Program Overview
With guidance from our skilled facilitators, students will experience a unique day of experiential training and development activities, teamwork and leadership exercises in a spectacular outdoor learning environment. Our staff work to engage all students in a fun, interactive way that will create lots of laughter and great memories.
Teen Team Building uses 3 locations and takes 1.5-2 hours to complete.
Sample of the daily schedule:
9:30am Base Arrival and Welcome
10:00am Skyride to Alpine Station
10:15am Washroom Break
10:30am – 12:30pm Teen Team Building
12:30pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 1:45pm Optional activity
To further your custom team building experience, add on 1 of the following optional activity choices ($5 per student):
1. hiwus Presentation with our First Nations Elder in our Feasthouse
2. Eco-hike or Snowshoe, depending on season and snow conditions
Educators will cover:
- Activity rules and procedures
- How to work as a group
- Stay within safe limits on a mountain environment
- Troubleshooting and problem solving
Program Objectives
- To understand effective processes for communication, and problem solving
- To examine the concepts of Collaboration vs. Competition and Time vs. Quality
- To promote understanding and appreciation of different leadership styles
- To promote positive team relationships
Highlights
- Fun, lots of laughs as students work through activities
- Involves every participant (even in large groups) in a single multi-faceted activity
- Activity is equally effective when presented in its easiest or most difficult formats
- Provides opportunities to create situations that promote interactions based on desired outcomes
- High energy level and fast pace of the activity increase the level of positive participation
- Challenging, yet low risk
- Teams are able to interact, share enormous success and celebrate as a unit
Benefits
- Better understanding of skills and abilities within the team
- Establishes personal bonds leading to decreased conflict
- Development of creative approaches to problem solving
- Enhanced communication linkages, collaboration and cooperation
SECONDARY applicable Big Ideas
- + Grade 8 Applicable Big Ideas
- + Grade 9 Applicable Big Ideas
