Team Building

Team Building & Personal Growth
Through the Challenge Course Experience

Team Building takes time and intentional effort to bring about lasting results. Issues of trust, respect, and communication need to be continuously examined for teams to function at their peak level. Understanding, mutual appreciation, problem-solving, and conflict resolution play a critical role in helping individuals function as team members working together toward a common mission.

A Challenge Course experience combines an appropriate amount of group and individual challenge elements that create a context for individuals to bond as a cohesive, supportive team. Through careful debriefing following each exercise, team members will gain greater empathy, mutual respect, trust, and enhanced communication. All of these foundational qualities play a critical role in helping teams reach their potential.

Warm Beach Camp's high ropes and initiatives course is an outstanding tool for building team unity and helping people learn to overcome obstacles in their lives.

Seattle Christian Schools

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Team-Building Intitiatives and Low Ropes Course

Groups work together through carefully selected scenarios and challenges followed by a debriefing following each session. Field initiatives and low ropes elements are customized by the facilitator based on the unique needs and goals of the group. This time of experiential learning will cause:

• Emergence of individual strengths and roles
• Building of trust and confidence
• Creation of team/group unity

High Ropes Course and Climbing Tower

The 25-foot suspended High Ropes Course challenges team members to overcome the fear of perceived risk in a totally safe and highly supervised setting. Sometimes groups need to take their challenge to the next level, literally over 20 feet in the air. A high ropes course brings participants out of their comfort zone and many times beyond what they thought could be accomplished.

The 40-foot Climbing Tower challenges individuals to push harder and go higher than they may think possible. With the support of the whole team, climbers can overcome obstacles they may never attempt on their own. Climbers are harnessed into a rope belay system carefully tended to by trained staff members.

These elements are specifically designed to:

• Increase individual strength and confidence
• Realize the value of team support and encouragement
• Encourage trust and team bonding
• Move team members out of their comfort zone
• Achieve more as individuals and a group than ever thought possible

Ideal for:

• Corporate and Non-Profit Work Groups
• Public Safety Teams such as law enforcement, fire fighters, search & rescue, etc.
• Mission Teams
• Youth Groups
• Drug & Alcohol Recovery Groups
• Newly formed teams
• Teams with new members
• Teams who have worked together for a while

The combination of elements that a group may experience depends upon the goals and needs of the group. Ahead of the group's arrival, the leader will be contacted by their facilitator for clarification of the desired outcome and expectations for the experience. The amount of time spent on each of the elements will be based on each group's unique needs. Care is taken to insure that each group's goals can be reached through the experiences provided.

The Challenge Course at WBC builds teamwork, cooperation and trust. It really strengthens a group. Not until you try to solve a problem do you discover people's roles. Every time a group comes, we see growth.

Joe Wiederhold

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Prices

In addition to any desired lodging and meal packages, Challenge Course experiences are at the following per person rates:

	Half Day	Full Day
Non-Profit	$34	$54
Corporate	$69	$109

For more information or to make a reservation, contact Guest Services at 360-652-7575 or submit an event inquiry.

Recreation Waiver.pdf - completed form needed to participate in Team Building Initiatives and Challenge Course
Group Needs Assessment form.pdf - to be completed at least 2 weeks prior to scheduled visit