Portable Teambuilding Activities: Games, Initiatives, and Team Challenges for Any Space

CHRIS CAVERT & FRIENDS

ISBN: 978-1-939019-14-1 SIZE: 7.75 x 9.25 PAGE COUNT: 234  

An evocative list—FUN, choice of challenge, discussion, compassion, self-efficacy, respect, acceptance, integrity, discovery, teamwork—all integral parts of experiential/adventure education. Did you notice the bold first word in this magic list? Fortunately, Chris Cavert, is a dedicated FUN magnet, and your welcoming guide to active participation (from the Foreword by Karl Rohnke).

This book is filled with a variety of teambuilding activities with a range of challenge levels.These activities can be used with middle and high school students, college students, and adult groups of all ages and backgrounds. Most of the challenges require easy-to-find props and equipment, others require some extra effort before you play. All the activities can be resources to add to powerful and positive pro-social development programs. If you can answer “Yes” to any one of the following questions, then we can confidently say, “This book IS for you.” • Are you an educator or counselor of middle or high school students interested in building a stronger community in your classroom, gym, or school? • Do you work with adult populations helping them build stronger teams, communities, and workplace relationships? • Are you an adventure education facilitator working with groups of all ages on challenge courses, teambuilding programs, and wilderness trips? • Do you want to make a positive impact on the social development of the people you teach and the people with which you work? • Are you interested in making the space around you, and even the world, a more peaceful place to live? • Are you willing to “approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure?”

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Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Section One: Initiative Tests Getting Names Liner Quotes  The DaKine Game Phobias Statue Tag  Noodle Lock & Key Tag Migration Figure 8 Boogie Ball Pressure Cooker Fast Ball Reduction Breather One More Chance Surfing the Web Target Dilemma ZOOM Word Circle Puzzles Trilogy 1 The Crossings Corner-2-Corner There & Back Pressure Play Too Quinn-tessential Challenge Knot Around Here Trilogy 2 Coiled Rope 5-Point Star Shooting Star Fill In Group Poem Calvinball Challenge Group Jump Section Two: Notable Variations Drop Stop What Can You Make of It, Too? Noodle Speed Rabbit Pro-Noodle Tag Eye Contact Partner Tag Ship to Shore Team Flashback Tag Flashback Tag Unlimited Limb-itless Moonball Luna Launching Sound Movements What Are Your Chickens Falling Star Number Cards Bull Ring, Clipping In Traffic Jam: Puzzling Norms Section Three: Portable Elements Blue Portal BT Shuffle Flip the Tube Find Your Island Railroad Crossing Traveling Puzzle The Great Hole Tarp Leaky Pickles PVCystem Portable Elements Kit Make It in 4 Steps Blind Roll Configurations Overhead Crane Electric Amoeba Razor’s Edge Lines of Communication Body Parts Object Pass The Web We Weave (a.k.a., Rope Pass) One Way (a.k.a., Spider Web) Double Pass Spider Web Horizontal Spider Web   House Trap Appendix A: Facilitated Objectives List of Activities/Alphabetized Appendix B: Equipment Needs Appendix C: Calvinball References Resources About the Author