Ihduhapi Adventure Learning / Teambuilding
ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER
One of Ihduhapi’s greatest resources is our Adventure Learning Center. Utilizing the facilities of Ihduhapi’s popular ropes course, the ALC offers participants from groups of all ages and abilities the unique opportunity to grow by challenging themselves in a fun, positive environment with the support of their peers.
Groups ranging in size from 8 to 150 come to Ihduhapi’s ALC year-round. For businesses looking to bring a team together, schools wanting to take the learning experience outdoors, or spiritual groups interested in bringing a new dimension to their teachings, our staff will work to design an Adventure Learning Program to fit your needs. For bookings, call us at 763-479-1146 or e-mail us.
ADVENTURE LEARNING PROGRAMS
The Ihduhapi ALC offers a wide range of activities and programs to help groups work toward achieving their teambuilding objectives. Our programs combine Low Initiatives and Climbing Challenges in programs of varying length. For business organizations, the Adventure Hunt adds a fun, competitive element to the team-building day.
Whether yours is a business group, school or spiritual organization, let us help you design a program that will challenge your group and bring them together in exciting new ways. Call us at 763-479-1146 or e-mail us.
Low Initiatives
Low Initiatives are fun collaborative challenges that have been selected to support the goals of the group. In working together to solve these challenges, groups find themselves testing their familiar methods of communication, responsibility, cooperation, trust, risk-taking and creative problem-solving. After each Initiative, discussions led by skilled Ihduhapi facilitators help groups reflect on their experiences and develop a plan to apply what they learn to other challenges they face.
Climbing Challenges
The second feature of the ALC Program is a Climbing Challenge. Participants wear safety harnesses to take on the opportunity of challenging themselves by climbing one of Ihduhapi’s high-ropes events. From this new perspective members of your group can find themselves adapting to meet challenges in ways they hadn’t thought possible. This becomes a powerful and inspiring tool for tapping into one’s own undiscovered potential. In participating in a Climbing Challenge, as in working at Low Initiatives, team support provides the framework for individual success. The climbing events on Ihduhapi’s ropes course present different challenges with different objectives:
The PAMPER POLE challenges individual climbers to set personal goals and
explore self-confidence as they climb, and have the opportunity to jump
from, a 28-foot pole.
The CLIMBING TOWER and GIANT’S LADDER provide climbers with opportunities to explore teamwork as two or three participants work
together to attain one goal.
On the HIGH Vs and HIGH Ys participants work in pairs to develop trust
and commitment as they traverse tightropes among the trees.
The HIGH ROPES COURSE, ZIP LINE, and RAPPEL are fun individual
challenges that rely on group support to emphasize taking responsibility and giving 100%.
Adventure Hunt
For corporate teams, the Adventure Hunt is a program designed specifically for each group which builds on the challenges unique to a competitive business environment. A high-energy, highly motivated part of the teambuilding day, the Adventure Hunt is an outdoor scavenger hunt which asks participants to use maps and clues to find different points around camp, then culminates in an obstacle course. Combined with a program of Low Initiatives and a Climbing Challenge, the Adventure Hunt brings out the best in its participants.
WHO COMES TO THE IHDUHAPI ALC?
Participants in Ihduhapi ALC programs range in age from middle schoolers to retirees and have represented groups from the corporate world, academics, spiritual groups and a diverse cross-section of the non-profit community. Each year our list of Corporate Clients, Academic Groups, Spiritual Organizations and Non-Profit Groups keeps growing.
Corporate Clients
Businesses large and small come to the Ihduhapi ALC for training sessions, work groups and teambuilding. Ihduhapi’s complete Conference and Retreat Center and the custom-fit corporate programs of our ALC bring groups together in a setting worlds away from the workplace. Our clients have included:
Ford Motor Corp.
Target Corp.
Medtronic
3M
Carlson Companies
Qwest
Syngenta Seeds
Ryan Companies
Lifetouch
Arthur Andersen
American Express
Deloitte-Touche
Pillsbury
Ernst and Young
Academic Groups
Thousands of students from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin come to Ihduhapi each year. A few of the schools and colleges that have brought groups for programs at the Ihduhapi ALC:
University of Minnesota
Carlson School of Management
Wayzata Schools
Crown College
Hamline University Gymnastics Team
St. Paul Academy
Hopkins Schools
University of Minnesota Women’s Basketball Team
Northwestern College
Breck School
Hudson (WI) High School
Benilde-St. Margaret
St. John’s University Aikido Club
Spiritual Organizations
The unique challenges of an ALC Program provide fertile ground to bring the teachings of all faiths to life. Congregants of all ages and a variety of spiritual walks have found that programs of the Ihduhapi ALC, particularly when part of a longer retreat at the camp, can be a powerful component of a faith-centered experience. Some of the groups that have used our facilities have included:
St. Alphonsus Church
Woodbury Lutheran Church
Temple Israel Camp Teko
St. Mary of Madelia
Unitarian Universalist Church
St. Edward’s Church
Clouds in Water Zen Center
Grace Fellowship
Non-Profit Groups
The experiential education programs of the Ihduhapi ALC are particularly effective with groups of alternative learners and special populations. Some of the non-profit groups that have taken part in ALC programs include:
Skills for Tomorrow
Hazelden Youth and Family Center
Americorps
Tree House
MS Society
Bolder Options
Epilepsy Foundation
Minnesota Conservation Corps
Delta Place
TLC
QUOTES FROM PARTICIPANTS
“As far as getting to know each other, one day at Camp Ihduhapi was worth 6 months of regular office contact.”
-- An ALC Participant from a corporate group
What can a program at the Ihduhapi ALC do for a group? Here’s a sampling of recent feedback we’ve received from participants:
“If we can remember what worked for us at Camp Ihduhapi – that we’re always stronger when we work together -- then we’re going to achieve our goals and build our business.”
-- Regional Sales Manager, national Agricultural Products Company
“…a huge thank you for the wonderful work you did with our accounting people on Wednesday. They all had a fabulous time and will be talking about their experiences for a long time to come.” -- Trainer, international Travel-Service Corporation
“The facilitators were wonderful, encouraging and understanding. They were very sensitive to the groups needs.” -- High School Counselor
“The events selected helped our entire group realize how important it is to work together. Yet, they also taught us the importance of working on your own. Thanks for all your guidance and challenges!” – Participant, corporate group
“I loved how positive the facilitators were. They showed tremendous respect for each student!” -- Girls’ School Principal
“Wonderful, energetic facilitators – very encouraging; made it fun and helped the kids to learn a lot!” – Church Youth Pastor
“Your staff really helped our kids work together. They were very good with Junior high students.” Junior High School Administrator
“It was a wonderful experience and really brought our team together. Thank you!” – High School Swim Team Coach
“This was great!” – Technical School Administrator
For reference information, call us at 763-479-1146 or
e-mail us.
PRICES
The cost of a program at the Ihduhapi ALC varies depending on the group size, the activities selected, the facilities of the camp utilized by the group, and meals. Call us at 763-479-1146 or
e-mail us for more information.
