{"id":30255,"date":"2020-02-14T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=30255"},"modified":"2020-02-14T09:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:52:52","slug":"boulder-climbing-part-of-nine-week-program-to-instill-confidence-and-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/boulder-climbing-part-of-nine-week-program-to-instill-confidence-and-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Boulder-climbing part of nine-week program to instill confidence and initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"889\" data-attachment-id=\"30267\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/boulder-climbing-part-of-nine-week-program-to-instill-confidence-and-initiative\/mocs-lead-climbing-20-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,889\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Mocs LEAD students practice their climbing skills Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020 in the ARC.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1580999531&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;4000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mocs LEAD Climbing-20&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mocs LEAD Climbing-20\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead-1024x711.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30267 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead-580x403.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead-610x424.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead-250x174.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead-576x400.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abassi Walker stares up at the 13-foot tall vertical wall, a gray mass pocked with multicolored knobs, handholds and what amount to nothing more than slight bulges.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a deep breath, he grasps a handhold, places his right foot on one of the large knobs and pushes off. Long-limbed and lanky, he looks like a spider as he slowly makes his way up. Then a foot slips. Down he comes, landing with an \u201coof!\u201d on the thick crash pads below.<\/p>\n<p>Walker and 13 other students\u2014all female\u2014are in the Boulder Wall Room at the UTC Aquatic Recreation Center, here as part of Moc LEAD (Leaders Encouraging A Difference), the nine-week program designed to prepare students to be successful leaders in the community after they graduate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program achieves this goal through interactive workshops that help students explore a critical topic in a new and engaging way, by helping them discover a new skill or new knowledge and connecting students to a network of resources to achieve their desired outcomes,\u201d said Daniel Grzesik, director leadership development and programs.<\/p>\n<p>Moc LEAD launched in the 2017-18 academic year and is open to any undergraduate or graduate student in good standing with the university. \u00a0Among the topics covered in the program are\u00a0 \u201cYour Leadership Preferences,\u201d \u201cCommunication Styles,\u201d \u201cLeaders and Integrity\u201d and \u201cPublic Speaking Skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The session in the Boulder Wall Room is a lesson in \u201cGoal Setting and Motivation\u201d and, while bouldering might seem like an odd way to approach that subject, Walker says it helps with \u201cperseverance and self-determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A junior in business analytics, he says he hopes the Moc LEAD program \u201cwill give me a bunch of tools that I can leverage to make myself a better person and really an effective communicator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see myself as a natural born leader, but I\u2019m not exactly sure how to put that into my career,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Katelyn Brown, another Moc LEAD student, also made it to the top of a bouldering wall, doing it on her first try. Making it to the top means touching the top of the wall with a hand, not clambering all the way over, and she gives the effort a six on a scale of 10.<\/p>\n<p>A senior in child in child and family studies, Brown sees the wall as a way to \u201cput the goal-setting in perspective by actually applying it in a practical way because you have to think about where you want to go on the wall and then actually do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over on another wall, Walker attacks the task again after resting for a minute or so. To the clapping and cheers of those watching, this time he makes it all the way, slaps the top of the wall and drops down.<\/p>\n<p>His judgment on the difficulty level on a scale of one to 10? His answer is instantaneous:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c10.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"880\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:9,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/boulder-climbing-part-of-nine-week-program-to-instill-confidence-and-initiative\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:202990556}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 880px; height: 555px;\" data-original-width=\"880\" data-original-height=\"555\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 391px; height: 555px;\" data-original-width=\"391\" data-original-height=\"555\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/boulder-climbing-part-of-nine-week-program-to-instill-confidence-and-initiative\/mocs-lead-climbing-20-13\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"387\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"551\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"30269\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"842,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Mocs LEAD students practice their climbing skills Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020 in the ARC.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1580999363&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;4000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mocs LEAD Climbing-20&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2-211x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2-719x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2.jpg 842w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2-768x1095.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2-580x827.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2-610x869.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2-140x200.jpg 140w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/02\/lead2-281x400.jpg 281w\" width=\"387\" height=\"551\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"387\" data-original-height=\"551\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 387px; 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