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Are you tired of traditional training days? Then why not let us run an Adventure Conference for you?
Whether your team comprises five or five hundred, an adventure conference can be designed to meet your needs.
What is an adventure conference?
Our one to three day conferences comprise a combination of formal workshop sessions and activities from simple training games to extreme activities including low and high ropes courses, kayaking, rock climbing, rappelling, laser skirmish and treasure hunts, to name but a few.
We can arrange your entire event including conference venue, accommodation, transport and social activities if required.
Adventure based training and personal development programmes are aimed at expanding participants’ mental processes.
Sessions use a combination of “hypotheticals”, discussions and activity based learning ( ABL ), which is known to improve teamwork*, when aligned to the organisational improvement desired**. This alignment allows the participants to not only know how their behaviour influences immediate team members, but also how they ultimately affect the wider organisation. ABL*** has also been shown to have a more lasting effect than traditional training alone.
Adventure based workshops and conferences demonstrate that we all need to routinely challenge ourselves in order to grow and improve our personal and organisational effectiveness.
Primary outcomes
- Improve the level of “open and honest” communication
- Increase the acceptance of team diversity
- Increase the level of commitment to teamwork
- Increase participants’ motivation and “energy”
- Increase the team’s and individual’s ability to deal with stress
- Increase the team’s ability to think outside their own paradigm
Sample Activities
The Great Escape
Major activity and personal challenge. Participants experience personal growth and teamwork by completing activities such as “High Ropes”
The Web of Intrigue
A group dynamics activity showing how all the members of the team are important to achieve goals. Toxic Waste
This is a team building activity that illustrates, via appropriate competition, how we can improve team performance through problem solving.
Lost in the Wilderness
A team-building activity where teams transport water and score points for time taken and volume retained. Following the activity is a debrief highlighting the importance of co-operation and partnerships.
Land Tobogganing
A team co-ordination and co-operation activity . This energetic activity is designed to end a session on a high note whilst demonstrating the power of team work and co-operation to achieve goals. Participants work in groups to complete a short course race wearing large wooden skis.
The Final Eggsperience.
A fun activity to bring the team together based on an egg and spoon race like you’ve never seen before!
Relaxation and Meditation
This activity is designed to commence or conclude a workshop or conference. Participants will be led through a guided meditation process.
Additional activities can include
The River of life (raft building activity)
Bush Battlefield (field based laser skirmish)
Leap of faith
Flying fox
Abseiling
Treasure hunt
Canoeing
Go-Karting
Quad bike riding
Bush camps
All activities are conducted by qualified, fully insured instructors.
*McEvoy and Buller 1996 The Power of Outdoor Management Development “Academy of Management Journal”
**Bronson 1992 Evaluation of team development “Journal of Experiential learning”
***Francis and Sumich 1995 Evaluating outdoor workshops “Academy of Management Journal” |
