Fresh Ideas Company

Eco-Teambuilding

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Team building with a natural twist

We offer fresh outdoor themed team building programs tailored to any budget, need, or time constraint. We deliver exciting, challenging, and thought provoking experiences that promote unity amongst team members.
We are located in the Timucuan Preserve encompassing 46,000 acres of natural preserve, just 15 minutes from down town Jacksonville and 10 minutes from Amelia Island. With endless waterways, sandy beaches, hiking and biking trails the Timucuan Preserve is perfectly suited to adventurous experiences. Our specialty is kayaking, yet our pro- grams are designed to fit your team, so adventure activities could include bikes, trail hikes, stand up paddle boards, or an across land geo-cache scavenger hunt. Lets create the perfect experience for your team!
The natural environment is a perfect platform, helping to conceptualize the harmony and mutual aide that occurs in a thriving ecosystem. Mutually beneficial relationships that occur in the natural world model the synchronization it takes to have a thriving organization. Much like the corporate environment, the natural environment is interdepend- ent, each element relying on the productivity of the other to survive and thrive.
KA programs are designed to create a sense of interdependence, trust, and mutual respect amongst teammates. Our goal is for your team to practice rotating leadership, the ability to ask for help, and the willingness to leave one's ego at the starting line.

 

Get out of the office!

All to often team-building is done on Wednesday morning in conference room A. Natural environments provide opportunities for group bonding in a new ‘exotic’ environment. It is well known that stress causes a variety of emotional and physical difficulties as well as decreased job performance. Over one hundred studies show that stress reduction is a key benefit of wilderness recreation. Adding on a shared challenge increases social support and develops camaraderie. What makes this more than just a day away from the office, are the facilitators who closely monitor activities and offer assessment and feedback to your staff.

 

Sample Programs

 

Adventure Race

is designed for teams that would like a competitive edge with team-building challenges throughout the event. Groups are separated into teams and given maps, navigation devices, survival packs. The race begins on foot, bike, stand up paddle board,or kayak depending where the group starts and the location chosen. Individual teams must navigate around islands finding hidden caches. In each cache there is a timed team challenge that must be completed to move on in order complete the race. The day ends with a group challenge and a debriefing.

Eco Challenge

allows team members to utilize technology and time tested methods of navigation to find
materials and build a survival shelter, create a boat, or a primitive raft. Building component is designed for team members to work towards a common goal, complete a project, communicate, share leadership rolls, and build camaraderie. Upon request we can add a competitive edge into this event by splitting the group into teams, add a time race into the build a raft or boat challenge, and finish with a on water race using what teams have built.

 

Eco Quest

is based on a point system where teams earn points for completing timed team-building activities
encountered along their mapped route. Teams consist of 5 to 8 people , they are given a navigation device, map, and any other items needed to complete the course . The nature hunt also consists of finding animal track and plants that each group will come across in the ecosystem they are exploring. Points will be gained along the way and counted at the end to determine 3 winning categories (1st prize, 2nd prize, and something funny that we can come up with later).