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Custom Team Building Experience For
Onion Lake Family Services
Location: Loon Lake, Maple Ridge, BC
Date: May 11-16th, 2025
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- Dave Taylor, Leadership Development & Events Lead, Lululemon Athletica
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Onion Lake Family Services
Summary of Your Needs & Logistics:
Contact: Vanessa Rose
Date: May 11-16th, 2025 (5 days) 2025
Location: Loon Lake Lodge and Retreat Centre, Maple Ridge, BC
Group size/demographics: 11 adults
Summary of Invitation, Context, Format & Group Objectives:
Vanessa Rose from Onion Lake Family Services (LFS) has invited Jono and the Pinnacle Pursuits team to host/facilitate a multi-day corporate training and professional development retreat. It will include both workshops and educational trainings as well as active and interactive team-building activities (with options of both active indoor and outdoor experiences). The group is made up of 11 employees comprising of a wide range of ages (20’s to 60’s), length of time with the organization, and professional work experience.
Overall goals, hopes and learning outcomes include:
- Team-building - to build a sense of connection, engagement, community, support and trust.
- Educational and skill-based training - in areas of communication, leadership, self-awareness, and motivation.
- Professional training – in areas of self-management, time management, organization, focus and accountability to values and standards that are required and expected in a professional mature work environment.
- *Note: Some employees require extra focus and attention in areas of personal life skills to help improve overall professionalism, expectations and accountability.
Recommended Program & Agenda over 5 days
Based on our recent phone call, planning is at the beginning stages at this point with exact agenda, program content, activities and overall experience flow and progression TBD. For now, this is an initial SAMPLE proposal for the 5-day customized experiential training and development retreat.
Based on your diverse range of goals and objectives (as above), we would recommend a series of workshops mixed with activities that progressively support the learning and development outcomes. *See Proposed Agenda below as well as Recommended Program descriptions with downloadable PDF summaries.
Proposed Agenda (SAMPLE only):
Day 1 - Monday
Afternoon (Time TBD) - Arrival, Lunch TBD, Settle in, Fun Welcome Activities, Workshop (ie. ‘Clarifying Mission & Values’)
Evening – Supper; Team-Building & Social Activities TBD; Campfire TBD
Day 2 – Tuesday
Morning Workshop - (Who’s on the Team: ‘True Colours Leadership/Personality Assessment’)
Afternoon – Activity ‘Spaghetti & Marshmallow Challenge’ & ‘Serious Play’. Integrating specific learning, focusing on what skills are required for effective teamwork and leadership/performance.
Evening – Supper; Team-Building & Social Activities TBD; Campfire TBD
Day 3 – Wednesday
Morning Workshop - (‘Emotional Intelligence’ or ‘Clear Communication’; integrating Professional Expectations & Standards with Personal Styles; touching on Coaching & Mentoring)
Afternoon – Part 1: Introducing Project management, Workplans. Integrating task-oriented performance, time management, team expectations, and communication. *Possible inclusion of staff performance evaluation methods based on professional expectations).
Afternoon – Part 2: Woodland Orienteering/Scavenger Hunt. Integrate/practise the above learning as/whether relevant.
Debrief & apply to work environment accordingly.
Evening – Supper; Chill time; Campfire TBD
Day 4 – Wednesday
Morning Workshop - (‘What’s Most Important’: Creation of Personal Vivid Vision/Credo; Professional Reflection on Goal-setting Benchmarks)
Afternoon – Part 1: Low & High Ropes Course. Coming together to work together, support & trust one another, take risks together, lead and celebrate in a high performance and challenging inclusive setting.
Evening – Supper; Team-Building & Social Activities TBD; Campfire TBD
Day 5 – Friday
Morning Workshop – TBD. Based on what needs to be reviewed and focused on, acknowledged & appreciated, celebration.
Afternoon – Departure
*Additional Recommendation: To include a pre-retreat engagement questionnaire. See explanation and details in budget.
Next Steps:
We look forward to knowing what how this proposal reflects your vision and training objectives and meets your budget, so we can begin refining details and next steps.
Thank you!
Please see Proposed Program & Sample Agenda with Associated Budget here…
Download your Proposed Program Agenda & Budget SummaryRecommended Program Activities for
Onion Lake Family Services
Interactive Training Workshops
Facilitated personal and professional development training topics. These may include Strategic Visioning & Values, Clear Communication=Clear Leadership, Creativity & Collaboration, Leadership Assessment Profiles & more. These sessions are often customized to fit your specific group dynamics as well as your organizational culture, learning and development goals. We ensure the training is relevant, transferable, refreshing and fun!
Serious Play
A series of fun indoor/outdoor facilitated activity-based team initiatives, for groups that require more focus on group dynamics, social interaction, team-work and fun! Competition is optional as is degree of facilitation (activity choice customized for each group based on group dynamics and training objectives).
Orienteering Challenge
In teams, participants learn to use traditional orienteering methods along with a ‘landmark legend’ and a set of guidelines, to navigate through their environment towards a variety of creative check point stations (mystery team challenges). The initiatives and will require teams to plan, strategize, communicate effectively, and regularly re-evaluate their decisions!
The Marshmallow Challenge Workshop
This challenge is a world renown, fun and instructive exercise that encourages teams to experience simple but profound lessons in collaboration, creativity & innovation. This fast-paced activity inspires a shared learning experience, opening up various possibilities to achieve success - or not!
Adventure Play at Loon Lake, Maple Ridge
A series of various adventure-based experiences and options from which participants can choose (ie. canoeing, raft-building, archery, low ropes and high ropes, rock climbing) that will help get people out of the board room and make any meeting or conference refreshing, interactive and fun! Located at one of our partner 'Adventure-Centre': Loon Lake Lodge & Retreat Centre, Maple Ridge.
Serious Play
FOR INDOOR CONFERENCES & EVENTS
A series of fun indoor facilitated activity-based team initiatives, for groups that require more focus on group dynamics, social interaction, team-work and fun! Competition is optional as is degree of facilitation (activity choice customized for each group based on group dynamics and training objectives).
LOOKING TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE, OR HAVE OUR TEAM MANAGE YOUR OFF-SITE RETREAT OR FULL DESTINATION EXPERIENCE?
Whether you envision a combination of our most popular programs, a specific location of your choice, or something completely unique to your group, we're always happy to create a customized experience for you that will provide a positive lasting impact.
In addition to facilitating the team-building events and training portion, Pinnacle Pursuits has the capacity to help manage all experiences within a fully customized destination experience. We are happy to quote on that once a destination is chosen and a desired scope of work is clarified.
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Program Contract
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Deposit Invoice
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Participant Consent Waiver
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Participant Welcome Letter
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Team Spirit Challenge
An event where the whole group is together in the same area, and teams compete in series of unique high-energy, amazing ‘Survivor-like’ group challenges that require problem-solving, trust-building and creative teamwork solutions! With a fun, strength-based approach, this is a great event for including diverse needs and abilities. Always makes for awesome photos and memories!
Amazing Adventure Race
Be ready for a high-impact adventure-based ‘scavenger hunt-style’ experience! Teams are given a map, legend, course and clues and compete in a unique team adventure challenge, racing through the local trails and beautiful wilderness setting whilst finding and completing strategically hidden and customized checkpoint challenges and team building initiatives.
Amazing Adventure Race: Remote Radio Course
Each team will be split in two & given 2 radios along with maps and clues. The challenge will require teams to strategize carefully, make key decisions, adapt as needed, and communicate via radio in order to complete all creative challenges, checkpoints, and problem-solving tasks successfully. This is an intense experience that mirrors working as a remote team!
Adventure Play at Camp Pringle, Shawnigan lake
A series of various adventure-based experiences and options from which participants can choose (ie. canoeing, raft-building, archery, low ropes and high ropes, rock climbing) that will help get people out of the board room and make any meeting or conference refreshing, interactive and fun! Located at one of our partner 'Adventure-Centre': Pringle Camp & Retreat, Shawnigan Lake.
Corporate Picnic Adventure Day
Includes many activity options. Imagine a super fun, interactive, company-wide experience where everyone has the time and space to relax, connect, recharge, play together as colleagues and/or as families, and at the same time accomplish something uniquely different, where company values are promoted and celebrated, and new friendships and memories are created!
Adventure-Play-Wellness Day
The best mix of of various adventure-based and wellness experiences options from which participants can choose (ie. lantern making, candle-making, personal leadership/goal-setting, clay-work, circle drumming, canoeing, raft-building, archery, low ropes and high ropes, rock climbing & more) that will help get people out of the city and make any experience refreshing, interactive and fun! Located at one of our partner 'Adventure-Centres'.
Paddle & Play Day
Paddle & Play is a unique land & water team-building event that combines your choice of one or several of our land-based activities with either traditional Voyageur Canoes or Dragon Boating. Teams will divide and take turns being on land and on water. They will compete in a series of challenges where teamwork, strategy, problem solving, collaboration, and a sense of fun are key to team and organizational success.
Dragon Boating Adventure
Paddling either 10 or 20-person canoes, and led by a professional team of dragon boat instructors, your group will benefit from the expertise of trained facilitators to help guide them through the basics of dragon boat paddling skills and learn to work together to paddle safely, paddle fast, and have tons of fun!
Virtual Team Building
During our Virtual Programs, each participant will use their skills and creativity in a way that may have taken a back seat in today’s remote work-life. In addition, we debrief each event, so that all participants can learn how to relate and apply the experience to their everyday life and business environment. The overall benefit for you? You will see how your team can continue to grow and connect, even when physically apart.
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THE PINNACLE DIFFERENCE
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Customizable programs
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Top-notch facilitation & quality instruction
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Highest standards of risk management
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Diverse selection of activities
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Transferable experiences & lessons
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TOTALLY FUN, MEMORABLE & RESULTS-FOCUSSED!
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STEP 3: Confirm Logistics, Budget & Deposit Payment
Time to map it out...from group size, objectives, program choice, schedule and budget, we'll make it a great experience!
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"The Pinnacle Pursuits team provided an amazing full day of training and team-building that went above and beyond expectations. They had all 130 of us engaged, laughing, and participating. Everyone loved it. It couldn’t have been better!"
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