• Get acquainted
• Set goals and standards for the day
• Learn the basics of Experiential Learning, Appreciative Inquiry & MTC

• Participate in activities that challenge the group to find solutions by working together
• Apply teamwork, problem-solving, core competencies, skills, and strengths to complete the activities
• Engage in hands-on learning

• Discuss the experience and the group process
• Discover the lessons learned from the activity
• Identify strengths and skills contributed by each participant

• Relate lessons to real-life situations
• Share relevant models for transferring the lessons
• Develop practical action plans for implementing and sustaining new learning

• Adaptability/Flexibility
• Boundaries
• Caring/Support
• Collaboration/Cooperation
• Conflict Management
• Creativity/Innovation
• Decision Making
• Empathy
• Feedback
• Leadership/Followership
• Motivation
• Planning/Organization
• Perseverance
• Problem Solving
• Responsibility
• Self-Awareness/Other-Awareness
• Service
• Teamwork
• Values

• Achievement Orientation
• Building Bonds/Rapport
• Change Catalyst
• Communication/Listening
• Courage/Encourage
• Critical Thinking
• Developing Others
• Influence/Persuasion
• Integrity/Honesty
• Learning
• Organizational Awareness
• Perception/Expectation
• Planning
• Respect
• Goal Setting
• Self-Control
• Sharing
• Trust
• Vision/Purpose

All Aboard

Alphanumeric Challenge

Big Foot

Blind Polygon

Blindfold Walk

The Box

Boxed Bridge

Boxed Spider

The Bridge

Bridges to Cross

Chaos Toss

Connection Walk

Digital Access

Doctor! Doctor!

The Great Escape

Lost Coin

Lost in a Cave

The Matrix Walk

Out of the Box

The Princess

Paradigm Shifter

Quicksand

Slide Over Babe

Space Launch

Speed Ball

Spider Web

Teeter Totter Bridge

Trust Vee

OBJECTIVE:   The objective is to cooperate, to support one another's ideas, to plan, to trust and be trusted, to accomplish a task within a specific time limit.

LEARNING:   During the process, participants learn what it takes to get everyone "on board".

EVENT:   The challenge is for the entire team to have both feet off the ground where the only resource they have is a 2'x2' box.

EQUIPMENT:   (1) 2ft. x 2ft. All Aboard box with disappearing rope handles

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to plan, share responsibility pay attention, listen, and develop math and language skills in the context of teamwork and experiential learning.

LEARNING:   The participants learn spelling, basic math, the alphabet, number identification, or any combination while working together.

EVENT:  The challenge requires the group to respond to the facilitators challenge as quickly as possible without breaking rules.

EQUIPMENT:  30 squares (numbered 1-30 on one side, A-Z on the other side), 75ft. rope, stopwatch, comes in one high quality carry bag

OBJECTIVE:  The object is to persevere in reaching a destination, to lead, follow, support, cooperate, and to walk together as a team.

LEARNING:  In the process of completing this event, groups go through all the Stages of Group Development and it is a wonderful opportunity to teach this.

EVENT:  Basically the group must move from point A to point B using only two beams (2 feet big

OBJECTIVE:  The objective here is to understand the importance of shared leadership, shared vision, flexibility, and listening skills.

LEARNING:  The lessons focus on leadership, planning and implementation of plans.

EVENT:  The challenge is for the group to create a polygon with a length of rope. An easy task except for the fact that they are all blind folded!

EQUIPMENT:  The challenge is for the group to create a polygon with a length of rope. An easy task except for the fact that they are all blind folded!

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to move and communicate within the imposed limits, developing trust, leadership, and followership.

LEARNING:  There is a direct and obvious life applications to the lessons learned in this activity.

EVENT:  The challenge is for a couple of leaders to lead the rest of the group from point A to point B, with obstacles in between. All participants have restrictions of some kind or another on their ability to use normal senses to accomplish the challenge.

EQUIPMENT:  15 blindfolds

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to develop team skills, communication, trust, and creative problem solving.

LEARNING:  This event requires the willingness of participants to let others move forward while they support them.

EVENT:  In this event, pairs must circumnavigate a narrow frame with only a 12ft. rope to support one another.

EQUIPMENT:  (4) 7ft. beams, 4 angle feet with screws, tools, comes in 3 high quality carry bags

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to develop team skills, support, trust, and use creative problem-solving.

LEARNING:  During debriefing, participants are challenged to identify who they turn to for support and what enables them to trust others.

EVENT:  The challenge is for the group to divide in half and cross over one another as they maneuver a narrow box.

EQUIPMENT:  (4) 7ft. aluminum beams, 4 angle feet with screws, tools, safety feet, tools, comes in 3 high quality carry bags

OBJECTIVE:   The objective is to develop short and long-range planning, teamwork, collaboration, communication, shared values, trust and shared leadership skills.

LEARNING:  Debriefing includes discussion about planning between departments, collaboration, the impact of each department on the whole, the importance of focusing, communication, and clarifying values.

EVENT:  The event challenges a large group to pass through a giant spiderweb box without touching the web. This is a complex event because the team is divided into four groups and each group starts on a different face of the web. They must move into the center and out the other side.

EQUIPMENT:  2 upgraded Spider Web stands, 4 adjustable spider webs. Comes in 2 convenient, high quality carry bags.

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to cooperate and communicate with each other to reach a common goal.

LEARNING:   Participants discover how valuable trust is to the overall ease with which they can accomplish a goal.

EVENT:  During the challenge, the team is divided in half and they must cross one another on a narrow bridge.

EQUIPMENT:   (4) 7ft. beams, 4 angle feet, 2 splice plates, 4 nubs, tools, comes in 3 convenient carry bags

OBJECTIVE:  To recognize the value of a collaborative paradigm, discover how competition leads to conflict, and the perspective that supports success for the whole.

LEARNING:  The group will learn to share resources and information so they can accomplish the task.

EVENT:  Team members have been separated by a polluted river and must create a bridge to span the river and then cross the bridge at the same time in order to help solve the pollution problem.

EQUIPMENT:  our 7 ft. beams, four splice plates, an All Aboard (or two pivot nubs and two 18”x22”mats), four 12”x12” rubber mats, drawstring bag, and set of tools from any of the MTC ropes courses plus a 20 ft. rope from the MTC conflict course.

OBJECTIVE:  The objective here is to manage in the face of chaos, to focus, stay alert, communicate and pay attention to what is important.

LEARNING:  We juggle many things in our lives: work, play, family, relationship, school. Discussion highlights how we can best mange our chaotic lives and not drop the balls that might be glass!

EVENT:  The group learns this in an activity where a number of balls are tossed around a circle in a specific pattern with the objective of getting all the balls around without dropping them.

EQUIPMENT:  25 balls, 1 spider

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to learn the value of sharing information, cooperating, listening to feedback, providing accurate directions, and following the designated leader.

LEARNING:  In this activity, participants have the opportunity to discuss who they chose to follow and why.

EVENT:   In this event, the whole group is connected with a long rope. The front 2-3 people are designated as leaders and they are given all the information. The challenge is for everyone to follow the leaders. Trouble, of course, arises when the leaders lose their ability to speak and the facilitators jump in giving alternative directions. (This never happens in life, does it?!)

EQUIPMENT:  (1) 200ft. rope, comes in one carry bag

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to plan, share, responsibility, pay attention to detail, and calmly and accurately meet a challenge under time restraints.

LEARNING:  Participants discover that mistakes made in haste cost valuable time and overall quality - a direct application to or lives.

EVENT:  The challenge is for the team to touch numbers in sequence inside a circle in the fastest time possible, without breaking any of the rules.

EQUIPMENT:  30 squares (numbered 1-30 on one side, A-Z on the other side), 75ft. rope, stopwatch, comes in one high quality carry bag

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to develop team skills, communication, trust, and use creative problem-solving skills.

LEARNING:  These lessons are directly applicable to our lives.

EVENT:  The group is challenged to find the cure for a deadly disease that they can contract upon entering the "jungle". Only the Doctor can retrieve the medicine from a poisonous flower.

EQUIPMENT:  (4) 7ft. aluminum beams, 4 angle feet with screws, handled bucket or basket with candy inside(not included), (1) 12ft. rope, tools, comes in 3 high quality carry bags.

OBJECTIVE:  work as a team, plan, problem-solve, support one another and trust.

LEARNING:  Participants learn that planning is important and trust is paramount to success, and they understand diversity in the gifts we all bring.

EVENT:  The group is challenged to escape from captivity, scaling a "fence" and they must watch out for the guards!

EQUIPMENT:  2 Spider Web stands, Great Escape boundary rope and attaching pins. Comes with the Spider Web all in one convenient carry bag.

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to use team skills, communication, trust, support, and creative problem solving.

LEARNING:  The processing leads to identifying what is important in our lives and what we do to support those aspects of our lives.

EVENT:  In this event, participants must maneuver a narrow box as a team while finding coins that are lost. With limited resources, they must retrieve the lost coins.

EQUIPMENT:  (4) 7ft. beams, 4 angle feet, (1) 12ft. rope, comes in 3 carry bags

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to develop planning and organizational skills, flexibility, leadership, and teamwork.

LEARNING:  The participants begin to understand what is important in life and the work place if they want to avoid wandering aimlessly searching for who knows what.

EVENT:  In this activity, blindfolded participants gather inside a rope. They must move like an Amoeba in search of an unidentified object.

EQUIPMENT:   75ft. rope, comes in 1 high quality carry bag

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to persevere in reaching a destination, to lead, follow, support, cooperate, and walk together as a team in a complex organization.

LEARNING:  Groups discover why teamwork in a matrix organization can be a real challenge. Discoveries are directly applicable to the work place.

EVENT:  This is similar to Big Foot, only in this event, instead of just 2 beams, there are 3 or 4 beams. Some team members walk on 1 and 2, some on 2 ans 3, and others on 3 and 4. Yet they must move forward as one team.

EQUIPMENT:  (3 or 4) 7ft. beams, 14 Big Foot sliders, 3-6 screws, tools, comes in 3 high quality carry bags

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to develop team skills, communication, trust, and creative problem solving.

LEARNING:  The lessons include examining assumptions, perseverance, and the willingness to move in order to succeed.

EVENT:  In this event, the team must move a number of radioactive coils out of the box without touching, dragging, or getting anywhere close to the coils.

EQUIPMENT:   (4) 7ft. beams, 4 angle feet, (2) 12ft. ropes, tools, comes in 3 carry bags

OBJECTIVE:  The objective here is to leave the restrictions of the paradigm for how to pass a ball and through creative and cooperative teamwork to exceed initial expectations.

LEARNING:  Processing this activity helps participants discover self imposed limits in their own lives.

EVENT:  In this activity, each participant must pass the ball using a different technique than anyone coming before them.

OBJECTIVE:  To discover how perception plays a role in conflict and to learn how to use dialogue and collaboration to move beyond conflict.

LEARNING:  The participants learn to listen to each other's viewpoints, discuss the differing opinions and come to a consensus.

EVENT:  Small groups read The Princess story and then each person must rank the characters in the story for their responsibility for the plight of the princess. There is significant information missing from the story, but each person fills in the missing data with information that fits their frame. The challenge is for the group then to come to consensus. Only then do they discover how easy it is to read, hear or see the same thing but draw very different conclusions from the information.

EQUIPMENT:  The Princess story, ranking sheets, pens.

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to utilize trust, communication, and planning to navigate a problem.

LEARNING:  Participants learn to identify the pitfalls in their lives and to gain appreciation for how to avoid those pitfalls in the future.

EVENT:  The group is challenged to cross a grid where there are three unidentified pits of quicksand. The group is blindfolded, except for a few leaders. the leaders have it easy until someone steps in quicksand; then the challenge begins!

EQUIPMENT:  (16) 18" x 18" thin rubber mats, comes in 1 high quality carry bag

OBJECTIVE:  To develop collaboration, effective communication, teamwork, and common vision in order to work without conflict.To develop collaboration, effective communication, teamwork, and common vision in order to work without conflict.

LEARNING:  The team will discover how to maximize resources and collaborate together to perform at optimal levels!

EVENT:  The team must manage four work stations involved in reviving an old gold press. They must coordinate their movements and honor one another’s style differences or court disaster!

EQUIPMENT:  Four 7ft. beams and eight pivot nubs from any of the MTC ropes courses; four gliders, eight 20 ft. ropes, and two black panels from the MTC conflict resolution course; as well as plastic cups, a bucket, and a pitcher of water or dried beans.

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to develop boundary awareness, trust, the willingness to ask for and give support, problem solving skills, and creativity.

LEARNING:  Participants discover what it takes to aim for the stars and achieve their dreams.

EVENT:  In this event, the group creates a rocket ship with bungee cord and then they must climb aboard. The challenge comes in the seating arrangements and travel plans that ensue.

EQUIPMENT:  100ft. bungee, comes in 1 high quality carry bag

OBJECTIVE:  The objective here is to elicit creativity, out-of-the-box thinking, and empowered teamwork to achieve what appears to be unachievable.

LEARNING:  In the process, participants recognize how assumptions restrict them.

EVENT:  This is done by challenging the group to maintain the sequence order they had in Chaos Toss; this time, however, they are challenged for speed. The record is unbelievably fast - and the group is challenged to beat the record!

EQUIPMENT:  1 ball

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to develop planning, problem solving, teamwork, collaboration, shared values, trust and shared leadership skills.

LEARNING:  Debriefing includes discussion about perseverance in the face of frustration and the importance of focusing attention and energy in order to succeed.

EVENT:  The event requires the entire group to pass through the giant spider web without touching the web.

EQUIPMENT:  2 spiderweb stands, adjustable spider web, comes in 1 convenient carry bag

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to develop teamwork, planning, communication, support, and problem solving.

LEARNING:  In the process, participants discover what it takes to stay balanced in their lives while moving forward.

EVENT:  The challenge requires the team to cross a bridge which is not stable, but pivots, in the center.

EQUIPMENT:  (2) 7ft. aluminum beams,2 splice plates, 4 nubs, tools, comes in 2 high quality carry bags

OBJECTIVE:  The objective is to experience and develop a deeper understanding of trust, empathetic listening, and integrity.

LEARNING:  Participants learn that trust is about give and take - as seen through the eyes of the other!

EVENT:  The challenge is for the team to cross a bridge two at a time, always staying in physical contact with their partner. The challenge is that the bridge gets wider and wider apart at the far end, eventually spanning 9 ft.

EQUIPMENT:  (4) 7ft. beams, 4 angle feet, 4 splice plates, safety feet, tools, comes in 3 carry bags