Category:
outdoor team building with can do focus and extreme elements
Planned duration: 1- 2 days
Maximal team size: 2000 persons
Goals of program:
- recreation
- ‘adrenalin shot’
- coping with new challenges
- common experience
- being pleasantly tired
- finding own boundaries
Who to recommend:
To teams who:
- like challenges
- would like to relax with a lot of experience
- like challenging own limits
- desire deep common memories
- want to broaden physical/psychical boundaries in challenging and even so safe environment
The common goal of participants is to find the hidden treasure, and to be able to open the treasure chest with the keys they have gained. They have to succeed in various challenges (creative problem solving, skill tasks, and logic riddles). In the course of several shorter exercises participants wander from station to station.
In the first part of the program’s architecture smaller units cope with challenges. Later on cooperation of two-two teams and at last all participants’ common effort bears treasure.
Some of the possible exercises to pick from:
The Mohican Bridge – The whole group must safely navigate across a wire bridge to escape from the savage tribesmen. Team members have to catch hold of each other to cross the ‘swamp’ and this physical aspect of the exercise subconsciously reinforces team feeling.
Laser field –The team have to get through a laser-beam-protected area. The radiation is so strong, that you have to wear eye-protective blindfolds to avoid serious damage. The only way to solve the problem is to precisely follow the instructions of the fellows outside the field.
Swamp –The deadly swamp is in front of you, equipment to get through of it alike. The only problem is that you have much less time than the amount of necessary creativity to get across, and get your key.
Pole rising –You want to erect the pole with the team’s flag at a place, where no other company can have its own. Where is it? On Saturn? It is a bit closer, on a rock, surrounded with blazing lava. Nobody can ford it alive! But you can’t get the key if you don’t set your flag.
Traffic jam – Rush – hour. The more vehicles there are the more complicated the traffic rules become. If you can’t think logically in this strait, you won’t ever get to the treasure – box.
Flying over alligators – There is a river packed with hungry alligators. Bad enough, your team stuck on a tiny island, with a rope hung from a high branch some three or four meters away, towards the shore. Will you be able to reach the bank without losing a leg or some even more precious part of the body?
See-saw– Working in silence, the group must find a way on and then off balance without either end of the see-saw touching the ground. Good communication in the preparation phase and strong teamwork in the implementation are the keys to success in this exercise.
Team radar – Getting from a starting point to a place with a key, which is not further than some two hundred meters is not too challenging. Doing the same blindfolded is impossible. Unless the teams together -effectively communicating- work out a strategy, how to scout and map each other’s territory…
Escape from the Nest of giant Spider – There is a malicious giant spider in the forest hunting for participants. You have to get across its web without the slightest touching of it for a key.
As a taste we picked these exercises but in finalizing the program a lot of other possibilities may arise.