Today, we sat down with our Adventure Program Specialist, Jacob Boyer, to ask him about the importance of team building activities. A large part of Boyer’s job as our Adventure Program Specialist is to lead team building exercises for various groups through icebreakers, ropes course activities, or traditional team building activities that can easily be altered to cater to different types of groups while challenging group members physically or mentally.
Boyer has participated in team building activities for as long as he can remember, but has lead team building exercises since 2010 while volunteering at Camp Chandler. Ever since, he has become certified in Team Building and his love for helping groups work together has followed him throughout his life. Boyer finds team building activities essential to all groups because group members are able to showcase their problem solving, leadership, and physical skills in a casual setting that might not be shown otherwise. His favorite activity to lead is a game called “Islands”. In “Islands”, teams are shown a series of platforms that progressively become smaller in size. The goal is to get all of the team members on the smallest platform possible. Boyer states that “Islands” is his favorite exercise to lead because the game “showcases each member’s creativity and problem solving skills”.
This week, ASCCA is hosting Camp Alabama Pre/Post Adoption Connections (APAC), and Boyer decided to heavily incorporate team building exercises within the schedule in hopes of creating a close community between staff and campers where trust and communication is established. For APAC, groups will complete numerous icebreakers as well as completing a ropes course, trolleys, logs, nitro swing, and the game “Islands”. He is most looking forward to watching how group dynamics will change throughout the week as team members gradually build trust with one another while embracing and strengthening their own leadership qualities.
Boyer hopes that everyone will learn from team building exercises the importance of “giving each group member in any setting an equal and fair opportunity because everyone always has something to contribute for the betterment of the group”.
Go to https://www.campascca.org/apac-at-ascca/ to learn more information about APAC at ASCCA.
Campbell Morgan, PR
Summer 2021
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