Corporate Training Programs

Upon booking with us, you will receive a questionnaire about your team’s history. You will also receive a personal pre-event assessment for each of your team-members to fill out and use as a personal tool to enhance their experience during the program. Jennifer will review the information from the questionnaire to determine how to create a customized challenge course experience for your group. 

When you arrive at the challenge course for your event, you will be met by Jennifer, who will give a brief orientation before starting the program. Please be on time as we only have the course reserved for your group’s program and cannot extend the time if you are late. If you are late, you will not receive the full benefit of the program Jennifer has created for you. Your program will begin with an introduction to the 4 Foundation Pillars of Successful Team Philosophy Jennifer developed during her years in the corporate world – namely, Communication, Community, Collaboration, and Responsibility.  Your group will then move forward with a few warm up Initiative/Ice Breaker Games. These games are fun, cooperative, and challenging. Initiative games are not designed to be competitive or to be a race against time. Initiative Games emphasize the more important objectives of community, communication, collaboration, and responsibility.

The next phase of the program involves the Low Challenge Course. The Low Challenge Course  takes place on elements a few feet off the ground and might involve spotters to ensure the safety of individuals. These activities promote learning through hands-on experiences. 

Following the Low Challenge Course is the High Challenge Course. The High Challenge Course activities require participants to wear a helmet and harness as they will be “On Belay” approximately 30′-60′ in the air. With their team’s support, each participant will have a personal experience facing the challenge that invokes the fear response. We use this “fear” experience to help participants understand that fear is something they have control over when facing life challenges. Some potential outcomes are an increase in self-confidence, trust and the realization of the need to rely on others for support – therefore encouraging Community.         

A Debriefing/Reflection: Jennifer, or one of her assistants, will ensure a thought provoking, safe discussion by asking meaningful questions. The purpose of the debriefing/reflection is to capture meaning and discuss the experience. This is an opportunity to reflect on the experience by identifying and sharing what we learned about ourselves and others. Participants discover meaningful connections between the activity and their own lives, thus increasing the learning. Intended outcomes include an increase in communication between team members, a sense of community, understanding the benefits of collaboration, and developing a sense of responsibility to the team. 

Another aspect of the program is the emphasis on Challenge By Choice and Full Value Contract. 

Challenge by Choice means that everyone is invited to participate voluntarily in activities and challenges of the program. A participant may choose to sit out , or only do as much as they are comfortable within an activity and this right is to be respected by others of their group.

Full Value Contract: A ropes course experience requires participants to be involved in perceived physical, emotional and social risks. It is
vital that a supportive group atmosphere is developed and that basic, agreed principles of engagement are shared by the group. A Full Value contract is a verbal mutual contract between the leaders and group members and the facilitators that expresses how the group will operate while moving toward its goals. The idea of a “Full Value Contract” is to have a contract that “fully values” each member of the group.: