Retreating & Conferencing | Services Offered

updated January 11, 2008

Equipment and Activities:

Program Options:

High Ropes Challenge Course

2 hours minimum

The High Ropes Course consists of  challenging, professionally constructed elements suspended in white pine trees at heights of twenty five feet or more. A tour of the course allows participants to set goals for themselves.

Trained facilitators instruct all participants on proper use of standard safety equipment, and supervise all climbing.

Age: 10+ (grade 5)

Initiative Games

Initiative games are games with a purpose. They are the beginning stage of the Team Challenge program and are aimed at providing opportunities for the participants to have fun together as a group, acquaint group members with each other, introduce team work, encourage positive communication, and promote problem-solving principles.

Team Challenge/Low Ropes

Team Challenge consists of strategically designed problems presented to a small group of people, The entire group must work together using problem solving skills in order to complete the task. The problems are presented in a sequence beginning with ice breakers and initiatives, then building towards trust activities and increasingly more difficult tasks. Guarding one another's safety is a key component in the process

Team challenges may or may not include time in one of the three low ropes courses, which are located in beautiful forest settings.

Available focus topics include:

Team Building
Leadership Training
Communication
Problem Solving
Lessons from Scripture

 

Retreating Activity cost estimator

Activity	Number of guests	Number of staff needed
Climbing	8-19	3 x $17.50 x _______hours
	20-26	4 x $17.50 x _______hours
	27-39	5 x $17.50 x _______ hours

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