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TEAM Works Programs & Activities

TEAM Works Programs

The TEAM Challenge
The building blocks of a successful team include open communication, trust and the ability to reach a common goal. Through fun and interactive activities, team members work together to develop these key skills. The TEAM Challenge can take place indoors or outdoors and is ideal for teams with a wide range of physical abilities.

The Advanced TEAM Experience
Teams build upon their foundations and further develop skills as they progress through more challenging activities such as Alpine Rescue and high adventure activities.

The Ultimate Journey
Participants must work together to reach specific destinations on a journey through a wilderness or urban landscape. Each destination will offer challenges to be completed and clues to move ahead on the journey. Teams will be given limited resources including maps, compasses and clues/instructions.

Targeted Learning Experiences
Comprehensive training is offered to pinpoint a specific area such as leadership, communication, change management, negotiation and influencing, and more. These trainings include both classroom based instruction and experiential learning. Participants have the opportunity to put their new skills into immediate use in a supportive and fun team environment.

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TEAM Works Activities

The typical group process begins with the whole group doing activities such as icebreakers and warm-ups. Larger groups are then divided into smaller groups for the team challenges. At the end of the program, the entire group will come back together to share insights on how they may apply what was experienced during the program to their everyday life.

Group Initiatives
Groups work together to complete a series of activities and challenges that develop solution-focused problem solving skills.

Alpine Rescue
While carrying a person in a rescue litter, a team must safely traverse through several challenging obstacles.

Alpine Tower
A 50-foot hourglass climbing structure with a variety of climbing challenges and unique obstacles.

Alpine Swing
An exciting combination ride of a brief free fall and swing. Participants choose the height from which they swing - 10 to 40 ft.!

Summit Course
This bi-level, 40-ft tall course offers the climber multiple challenges in the treetops, using ropes, cables, pulleys, cargo nets, poles, and more.

Summit Zip
This 35-ft zip line is high is 400-ft long, and can be zipped individually or in tandem with a friend.

Moonlight Zip
This incredibly thrilling ride is only offered after dark. In essence, it is a 300-foot zap-line which functions as a zip-line. You will run down a large hill and eventually, your feet come off the ground and you fly through the darkness over a valley, crossing a small creek in the process.

Pines Peak/Pines Zip Line
A 35-ft climbing wall with a 250-ft zip line.

Pines Pole Zip
Climb the 35-ft Pines Peak, cross a beam 35-ft above the ground, and zip down the 250-ft Pines Zip.

Moonlight Zip
A 300-ft run through the dark Missouri woods ends with feet coming off the ground and runners zipping through the sky high above the ground.

Leadership Development Course
Twenty fixed low initiatives with challenges designed to fosters skills such as communication, team work, trust and leadership.

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MARCH 20, 2010

REGISTER NOW For Camp Lakewood 2010!

Camp Director Jon Evans and Camp Program Director Brad Smith will be visiting branches of the YMCA of Greater St. Louis throughout the Winter and Spring of 2010.

Meet Jon at the Kirkwood Family YMCA on Saturday, March 20th from 8:30 - 11:00 a.m. He'll answer your family's camp questions, help you register for camp, and help you decide which ... Learn more