp is currently scheduled.

There is no camp on the national calendar today.

When the Hội sets a date for a Trại Huấn Luyện, it is posted here before it is posted anywhere else. We would rather leave this space honest than fill it.

The program itself does not wait on this page. A Liên Đoàn runs its own họp đội every week, its own Hội Đồng Đoàn every month, and its own campouts. If you want to know what is happening this weekend, the Liên Đoàn nearest you is the place to ask.

Trại Huấn Luyện Trưởng: registration is closedNo new session has been announced

What our camps are

Three courses, and each one has been run. This is the ground a camp covers, whether or not a date is currently on the calendar.

  1. Trại Huấn Luyện Trưởng

    Training camp for Trưởng

    The course an adult goes through before taking a Đoàn. It introduces the Trưởng to the core values and the key processes of HĐVN.US: how a Đoàn is launched, what the thirteen methods actually are, and how the Phương Pháp Hàng Đội does the work.

    Registration is closedNo date has been set for the next one

  2. Trại Huấn Luyện Đội Trưởng Đội Phó

    Training camp for đội trưởng and đội phó

    Youth leadership, taught to the youth. An Đội elects at least one đội trưởng and one đội phó, and the job is real: keep the HĐS enjoying themselves, hold the Đội together, give every HĐS in it a responsibility, and answer for the Đội to the Đoàn and to the Liên Đoàn.

  3. Trại Huấn Luyện Cơ Bản, Trưởng / Phụ Huynh

    Basic camp for Trưởng and phụ huynh

    A parent is a member of this Hội too. The basic course puts phụ huynh and Trưởng over the same ground, so a family understands the method their child is being raised inside rather than only the weekend it produces.

The syllabus of a Trại Huấn Luyện Trưởng

The published syllabus of Trại Huấn Luyện Trưởng HĐVN 1, run at Brazos Bend State Park on Saturday June 5 2021.

A parent asking whether this method is real is entitled to see the actual course. This is it, in the order it was taught, from 8:30 in the morning until ten at night.

  1. 01Fundamentals of HĐVNWhere the Hội comes from and what it is for
  2. 02How to launch a Đoàn HĐVNFrom nothing to a Đoàn that runs
  3. 03The HĐVN Way, the 13 methods of HĐS developmentThirteen methods across five levels
  4. 04The Phương Pháp Hàng ĐộiHow it develops character and promotes human connection and emotional well being
A Trưởng in HĐVN uniform tying the khăn quàng of a young Hướng Đạo Sinh at an outdoor ceremony, the American flag and the yellow and red heritage flag behind them

Reference materials

The books and course material behind it

  • Huấn Luyện Trưởng Căn Bản (Sói Trung Hậu) HDVN.US
  • Scouting for Boys, Baden-Powell
  • Aids to Scoutmastership, Baden-Powell, 1920

Four emphases run through every course: character, skills, fitness and service.

The camps already held

The camps HĐVN.US has held. This is the whole record, not a selection from it.

  1. 2022

    Trại Huấn Luyện Cơ Bản, Trưởng / Phụ Huynh HĐVN 2

    The second basic course for Trưởng and phụ huynh.

    May 13 to 15, 2022

  2. 2021

    Trại Huấn Luyện Đội Trưởng Đội Phó 1

    The first course for đội trưởng and đội phó.

    October 8 to 10, 2021Lake Houston Wilderness Park

  3. 2021

    Trại Huấn Luyện Trưởng HĐVN 1

    The first Trưởng training camp. Its stated objective: introduce Trưởng to the core values and processes of HĐVN.

    Saturday June 5, 2021 · 8:30AM to 10PMBrazos Bend State Park

  4. 2019

    Huấn Luyện Trưởng

    Trưởng training.

    June 2019

Camping targets

These are stated targets of the Hội, not a count of what has been achieved. We publish them because a parent deserves to know what the program is aiming at.

The outdoors is where a HĐS meets rain, sun, heat, cold, hunger, thirst and tiredness. That is not the hardship in the way of the program. That is the program.

15 nights
Camping per year, for every HĐSA stated target, not a count of what has been done
5 nights
One long camp, run back to backAt least one such camp inside those 15 nights
4 years
Between one national gathering and the nextThe whole Hội camps together
32
Maximum HĐS in one ĐoànThe cap that keeps the method personal