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"HOW TO BUILD A HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAM IN ONLY ONE WEEK" (Adrenaline version) - 7 days - 7 nights - 6 outstanding adventures - 6 important lessons - More than a dozen tools and techniques - Expert animation and facilitation - The first day begins at 07:00 and participants must already be briefed for their 1st adventure As participants arrive from everywhere, days before the 1st Training Day are called "staging days". One and sometimes two or three staging days can be required to assemble larger groups so participants gather in a comfortable Inn near the Airport. When a team is gathered we begin with bienvenidos, introductions and a few "lessons from the jungle..." |
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Training Day 1 |
Adventure : Whitewater Rafting Expedition |
Learning theme : "Seeing together" -A «Lesson from the jungle…» to explain how perception is limited by personal neurology, and what we can do about it. |
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Adventure : Poas Volcano Trek,Drive to Coast and "Skywalk" |
Training theme : "Outstanding Teams From Creative Self-Management" - Team-building exercise : «Lost in the Jungle» and seminar at the Lodge: Creativity and subjective limits…our personal paradigms - and what to do about it. |
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Adventure : Mountain Bike Rally |
Training theme : "Brain/Mind And Inner Maps & Outer Expectations" - Team building exercise followed by a «Lesson fron the jungle… and discussion on: The need for creative intelligence and innovation- and what to do about it. |
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Adventure : Climb Jungle Canopy |
Training theme: "Individuals, Groups And Teams" - Team building exercize back at the Lodge, and « Lesson from the jungle…» answers why Nature insists on self-motivated creativity - and what to do about it. |
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Adventure : Beach Bar-B-Q and "Treasure Hunt" |
Training theme : "Self-Empowerment In Personal And Professional Life" - A team-building serie of discoveries via a Treasure Hunt at Gold and White Beaches. Meanwhile, back at the lodge, a late night lesson from the jungle… Why Nature favors personal power and empowerment - and what to do about it. |
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Adventure : Hike to Waterfall in a Mystic Cloudforest and Celebration Dinner on a Mountaintop |
Training theme: "Rising To All Occasions... The High Performance Team" - A team building test : Examine Nature's slant on self-management and self-actualization in the context of a high performance team. And then draw up a strategic action plan. |
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Transfer to Airport |
Theme : "Power Walk" And Power Talk" - Then....stop for souvenirs and Costa Rican coffee before you board for the flight home, or at one of numerous hotels from where you can extend your stay. |
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Get ready to get wet! At first light, we'll you drive down the mountains through the impressive Braulio Carrillo National Park - an amazing rainforest of giant trees and waterfalls - across the «Continental Divide» on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica. The formula is [rainforest waterfalls + downward slopes = streams converging into rivers = the fastest and best 10 miles of Class III rapids you'll ever paddle!] First-timers and experienced pros looking for big waves, hydraulics and stunning scenery with awe inspiring beauty are in for the trip of a lifetime. There'll be hot showers at journey's end and you'll be back at the Hotel for cocktails - and a "liar's" contest on the biggest, the baddest and the wettest…. After dinner, Lawrence will relate a powerful «Lesson from the jungle…» to explain how perception is limited by personal neurology, and what we can do about it. Group intructions - ice breakers. An overview of the week and its objectives. A few rules of the jungle and a bit of advice intended to make this a great experience and an outstanding 7 days. --------------------- |
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You'll be taken to the Poas Volcano National Park by air-conditioned Coaster to learn about the 2 sides of one of the key ingredients in building teams: Real Communication. Trek the amazing cloudforest wonderland and caze directly into a live crater and climb to another filled with the primordial soup. After lunch, in coffee country, hear how those craters are symbols in a creation myth. Then move to a comfortable Jungle Lodge tucked against the Carara Biological Reserve in Costa Rica's Central Pacific zone. Following a breathtaking drive down the mountains from the Central Valley, you might want to freshen up in your spacious room, in this secluded enclave. Take a swim in the pool, explore the lush tropical gardens or the jungle paths just beyond, At day's end you'll take a suset "Skywalk" in the jungle and then Suzy and Lawrence will facilitate a learning exercise called "Lost in the jungle" after supper. It will demonstrate the effects of "perception" on team dynamics and will illustrate the premise of the tonight's after-dinner conference - that we live in a world of paradigms. --------------------- |
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Today, you're off on a great adventure. Divided in competing but complementary project teams, you'll explore a beautiful rural region of Costa Rica, its flora and its fauna, during a bicycle rally. Hunter-gatherers, you'll be out looking for signs of intelligent life and for innovative ideas. There will be unknown territory, a sacred quest, various tasks, lists, language barriers, dangers, opportunities… and all that great stuff. In the late afternoon - in the gardens by the pool - recap meetings and a team-building tool called "breakthrough creativity". --------------------- |
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You'll divide into problem solving units to climb into the canopy - the penthouse where 70% of jungle life exists. A naturalist-guide will explain the great biodiversity and the importance of life above "the fray". To participate in this activity, the adventure-guides will explain how to climb up to a first platform, high in a giant tree, strapped in a harness, to then zip through the treetops along cables to other platforms and so on, across the forest. The traning-guides will have explained how to reach 4 kinds of courage. This day, individual groups will sneak off to swing from trees during a "plenary" at the Lodge. In spirited discussions, you'll discover everything we need to know about personal and organizational needs and find out where motivated creativity fits into the overall plan. The "climbteams" will have prepared a skit for a "dinner show" on the pitfalls of self-management. --------------------- |
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A 700 acre tropical beach resort - where the jungle meets the sea - invites us to use their spacious facilities, meeting rooms, white and gold sand beaches, turquoise waters, swimming pools, jacuzzis, tennis courts, water sports and much, much more, so we do some serious work. Big teams, little teams, flexi-teams, mixed teams, instant teams, high-performance teams --- you'll explore the details and the "best practices". Participants will have the run of the resort &endash; before during and after a Beach Bar-B-Q &endash; and they will actively involved in a most unusual "treasure hunt". They look for visions of ideal and TQL (total quality life) and barriers. It'll all make sense when it's detailed, but in the meantime imagine finding the key to personal power. Tonight, back to the lodge, we'll hear an amazing story about a powerful idea. --------------------- |
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At an outstanding 650 feet, discover the tallest waterfall in Costa Rica; it will require a 5km hike up a moutain, along a wide, steep, dirt lane to the cloudforest home of Quetzals, Toucans, Blue Motmots and many other unusual species. This level 3-4 hike, will expose you to some of the most spectacular scenes imaginable, as you'll be hundreds of meters high, overlooking mountains, valleys, jungles, with breathtaking oceanviews. On your rather arduous trek up the moutain to the waterfall, you will carry a backpack full of symbols gathered over the week and representing limits to your wellbeing, your personal power and your optimum contribution to the team. Once at the forest entrance, you'll need team work to get down a very steep &endash; and rather dangerous &endash; 15 minute long footpath. Bring your swimming trunks as the cascada has 10 very inviting natural pools. It'll be much easier coming back down. Back in the gardens immediately after lunch, you'll contribute to an an action plan. Later, you'll prepare a skit on what you've learned for the "before dinner show". At sunset, in a spectacular amphitheatre atop a mountain overlooking the Pacific, Lawrence will tell a Central American myth that reveals on how the creating spirit in Nature sees human potential, and then the group will perform El Teatro Allegrio. Then celebrate the week's team-building adventure with fine dining in an absolutely magical locale. --------------------- |
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Power walk, Breakfast and Power talk : The recapitulation Suzy will lead an early morning "power walk", Lawrence will recap what you've learned through all experiences and classes at "a power breakfast". Then you may want a last dip in the pool or stroll through the gardens. Only time left to pack our bags, before boarding the Coaster for the 90-minute winding drive up from the coast to the Central Valley. You'll stop for souvenirs and Costa Rican coffee before being deposited at the Airport for your flight home, or at one of numerous hotels from where you can extend your stay. --------------------- |
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