Breaking Bread

For thousands of years, the head of the table has broken bread to signal the commencement of a meal. Celebration, or feasting, is an important practice for high performing teams. Eating together is still regarded, across all cultures, as one of the best ways to recognise team success.

This activity explores the parallels between transforming simple ingredients (individuals) into a delicious loaf of bread (a cohesive, effective team).

Key Points

• Bread making is a tactile, physical process, requiring accuracy, energy and patience.
• The process incorporates the intense activity of kneading alongside periods of rest while the dough proves
• While the dough proves we facilitate group discussions on team work and change
• Suits groups from 6 to 60
• Typically a 3 hour activity, with the option to extend
• Our equipment is portable and so the activity can take place in a meeting room or outdoors

Activities

Activities include:

• ‘What’s my loaf?’ icebreaker
• Mixing, kneading and knocking back dough
• Facilitated discussions on topics such as transformational change, resilience and team development
• Baking, then tearing sharing and eating delicious fresh bread

Adrenaline Activities

Our Adrenaline Activities are adaptable to your group, timescale and location. We will create a programme to fit your needs for half, full-day or more.

All of our kit is mobile and most of the activities can be run at outdoor venues all over the country. The day offers the chance to try new things, get to know each other, discover hidden talents and have fun together. See the list below, or call us to find out how we can help you put on a great day.

The activities can be competitive or informal – as part of a celebration with a picnic or barbecue – or run as a series of team challenges with a winning team (and prizes for outstanding contributions!) at the end of the day.

Key Points

• Powerful reward.
• Appeals to all ages and fitness levels.
• Suits groups from 20 to 200.
• Can be sited in hotel grounds, farms or parks.
• Guaranteed to unlock laughter and make memories.

Activities

• Human table football
• Radio-controlled drones
• Quad bikes
• Off-road driving
• Blindfolded driving
• Segway riding
• Finesse driving
• Archery & crossbow target shooting
• Clay pigeon shooting
• Rock climbing and abseiling
• Falconry
• Assault course
• It’s a Knockout Challenges
• Giant Scalextric

Body Percussion / Beats Working

Get out of the office and into the groove with a high-energy drum or music workshop.

Our coaches will boost the confidence and creativity of your team and get everyone working together to produce an original piece of music within a tight timeframe. Sessions can be themed using African drums, rainbow boomwhackers or a samba fiesta. A great buzz is created from the final performance which demonstrates the power of the large group working together.

This event can literally be run anywhere, indoors or outdoors, and is a great and subtle way of getting large teams to work together and achieve a shared sense of success. It can also be tailored to your theme or outcomes.

Key Points

• Injects energy into a meeting or conference
• Encourages movement, thereby circulating blood to the brain to aid concentration
• Demonstrates the power of people working together
• Instils a sense of excitement
• Boosts confidence
• Led by former performers from ‘Stomp’ the musical

Activities

• Demonstration and tuition
• Scavenging for items which can become instruments
• Composition and performance

Sailing on the Solent

Placing your team in a challenging and unfamiliar environment helps to demonstrate the benefits of teamwork under pressure. Teams receive training in specific sailing skills on racing yachts or a traditional 70ft gaff ketch. Precise teamwork is needed for the boats to be sailed successfully. Additional challenges, followed by group feedback and evaluation, will help your team get the most from their time on the water.

Activities

Land based and sailing challenges including: Tacking the yacht, retrieve a dinghy, draw up and implement plan to hoist sails, moor alongside a buoy, evacuate a casualty from below deck.