Vacamas’ Challenge Ropes Course and Team Building Programs are designed to bring your group closer together and allow every person to discover new strengths and a greater, more positive sense of self. Participants work together on a series of activities, tapping into each person’s unique qualities to meet each activity’s challenges. The activity is completed with a group reflection on the experience, allowing them to move onto the next adventure using their new-found techniques. As they reflect on each experience, the participants learn about leadership, trust, communication and problem-solving.
The Challenge Course experience is facilitated by our trained and certified staff focusing on safety first. With 12 elements in our low ropes course and 6 elements in our high ropes course, along with dozens of games and 230 beautiful wooded acres, we can tailor our program design to your group’s special goals and needs. These programs challenge individuals to step out of their everyday routine and experience something exciting, adventurous, and life changing. Post-challenge reflections help participants process the experience and discover how they can apply their new knowledge to other situations.

Cooperative Games, Socialization Activities and Ice-Breakers

These are fun activities designed to reduce inhibitions and break down barriers, and are often based on a sequence of events instead of a defined task. Participants are encouraged to try new things that may place them outside their normal comfort zones. Examples include: : Name Game, Ball of Yarn and the Human Knot game

Trust Building Games

These activities provide participants the opportunity to demonstrate their trust in other members of the group through a series of sequenced events. Examples include: Trust Fall and Wind in the Willow and Lead the Blind exercise.

Low Ropes Course

A series of cables, ropes, and obstacles strung between trees or poles, 12 to 18 inches above the ground, low rope elements present tests of physical strength, stamina, agility, balance, and flexibility, and invite participants to confront such emotional issues as the fear of falling, the fear of failure, and the fear of losing control. Risk is managed by group members who assume critical spotting roles.

Examples include:

• Nitro Zip
• Mohawk Walk
• Horizontal Beam
• Swinging Log
• Telegraph Pole Shuffle (T.P. Shuffle)
• Whale Watch

High Ropes Course

Our high ropes course and climbing programs generally focus on personal achievements and ask participants to confront their personal fears and anxieties.

Our high ropes course and climbing programs generally focus on personal achievements and ask participants to confront their personal fears and anxieties.

Elements:
A variety of individual and/or partner challenges. Our ropes course is built outdoors on telephone poles and trees and uses climbing ropes, steel cables and wood to create challenges 25-35 feet off the ground.

Examples include:

• Crazy Ladder (Fire Cracker)
• Cat Walk
• Giants Ladder
• Flying Squirrel
• Zip Line
• Indoor Climbing Wall

For more information, or to check pricing and availability, contact our Conference Center Coordinator Tony Bentley at (973) 838-2568 or abentley@vacamas.org