Corporate Quest Team
Building Retreat
Itinerary Ideas
RATES
OFF SITES -
from $175/p (3 hours)
For groups of
16 or more, we can offer two or more itineraries concurrently. Prices
are based on 24 participants and include program facilitation by top-notch experienced guides and
facilitators, required materials and equipment. Rates for groups of 25-200 are on a sliding scale.
Minimum off-site fee: $3500.
INCLUSIVE RETREATS at
the EDGE - from $325/p/d
Strategy planning meets team building with an inclusive retreat at the Edge.
Rates include exclusive use of our facility, accommodation, memorable meals,
equipment, customized itinerary, meeting facilitation and more (min. $3000/d). Add a RailQuest for $195/p and get your event
started en route from Union Station (Toronto, ON)
Itinerary Elements
Corporate Event Planners
are invited to select one or more itinerary elements to be used in harmony
to compliment your event. We have many unlisted itineraries and specialize
in customization.
Team building: Fun with a
Purpose
Ice Breaking Initiatives (Year round): Break the ice with unique
games and activities that encourage participants to mix and get to know one
another. Custom-designed for your group needs, these activities can take
place indoors or out..
(1 ½-3 hours)
Wahoo! Power of the Drum (Year round): Create a community of tribal
wisdom inspired by the improvised and traditional sounds we craft using a
variety of drums, rattles musical instruments and our voices. Learn to
harmonize a diverse range of talents lurking in your organization.
(2 hours)
Evening at the Improv (Year
round): Communication, communication, communication, perhaps the three most
important and most neglected aspects of corporate health. Through
playful dynamic interactions learn simple, powerful techniques to enhance
communications skills within and between your teams.
Handspeak: Puppet Design 101
Add color and creativity to your gathering, by working in teams to design
and produce a large puppet that will be used in a creative program.
(2 hours)
Herbetisme - Natural Team Building Initiatives (Year round): Nature
provides all the challenge required and more for our exclusive team building
initiatives. Our facilitators create challenging, fun activities that
require little more than rocks, trees and the natural landscape.
Simple activities highlight the values you desire in your corporate culture.
(2-3 hours)
Kawawaymog Mystery: a nighttime orienteering adventure (Year round)
Do you have the courage to go into the dark forest at night, and meet a
variety of challenges to retrieve the bounty and return safely to the warm
firelight of the campfire? Will you do what needs to be done to ensure the
safety of your team.
(2 ½ hrs)
Earn Your Stripes: Prepare your troops for the year ahead with a bit of
basic training and a variety of enjoyable training initiatives designed to
engage your team in a memorable outdoor event. Learn to read maps,
diffuse bombs, navigate minefields and/or engage your special tactical units
in challenging exercises on this team building retreat.
(4 hours)
Reach for the Top Team Building: Climbing and/or Rapelling (Year round)
Join us at Hinsburger Lake for the thrill of a lifetime. With preparation
and education in climbing and belaying techniques, we’ll teach you how to
safely descend from this 70 foot cliff. As a team you'll conquer the
cliffs of insanity.
(3-4 hours)
Eco-Adventure Race Team Building Retreat (Year round)
Learn to use map and compass, gps, beacon detectors and more before your
team races through the wilderness: hiking, mountain biking, climbing, and
paddling or snow shoeing, rappelling, skiing and kick sledding. Learn
what it takes to have an interdependent high performing team.
(short course: 3-6 hours)
Quest for the Golden Compass (Year round)
A mix of treasure hunting, art, navigation and exploring inspires
participants to work together, sharing resources, talents and special
abilities to solve puzzles and accomplish unique team challenges. Request a
focus on any or all of: improved communication, co-operation, trust,
creativity, goal setting, and confidence building.
(4-6 hrs)
Team Building Retreat Elements:
Natural Inspiration
Night Magic (Year-round): Few natural vistas can match the
inspirational panorama of the Milky Way arching overhead in our dark sky.
Learn the constellations and their stories. If we're lucky the Northern
Lights (aurora borealis) may even put on a show on your evening team
building retreat activity.
(2 hours)
Quest for the Golden Nectar (Mar-Apr):
Join us in our Sugar Shack to tap trees, boil sap and bottle your own home
made maple syrup in a decorative bottle. Discover your untapped potential; a perfect addition to a late-winter
retreat.
(5-6 hours)
The Tom Thomson Experience: Inspiring the Artist Within (Year round)
Rekindle your creative spirit with Storytelling, Nature Excursions and art
experiences in the land of Canadian Painter Tom Thomson during your team
building retreat.
(4-5 hours)
Romance the Stone on your team building retreat (May-Oct): Gigantic inukshuks in the Canadian
Northland, Stonehenge in the British Isles and piles of stone the world over
stand testimony to the enduring connection between stone and the human
spirit. Together, we’ll create amazingly improbable balancing stone
sculptures and learn to balance the most important things in our lives.
(1 ½-2 hours)
Experience Life Enhancing Experiences to Reduce Stress
during your Team Building Retreat
Finding your Edge with Yoga (Year-round): Practicing yoga is a form
of conditioning; that can help to bring about a sense of peace in a
sometimes unbalanced world. At the lakefront, stretch your body and still
your mind, finding sanctuary from the stress of life in the city.
(1 ½ hours)
Gumboot Dancing (Year-round): Gumboot dancing is a great way to
emphasize the importance of personal accountability and build group harmony.
Master seemingly impossible dance step routines with this non-traditional
energizer.
(Three 1 hour sessions)
Tai Chi and Chai Tea (Year Round): Learn to harness the fire inside,
learning the basics this centuries-old practice from a Master teacher. On
our break we’ll enjoy the delicate sweetness of Chai Tea.
(3 hours)
The Corporate Shaman: Power of Symbols, Ceremony and Words
(Year Round) Look within on your team building retreat with guided meditation and learn how to accomplish your goals with
less effort and more joy. Learn to use three simple tools to motivate and
challenge yourself to live the life you dream.
(3-3 ½ hours)
A Labyrinth Story (Year-round): Learn about the history of the
labyrinth and work with others to design and construct a large outdoor
labyrinth that represents your organization.. Take a heroes journey, and learn to use the labyrinth for
creativity, to experience stillness and silence, to seek wisdom.
(2 1/2 hours)
Visions for the Future as part of your team
building retreat
Your Mission, Should you choose to accept it (Year Round)
Couple your experiences with a meaningful effort to define the evolving
culture of your organization. Mission, Vision, Values statements,
Action Planning, ISO Project Planning and more can be incorporated into most
experiences.
(2-4 hours)
A Journey Within- a reflective team building retreat element (Year Round)
The Shamanic Journey is one of the most remarkable visionary methods
used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly
through myth and dream. Learn to navigate the world of your dreams
using universal and near universal methods for healing and problem solving.
(1½ - 2 hours)
Eco-Tour at the Edge (Year Round)
Learn how the Edge was created in harmony with the land. Discover how solar
power, efficient appliances, an earth roof, stone and bamboo flooring,
natural landscaping and local natural building materials create a magical
natural setting at the Edge. Make Sustainability a part of your team
building retreat
(1 – 1 ½ hours)
Faces of Success- creative team building retreat element (Year round)
Creative, artistic experiences are used to explore how the unique
personalities, talents, and goals of individuals combine to create the
particular character and culture of your organization. Learn to tap into
individual passions to enhance your organization.
(2-3 hours)
Navigating a Kyoto Course: (Year Round) Greening up your organization
leads to economic prosperity. Develop Eco-Logical solutions to enhance your
business and learn how principle-based decision-making contributes to
economic, environmental and social well-being for triple-bottom line success.
(3-4 hours)
Team Building Retreat Incentive Programs:
Naturalist-led Team building retreat Experiences
Birds and Things that Fly (Year Round): Join one of Ontario’s
renowned naturalist/birders on a nature excursion in the Algonquin
Highlands.
(2-3 hours)
Fly By Night: Owl Prowl (Year Round): Our incredible naturalist
experience takes place at night! Bard Owls and Bats take center stage. . .
and in the spring the Spring Peepers invite us to join the chorus. Who knows what other mysteries await.
(2-3 hours)
Morning Tea with Moose - early morning team building retreat element (May-Aug mornings): Enjoy a silent morning
paddle sipping Algonquin teas in narrow rivers and lily-filled bays spying
on majestic moose.
(2 ½-3 hours)
The Secret Life of Plants (May-Oct): On your team building retreat learn the secrets of the
Algonquin Highlands forest, harvesting medicinal plants and wild edibles for
a cup of tea and a natural snack.
(2-3 hours)
Team Building Retreat Wolf Howl (Aug-Oct evenings)
Learn about the world of the Algonquin Park Wolf including recent research
findings on Algonquin’s most renowned resident mammal. Later gather at the
campfire for the Wolf Denning Game and conclude your evening with a group
wolf howl.
(2 ½-3 hours)
Team Building Retreat Recreation
Torch Lit Ice Skating (Jan-Feb):
Enjoy a memorable nighttime skate under the stars (includes skate rental).
(2 hours)
Norwegian Kick sledding (Jan-Mar): Kick sleds look like a dogsleds,
but are powered by the swing and kick of your leg taking you on a
self-propelled winter adventure.
(2 hours)
Hockey Night in Canada (Jan-Feb): We’ll bring out the nets, sticks
and jerseys for an old-fashioned game of shinny hockey, followed up by a
traditional hot stove session in Points North (includes skate rental). A
popular winter team building retreat element.
(2-3 hours)
Curling - slip and slide team building (Nov-Mar): Let’s have a bonspiel! We’ll provide the
equipment, instruction and motivation required so that when that next big
report is due, you’ll have the courage to inspire your team with a hearty,
“HURRY, Hurry Hard!!” to reach your goals.
(2 hours)
Paddle Dance: Introduction to Sea Kayaking or Canoeing team building
retreat on water (May-Oct)
Our introduction to paddling canoes or kayaks is filled with entertaining
games and challenges that help your group get to know one another while
learning to navigate your “Canadians” among the islands.
(2-3 hours)
Forgotten Trails Mountain Bike Quest (May-Oct): Basic instruction
prepares you for rolling hills, pine-needle covered trails and corduroy
roads on a guided journey of discovery. A mountain biking team building
retreat element.
(2 ½-3 hours)
Making Tracks - Snowshoeing (Jan–Mar)
Enjoy the quiet of winter on a walk in the forest seeking out the tracks of
wildlife or choose to snowshoe on the lake and leave tracks of a different
sort. A backcountry lunch nicely compliments this team building retreat experience.
(2-3 hours)
The Sky's the Limit (Sep-Oct): Take a scenic flight over Algonquin
Park aboard a float plane to enjoy the fall colours.
(includes ground
briefing and 30 minute flight).
Quinzhee Camping (Jan-Mar): Let us guide you on a backcountry winter
excursion, where we’ll spend the night in an overnight shelter we create out
of snow! Enjoy unbelievable food and the sights and sounds of winter close
up.
(2-3 hours)
Canoe/Kayak Excursion (May-Oct): Plan an overnight canoe trip in
Algonquin Park as a unique location for your team building retreat. Choose a Morning Tea with Moose, or Algonquin Wolf Howl
Signature Trip, or arrange a Georgian Bay Gourmet sea kayaking excursion on
Georgian Bay. Leave your cell phone and personal planner at home.
Itineraries across Canada available.
(1/2 day - multi-day itineraries)
Dog sledding at the Edge (Jan–Feb)
Mush your own team of dogs on a backcountry trail for a day. This experience
begins with instruction in the proper care and handling of your team and
sled (minimum 12 week notice required).
(5-6 hours)
