Ihduhapi Team Building
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One of the Minneapolis YMCA Camps greatest resources is our Team Building Center. Utilizing the facilities of Ihduhapi’s popular ropes course, the Minneapolis YMCA Team Building Center offers participants from groups of all ages and abilities the unique opportunity to grow by challenging themselves in a fun, positive environment with the support of their peers.
Groups ranging in size from 8 to 150 come to the Minneapolis YMCA Team Building Center year-round. For businesses looking to bring a team together, schools wanting to take the learning experience outdoors, or spiritual groups interested in bringing a new dimension to their teachings, our staff will work to design a Team Building Program to fit your needs. For bookings, call us at 763-479-1146 or e-mail us.
TEAM BUILDING PROGRAMS
The Team Building Center offers a wide range of activities and programs to help groups work toward achieving their teambuilding objectives. Our programs combine Low Initiatives and Climbing Challenges in programs of varying length. For business organizations, the Adventure Hunt adds a fun, competitive element to the team-building day.
Whether yours is a business group, school or spiritual organization, let us help you design a program that will challenge your group and bring them together in exciting new ways. Call us at 763-479-1146 or
e-mail us.
Low Initiatives
*These events take one (1) to three (3) hours to complete
Low Initiatives are fun collaborative challenges that have been selected to support the goals of the group. In working together to solve these challenges, groups find themselves testing their familiar methods of communication, responsibility, cooperation, trust, risk-taking and creative problem-solving. After each Initiative, discussions led by skilled Ihduhapi facilitators help groups reflect on their experiences and develop a plan to apply what they learn to other challenges they face.
Climbing Challenges
*Each event takes approximately three (3) hours to complete
The second feature of the Team Building Program is a Climbing Challenge. Participants wear safety harnesses to take on the opportunity of challenging themselves by climbing one of Ihduhapi’s high-ropes events. From this new perspective members of your group can find themselves adapting to meet challenges in ways they never thought possible. This becomes a powerful and inspiring tool for tapping into one’s own undiscovered potential. In participating in a Climbing Challenge, as in working at Low Initiatives, team support provides the framework for individual success. The climbing events on Ihduhapi’s ropes course present different challenges with different objectives:
High Ropes Circuit Courses (2)
Expanding your comfort zone with the support of your group. Participants will move from platforms stationed 30-35 feet up on poles, using ropes and cables for balance. From the time they leave the ground, they are harnessed and secured to safety equipment that insures a safe journey from platform to platform. The course ends with an exciting ride down the zip line!
Climbing Towers/Wall (2)
Team building and ground support. A 40-foot tower provides the arena for participants to develop teamwork by climbing with a partner or partners. Participants go as far as they can while connected to their partner(s) by 3 feet of rope.
Leap of Faith (2)
Individual risk taking with support of the group. Participants have the opportunity to climb a 30-foot pole, balance at the top, turn around and leap off. They are lowered to the ground by their safety systems. Participants learn to stop and challenge themselves, to make conscious decisions to take risks, and to reach beyond their preconceived abilities.
Giant’s Ladder (1)
This event focuses on cooperation, problem solving, support and trust. The rungs of the ladder are 8 feet wide and provide an extra challenge the higher the participants climb. Participants climb in pairs and are connected to each other by a length of webbing. Each climber must cooperate, support, and trust their partner and the belay support from the rest of the group.
Commitment Bridge (2)
A challenging event for two people focusing on commitment, support, and trust. Two participants climb 25 feet up a ladder and then out on a V-shaped cable using only each other for support. The pair travels as far as they can while the cables get further apart. This is an excellent partnering and communication event.
High Y’s (2)
An event similar to the High V’s focusing on commitment, support, trust, and discovery. Two participants climb separate poles 25 feet high and work their way out to each other on individual cables. Once they reach each other, they now have the opportunity to walk together on one cable to reach the third pole that forms the “Y”.
Giant Zip Line (1)
Individual risk taking with group support and encouragement. Participants climb a 40-foot ladder and then have the opportunity to take the “leap” down a 250-foot zip line. Participants learn to challenge themselves, reach past their own comfort zone and see past their limitations and expand their horizons.
Adventure Hunt
For corporate teams, the Adventure Hunt is a program designed specifically for each group which builds on the challenges unique to a competitive business environment. A high-energy, highly motivated part of the teambuilding day, the Adventure Hunt is an outdoor scavenger hunt which asks participants to use maps and clues to find different points around camp, then culminates in an obstacle course. Combined with a program of Low Initiatives and a Climbing Challenge, the Adventure Hunt brings out the best in its participants.
PRICES
The cost of a program varies depending on the group size, the activities selected, the facilities of the camp utilized by the group and meals provided. Call us at 763-479-1146 or
e-mail us for more information.
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