The map is shared. So is the win.
In a wilderness orienteering adventure, no single team can finish alone. Teams navigate to waypoints by map, compass and GPS — and keep crossing paths, where they have to trade information and lend support to get everyone across the line.
A business simulation set in a large, remote outdoor area. Smaller teams are each given a map, a GPS unit or compass, and clues that lead to different waypoints — every one of them critical to the overall mission. The catch: teams intersect, and can only succeed by exchanging information and offering each other support.
How it plays out
Each team sets off toward its waypoints, solving clues and riddles along a custom route. Because the routes cross, people quickly learn that hoarding information slows everyone down — and that sacrificing a little self-interest is what lets the whole company win. It’s challenging, dynamic, and loaded with business metaphors that surface on their own.
Facilitation is the difference between a nice day out and a lasting change. At the end of each stage, facilitators debrief the team dynamics — how the group works, the role each person plays in making or breaking the team, and how supporting others changes the outcome. The connections back to the workplace are what give the day its impact.
Choose your format
Half-Day Adventure
A focused wilderness navigation challenge with facilitated debriefs — easy to bolt onto a conference, business meeting or sales training.
Full-Day Program
The complete experience, closing with a 60-minute business-application and goal-setting workshop that ties the adventure to deliverable results.
Team Building Challenge
A version tuned to include every fitness level — a gentle walk in the woods or a competitive race combining strategy, navigation and stamina.
Coaching & action plans
The full-day program includes workplace goals, individual action-plan commitments, and follow-up executive coaching sessions to keep the learning alive.
What’s included
- An initial assessment of your team’s blockages, challenges and desired outcomes
- A custom-designed course, unique to your organization
- Kickoff, overview, warm-up activity and team assignments
- GPS units or compasses, maps, waypoint markers, clues, riddles and team challenges
- A professionally facilitated debrief linking the simulation to work
- Workplace goals, action-plan commitments and follow-up coaching (full-day program)
What your team takes back to work
Participants are pushed to build trust, think strategically, play to each other’s strengths, manage limited resources and set self-interest aside so the whole team succeeds. Everyone leaves bonded more deeply with their teammates — and holding a specific, step-by-step plan for how they’ll support the team back on the job. We tie the whole day to measurable results.
What it costs
Cost flexes on group size, location, format and follow-up, so there’s no flat rate. Tell us your goals and group and we’ll scope a program with you. Book a call.
Frequently asked questions
Do participants need to be fit or experienced? +
No. Orienteering is a sport for all ages and fitness levels — it can be a walk in the woods or a competitive race. The course is designed to challenge yet include team members of every physical ability.
Where can it take place? +
Any large outdoor setting — it works best with several acres of hiking trails and a nearby meeting lodge. It's easy to add onto a conference, business meeting or sales training.
How long is it? +
A half day (about four hours) or a full day (about seven hours). The full-day program ends with a 60-minute business-application and goal-setting workshop.
How is it tied to real results? +
Facilitators debrief team dynamics at each stage and close with a business-application workshop, so everyone leaves with a step-by-step action plan. The full-day program also includes follow-up executive coaching sessions.
Point your team at the same finish line.
Tell us your group size, location and goals. We’ll design a wilderness orienteering adventure that turns navigation into real teamwork — and ties it back to the work.