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TEAM BUILDING PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS & EDUCATORS

(262) 248-9271 • LakeGenevaCanopyTours.comN3232 County Rd. H • Lake Geneva, WI 53147

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BENEFITS FOR YOUR GROUP

WHAT YOUR GROUP CAN EXPECT

Lake Geneva Canopy Tours’ Team Building programs for schools (students or faculty/staff) offer customized initiatives (ground based problem-solving challenges) and low ropes elements (physical challenges that are off of the ground but only slightly so) that combine hands-on learning with fun and unique physical challenges.

Want even more out of your program? We offer high ropes experiences, canopy tours, hiking and mountain biking trails and a racing zip-line as options to expand your team building experience.

CUSTOMIZED PROGRAMSTo make each experience as powerful, engaging and transferable as possible, we work with you to determine specific learning outcome goals for your group’s program and then take the time to explore which activities will work best to achieve these goals. This process is supported during your program by facilitated discussions to cultivate insights, help your group strategize, create action plans, overcome failures and celebrate successes. The result is a unique schedule of activities for each group and an experience that is focused on fulfilling your goals.

• Strengthen inter-personal relationships

• Create a more collaborative learning environment

• Learn and practice collaboration skills

• Practice strategic thinking and taking action under adverse conditions

• Improved leadership, communication, goal setting and problem-solving skills

Participants experience a series of highly interactive challenges that call upon group members to plan, set goals, create action plans, make collaborative decisions and perform within time constraints and other challenge inducing guidelines.

Approximately 70% of program time is spent engaged in physical activities and 30% on planning and reflection. Discussions further strengthen and reinforce newly learned or enhanced skill and provide key insights that are transferable to school and home.

To create your customized Team Building program, contact us at 262-248-9271.

TEAM BUILDINGFOR STUDENTS & EDUCATOR S

E X P E R I E N C E T HE A D V E N T U R E

R AT E S

HALF DAY TEAM BUILDING $19.5O

TEAM BUILDING + HIGH ROPES $55.OO

TEAM BUILDING + RACING ZIP $45.OO

TEAM BUILDING + CANOPY TOUR $9O.OO

S C HE D U L I N G Y O U R PR O G R A M

Team Building programs are available Monday through Friday* for half day or full day sessions:

• Half day programs are 3 hours in length

• Full day programs are 5-6 hours in length

• A same-day Arbor Trails Pass (13 miles of hiking trail options) is included

with each Team Building reservation

WE SERVE A WIDE RANGE OF GROUPS: Team Building programs can be designed for students age 7 and older**. Programs are planned to meet the learning characteristics and social development stage specific to the grade level/age of group members.

• MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS Student organizations/government, new student orientations, peer-mentor programs, sports teams

• UNIVERSITY STUDENT PROGRAMS Student organizations/student life programs, R.A. staff trainings, courses that stress small group projects or preparation for workplace collaborations

* Interested in a Team Building program on a Saturday or Sunday? Please call (262) 248-9271 to check availability.

** Certain elements have height/weight limits.

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MAKE YOUR EXPERIENCE EVEN BIGGER Include a high ropes course, canopy tour or racing zip line option to your team building program.

• Youth under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult chaperone — 1 adult per 12 youth for Team Building or High Ropes, 1 adult per 7 youth for the Canopy Tour or Zip Line.

• Students are required to weigh between 65 lbs. and 250 lbs. to participate in

the Racing Zip, Canopy Tour or High Ropes Course and be a minimum of 4’ for the High Ropes Course.

• A minimum of nine (9) participants are required for a Team Building program

for billing purposes.

B O O K N OW

THE PRINCIPLES OF EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION PRACTICE:

• Experiential learning occurs when carefully chosen experiences are supported by reflection, critical analysis and synthesis.

• Experiences are structured to require the learner to take initiative, make decisions and be accountable for results.

• Throughout the experiential learning process, the learner is actively engaged in posing questions, investigating, experimenting, being curious, solving problems, assuming responsibility, being creative and constructing meaning.

• Learners are engaged intellectually, emotionally, socially, soulfully and/or physically. This involvement produces a perception that the learning task is authentic.

• The results of the learning are personal and form the basis for future experience and learning.

• Relationships are developed and nurtured: learner to self, learner to others and learner to the world at large.

• The educator and learner may experience success, failure, adventure, risk-taking and uncertainty, because the outcomes of experience cannot totally be predicted.

• The educator recognizes and encourages spontaneous opportunities for learning.

• The design of the learning experience includes the possibility to learn from natural consequences, mistakes and successes.

Association for Experiential Education - www.aee.org

WHAT IS EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION?

C H A L L E N G E A N D E X P E R I E N C E F O L L O W E D B Y

R E F L E C T I O N L E A D I N G TO L E A R N I N G A N D G R OW T H

Experiential education is a philosophy that informs many methodologies in which educators purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills, clarify values and develop people’s capacity to contribute to their communities. 

ERIC HOWDEN, TEAM BUILDING COORDINATOR Eric has spent 20 years leading outdoor adventure education and recreation as a guide, instructor and program administrator and has earned a Master’s degree in Recreation Administration with an emphasis in Outdoor Pursuits from Aurora University. Eric has directed several outdoor education programs that specialize in team building and using high ropes courses to help groups and individuals expand their capacity to confront challenges and build interpersonal relationships. He holds Challenge Course Manager and Level 2 Facilitator certifications from the Association for Experiential Education.

M E E T Y O U R C O O R D I N ATO R

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