Get more out of your team through experiential outdoor activities.

Go on a journey of discovery together with your team to get to know the qualities of each other and yourself better, in order to achieve a better functioning team. Through adventurous outdoor activities, you and your team are invited to get out of your comfort zone in order to give an impulse to personal and group development.

Each activity has its own specific characteristics and appeals to the qualities and characteristics of the participants. For each activity there is a link to practice.

Prior to the day (or part of the day), the themes of the group will be discussed so that the program can be tailor-made.

Possible themes are:

• Getting to know each other
• To collaborate
• Make use of each other’s talents
• Leadership
• Problem solving
• Contradictions/conflicts
• Dealing with changes
• Give and receive feedback
• Communication
• Decision making
• Trust/safety

These themes are hidden in the program in a fun, relaxed way, making it not only a fun but also educational day. During the activities (‘dynamics’), your own behavior emerges naturally and is viewed from different perspectives. The feedback given by the participants and facilitator makes it clear where the participants and the team can develop. Behavioral patterns are experienced and made visible.

Many different activities are possible. Below is a small selection of the options:

• Let’s connect (a team building assignment)
• Beams puzzle
• Keep the ball high (cooperative game)
• Volcanoes game
• Pentagram (trust game)
• Mega stand up paddle boarding (SUP) for 7 people
• Build smoothly
• On a journey of discovery through nature
• River crossing
• Transport of gold pieces
• Adventure with map and compass
• Cross-country skiing
• Lego cooperative games
• Shooting a bow and arrow
• Create a team experience map
• Orienteering (individually or in teams – who makes the most strategic choices?)
• Making mosaics together

For teams that are familiar with Insights Discovery, IPU or DISC, it is also possible to link more targeted activities to this, so that the (theoretical) profile that the participants have also becomes visible and open to discussion in practice.