Challenge
Adventure Ropes Course: Team Synergo
Contact
Synergo directly:
http://www.teamsynergo.com/aboutus.html
Team
Synergo, a Portland based company which is arguably the
Northwest leader in challenge course design, construction,
management, and training of experiential education
facilitators, built the a world class challenge course at
EarthTeach Forest Park in 2001.
The course, set on the ground and high in the trees of the
Park, serves 500-800 youths annually. These visiting youths
are primarily from southern Oregon schools who are
including one and two day experiences at EarthTeach as part
of their student’s personal growth curriculum.
Rope challenge courses are an important tool for teaching
and facilitating in this age of synergy, team building,
experiential learning, and self-development.
Challenge courses are composed of a variety of different
elements that fit into three general categories:
orientations and team building programs, school programs
and curricula, and trust building workshops, to name a few.
The activities challenge individual and group expectations
and boundaries, and set the stage to explore the issues
surrounding them.
Challenge Course Youth Programming at EarthTeach includes:
Fun! We are serious about having fun. It is the vitality of
life.
Personal Development: Trust, Goals Setting, Self Esteem,
Overcoming personal limitations.
Team Assessment: Trust, Problem-solving skills,
Communication Skills, Productivity, Creativity, Critical
Thinking, Decision Making,
Team Development: Developing ground rules, decision-making
process, problem solving process, vision creation, trust
development.
Team Maintenance: Self Assessment, redirection.
Team Skill Building: Self-awareness, conflict resolution,
running a meeting.