Team Building
STRENGTHEN YOUR CONNECTIONS
Enhance Your Overall Team Experience
Our team building and leadership development activites develop a deeper understanding of how others communicate and collaborate, and help individuals adapt their communication styles to build stronger connections. Facilitated activities give participants opportunities to practice these skills and apply new insights. By strengthening self-awareness and understanding team dynamics, individuals and teams can reduce frustration, work more effectively together, and foster a more collaborative workplace.
1 – 2 hours
ICEBREAKERS
These introductory games begin to break down barriers, set norms for the retreat space, and create opportunity for team bonding.
2 – 8 hours
LOW ROPES ACTIVITES
Teams work together to solve problems through a variety of engaging challenges designed to strengthen culture, improve communication, and support your team’s unique objectives. Along the way, individuals and the team as a whole have opportunities to grow, developing practical skills they can apply at work and in everyday life.
3 – 8 hours
HIGH ROPES COURSE
Many of our corporate retreats use the High Ropes Course to provide a safe environment for groups to experience exciting team challenges and to discover unknown capabilities. With qualified and seasoned facilitators, teams work through obstacles 20 to 30 feet above the ground. Unforgettable experiences in commitment, effective risk-taking, and group support help expand personal limits, create self-confidence and build deep trust within the team.
3 hours to 1 day
ORIENTEERING
Clear goals and effective communication are hallmarks of highly successful people and organizations. Guided by a trained facilitator, your team will use topographical maps and compasses to navigate the forests and meadows of The Nature Place. Along the way, participants practice collaboration, strengthen leadership skills, and work toward a shared goal. This orienteering experience can be paired with Insights Discovery exercises, combined with other team and leadership challenges, or designed as a friendly competition.
4 - 8 hours
ROCK CLIMBING AND RAPPELLING
With expert instruction and technical climbing gear, rock climbing and rappelling is an enormously rewarding personal and team experience to share with your group n. We have several wonderful natural climbing and rappelling sites on the property, all with amazing views.
4 hours
CHANGE & TRANSITION HIKE
Creating organizational change is a leadership skill; it is the means of transforming a leader’s vision of the future into concrete reality. It requires the skills of guiding an organization and its individuals through a process of adapting to the change: a process known as transition. This course carried out on a hike teaches a well-researched model and uses practical, useful tools that will reduce resistance from others, and increase the speed of the transition.
2 - 8 hours
ETHICS AND VALUES WORKSHOP
To attract and hold onto a creative staff and to have sustainable growth, an organization needs goals that go beyond salaries and benefits. Shared values are what define who we are now and what we strive to become. Your clearly expressed ethics & values motivate people to move in the same direction. This program is designed to clarify personal and organizational values, leading to better ethical decision making and mission alignment.
