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Adventure Based Activities
Adventure based activities create high-impact learning environments by moving groups outside their comfort zone. Participants are challenged physically and mentally by activities designed to simulate various aspects of high performance teams.
A sense of community and purpose is established by evoking the trust and esprit-de-corps that comes from challenging and fun experiences performed collectively. Participants are more willing to take calculated risks in their daily lives after experiencing the sense of accomplishment and well being resulting from the day's events.
Debriefing the activity is an important part of the training. Our team of facilitators will lead a discussion after the activity to reinforce the deeper significance of the group's experiences, including goal setting, effective communication, collaboration, role definition, leadership, problem solving, trust, and risk taking.
Raft Building
Participants build a make-shift raft that can support two or more people. Each team is provided with resources to design and build their vessel. Healthy competition provides for a fun and exciting activity as each team attempts to paddle their raft out to the dock and back. Individuals choose how they would like to participate. Inevitably, one or more rafts, though sturdy in theory, do not prove seaworthy--and it always provides for a laugh!
High and Low Ropes
High-rope activities take place on wires strung across a course 15-50 feet in the air. Low-rope activities take place close to ground level. Individuals are required to complete a series of maneuvers on the ropes. There are usually 1-6 people off the ground at a time, each wearing a harness and helmet and connected to a safety rope. A safety system is manned on the ground by members of the team and under the close scrutiny of a trained instructor. Critical team competencies such as trust, effective communication, risk-taking, goal setting, leadership, and collaboration are practiced and refined. Some participants have claimed that their participation in a rope course was life altering.
Geocaching Fusion
This worldwide phenomenon has individuals, families and teams using hand held GPS’s and their eyes and intellect to search for hidden treasure all over the world! Our custom designed event is based on the sport of geocaching but with an emphasis on the importance of working as a high performing team and thinking on your feet.
The Survivor Challenge
Sure your organization can survive the pressure of meeting deadlines, early morning meetings, and a daily barrage of emails, but do they have what it takes to make it through the Survivor Challenge? This collaborative challenge will draw on the most primitive survival skills your group posses and rest assured, no one will be voted off of our island.
Shao-lin Kung Fu
Looking for a program with a kick? Then you are looking for Shao-lin Kung Fu. Focus the mind and body in an exhilarating program that combines eastern philosophy with western. Participants practice the balance of hard and soft that is at the root of Shao-lin training. The program concludes with a demonstration by the masters. The participants have an opportunity to see that focused, efficient and consistent training over a longer period of time will yield dynamic and powerful results.
Mystic River Challenge
How’s your poker face? Can you keep a straight face while running around on land and water searching for your best possible 5-card hand? Your challenge if you choose to accept will be to earn as many chips as possible in order to purchase playing cards through a series of challenges. These playing cards will be used to try to make the best 5-card hand of poker. The team with the best poker hand wins the event.
Fusion Regatta – Water Version
Here’s the chance to see what’s more important: Having the right people on the boat or making sure everyone is rowing in the right direction! A key customer with specific requirements has just placed an order for a fleet of boats. Each team must work together to build a boat for the fleet. The customer will be looking for a fleet of boats that meets their specifications, looks good and goes fast. In fact, each boat will be tested for its seaworthiness in a race around a series of buoys. Ships ahoy!
Canoe Orienteering Challenge
Looking for an adventure that requires as much brains as brawn? Where what you do is as important as who does it? Then you are looking for Canoe Orienteering! Canoe Orienteering is a canoe and/or kayak race with a map and compass.
Rock Climbing
What goes up, but could fall down? Someone climbing a vertical wall. But don’t worry, your team mates will be handling the safety belays to make sure you don’t fall far. Rock climbing is an exhilarating and effective activity for forging high performance teams. It captures the essence of "individuality" combined with "team" to achieve the extraordinary.
Norwalk Islands Canoe & Kayak Treasure Hunt
Arrgh! There is pirate booty buried off the coast of Norwalk, CT and it’s your mission to find it! Man the boats, grabs the paddles, don the life vest and unravel the clues to find the treasure. But which island is it on?
Team Orienteering
Team Orienteering requires participants to navigate through a series of checkpoints using a map and compass and is set in a beautiful and natural setting. Team members are required to work together in an activity that simulates many of the issues faced by teams daily. Effective communication, collaborative problem solving, working with conflict, real time planning and processing, and leadership are practiced and refined.
Bridging the Gap
Imagine building you own bridge over water and crossing it! This is a team building metaphor we could wax lyrical upon for hours. But it’s real and your team can make it happen! We have combined two of our most popular events, bridge and raft building, into an exciting new program.
Custom Adventures
Fusion Associates can provide adventures that will challenge the mind and body, including hiking, camping, and white water rafting, as well as multi-day expeditions. Multi-day adventures are a very effective means for forging the tight bonds that lay the foundation for high performance teams.
