TEAMBUILDING AND CHALLENGE COURSE
VCU RecWell's Outdoor Adventure Program's Teambuilding and Challenge Course program is committed to helping your team achieve its greatest potential. We are pleased to be partnering with the University of Richmond's Department of Recreation and Wellness to bring high-quality Challenge Course experiences to VCU and UR.
Our Challenge Course Programs are dedicated to serving the students, faculty, and staff of both VCU and the University of Richmond.
Whether you are a group of students about to work on a challenging project or a department struggling to communicate efficiently, we offer a variety of Challenge Course programs to best assist your team. Our programs are dedicated to building the skills necessary to become a high functioning team, including
- leadership
- trust
- communication
- creative problem solving
- conflict resolution
- strategic development
We are also excited to serve VCU and UR Affiliate Groups. An Affiliate group is defined as any group organized through VCU or UR as part of an official University organization, department, or group, in which all participants consist of students, faculty, or staff of VCU/UR.
If you are hosting a conference, training, or camp within your university, please give us a call for all your Challenge Course needs.
Not a member of the VCU or UR community? That's okay! We also offer portable and custom teambuilding programs for the greater Richmond area! We offer multiple portable and custom programs to serve the needs of your business, non-profit, municipal, state, or federal agency.
All of our programs are facilitated by trained and talented graduate and undergraduate student leaders from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond. We are dedicated to serving your group. Contact us soon to learn more about our Teambuilding programs.
Programs and fees are listed below. To register, or for more information, please email Sam Albert, Coordinator for Adventure Leadership and Teambuilding, or call 804.828.8473.
Portable Programs
Portable Teambuilding Programs can occur wherever the client would like. Some options include Cary Street Gym, a local park, classroom, or wherever the client and OAP staff agree is a good environment for the program.
Meet and Greet (1 Hour)
Includes: Icebreakers, Games, and some Initiatives
If you are planning on getting a group together for the first time, adding new members to an existing group, or just want your team to get to know one another better, than this is the program for you. With our portable icebreakers and initiatives, we will be able to meet your group anywhere in the RVA area and work to create stronger cohesion within your team.
| Customer | Price |
| VCU/UR Student | $7/person $70 minimum |
| VCU/UR Faculty/Staff |
$15/person |
| VCU/UR Affiliates |
$20/person |
Fitness Level: Low
Skill Level: Beginner
Portable Escape Rooms (1 Hour)
OAP is excited to offer a variety of Portable Escape Rooms to meet your teambuilding needs. These portable escape rooms are designed to be around 1 hour in length and for groups up to 15 people. This program will help your group or teamwork on leadership, collaboration, communication, resource management, understanding individual strengths along with weaknesses, and much more. These Portable Escape Rooms can be facilitated in almost any classroom or meeting space. This program is also very fun, engaging, and inclusive of all ability levels.
| Customer | Price |
|---|---|
| VCU/UR Student | $7/person $70 minimum |
| VCU/UR Faculty/Staff | $15/person $150 minimum |
| VCU/UR Affiliates | $20/person $200 minimum |
Fitness Level: Low
Skill Level: Beginner
Teambuilding Program (2-3 Hours)
Includes: Icebreakers & Initiatives
Our Teambuilding Program focuses on developing a foundation for your new team or re-structuring the foundation of your current team. We are dedicated to making your organization, group, or team function stronger. We will help you focus on understanding team members better, effective communication techniques, problem-solving, and developing cohesion with one another.
| Customer | Price |
| VCU/UR Student | $12/person $120 minimum |
| VCU/UR Faculty/Staff |
$17/person |
| VCU/UR Affiliates |
$25/person |
Fitness Level: Low
Skill Level: Beginner
Challenge Course Based Programs
(located at University of Richmond)
Intro Synergy Program (4 Hours)
Includes: Initiatives, Low Challenge Course Elements, Some High Challenge Course Elements.
The Intro Synergy Program is designed to give your group a taste of the full Synergy Program. During this time your group will work on multiple low elements to develop your communication, trust, and problem-solving skills before trying them in the vertical setting on 2-3 elements of our challenge course.
| Customer | Half-Day Challenge (up to 3-4 hours) |
|---|---|
| VCU Student | $22/person $220 minimum |
| UR Faculty/Staff/Student | $20/person $200 minimum |
| VCU Faculty/Staff | $30/person $300 minimum |
| VCU/UR Affiliates | $40/person $400 minimum |
Fitness Level: Medium
Skill Level: Beginner
Full Synergy Program (8 Hours)
Includes: Initiatives, Low Challenge Course Elements, Some High Challenge Course Elements.
The Full Synergy Program is designed to get your group operating like a well-oiled machine. We will create a custom program for your group starting on the ground with some foundational teambuilding activities and then move up, literally, to work on high challenge course elements. This program will help get your group on track to become a highly functional team.
| Customer | Full-Day Challenge (up to 6-8 hours) |
|---|---|
| VCU Student | $30/person $300 minimum |
| UR Faculty/Staff/Student | $30/person $300 minimum |
| VCU Faculty/Staff |
$35/person |
| VCU/UR Affiliates |
$60/person |
Fitness Level: Medium
Skill Level: Beginner
Night Climb Teambuilding (2-4 Hours)
Includes: Low and Some High Challenge Course Elements at Night!
Night Climb Teambuilding is designed to help your group become more effective at communicating and trusting one another while also having fun on the challenge course at night. This program includes some low elements and part of the high elements at the University of Richmond Challenge Course.
| Customer | Night Climb Challenge (up to 4 hours) |
|---|---|
| VCU Student | $22/person $220 minimum |
| UR Faculty/Staff/Student | $20/person $200 minimum |
| VCU Faculty/Staff |
$30/person |
| VCU/UR Affiliates |
$40/person |
Fitness Level: Medium
Skill Level: Beginner
Adventure Hybrid Programs (8 Hours)
Hybrid programs give your group the opportunity to participate in one of our local adventure trips plus a teambuilding experience at the challenge course. Current Hybrid Program offerings include:
Mountain Ram Program (8 Hours)
Includes: Icebreakers, Climbing Wall, Low Challenge Course Elements, High Challenge Course Elements.
The Mountain Ram Program is designed to get your group trusting one another to the fullest extent. Participants will also work on communication and problem-solving in a vertical environment. If your group is struggling to trust one another, this is the program for you.
Call 804-828-8473 or email Sam Albert for pricing and details.
Fitness Level: Medium
Skill Level: Medium
River Ram Program (8 Hours)
Includes: Icebreakers, White Water Rafting, Low Challenge Course Elements, High Challenge Course Elements.
The River Ram Program is designed to get your group communicating more effectively and enjoying time with others in an outdoor environment. Participants will also work on problem-solving in a vertical environment. This program is a great fit for groups looking to develop better communication, teamwork, and cohesion while having fun outside.
Fitness Level: Medium
Skill Level: Beginner
Call 804-828-8473 or email Sam Albert for pricing and details.
Virtual Escape Rooms
The OAP is excited to offer virtual Escape Rooms for groups of 2-8 Individuals (we can accommodate up to three groups simultaneously and serve up to 24 people). These programs are for VCU or University of Richmond Students, Faculty, and/or Staff. These virtual escape rooms are designed to help your team discover how to communicate and work creatively by using online communication. These virtual escape rooms last 1 hour in duration which includes 45 minutes of challenging activities and then 15 minutes of time to debrief the experience. These experiences are held on Zoom conference calls and will be facilitated by an OAP Staff member.
Get Me Home If You Can
Oh no! Your 1968 weekend adventure has turned to disaster. After spending a lovely 3 days in Oregon, you want nothing more than to be home... however, it seems that the airline has different plans. Dressed in your best garb, you embark on an adventure just to get yourself home. Can you get there while the happy vacation memories are still fresh?
The Commute
San Francisco is famous for its cable cars. However, there are many other ways the people and visitors of San Francisco get around. Let's see if your team can explore all the transportation options within 45 minutes. Good Luck.
Haunted Park
You have entered the Park only to find that it is not just creepy but haunted as well. Once you step inside, the only way out is to work your way through the rides, graveyard, and other puzzles to get to the exit and breakout of the Haunted Park.
Are You Ready Player One (difficult)
Travel back through time and space in the tribute game to Ernest Cline's best-selling novel. Testing your problem-solving and trivia knowledge. (No spoilers are revealed in the playing of this game.)
Price:
- VCU/UR Student - $25/Session
- VCU/UR Faculty/Staff - $35/Session
- VCU/UR Affiliates - $40/Session
Fitness Level: Low
Skill Level: Beginner
Multi-Directional Rooms
Unlike the other virtual escape rooms where participants stay together and navigate through the same locks, these escape rooms break up your team into several separate rooms where screens are different and clues may be more challenging to discover.
The Katrina Journals (two rooms)
Katrina found an old journal from her youth. She was a child when the Berlin Wall went up, and she never had a chance to speak up and voice concerns. Upon seeing her old journal, she wondered... if she HAD spoken up, would her story have a different ending? You're going to be split into two groups... one group to Katrina in 1952, the other to Katrina in 1989. Can you work together to break the barrier that kept her quiet all those years?
Life (Three Rooms)
In LIFE, three groups must navigate a single life from different time periods.
Custom Teambuilding Programs
We know that not every group is the same. Therefore we offer custom teambuilding programs to best suit your group's structure and needs. Feel free to call or e-mail us to work on developing your custom program. Email Sam Albert, or call 804.828.8473.
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