Connect Your People, Empower Your Team, and Inspire Growth!
Year 'round, custom team-building experiences, leadership programs, and action-learning adventures for corporate groups and organizations - delivered by Pinnacle Pursuits at Manning Park Resort.
“Jono and the Pinnacle Pursuits team went above and beyond in researching our preferred location and curating an experience specific to our requests. Coordinating the build-out of our program was easy, and the day-of facilitators brought great energy and clear instructions supporting seamless execution of a much anticipated and worthwhile team-building and connection experience.”
Jessica Misagawa, SVP Planning & Allocation
Since 1997 | 330,000+ People Served | 11 Countries | Award-Winning Programs
Trusted by Teams Who Value Real Growth
Better Team. Better Business.
Custom-designed and facilitated experiences that strengthen connection, collaboration, leadership, and team performance.
Pinnacle Pursuits' custom-designed and facilitated year 'round events provide opportunities for people to connect and collaborate, develop new skills, expand their perspectives, strengthen health and well-being, and achieve peak levels of success, both personally and professionally.
- Infuse energy & enthusiasm
- Inspire vision & creativity
- Strengthen bonds between colleagues
- Elevate leadership potential
- Celebrate successes
- Have fun!
Connection. Adventure. Learning. Growth.
At Pinnacle Pursuits, we believe meaningful growth happens when people feel safe enough to explore, supported enough to take a risk, and engaged enough to learn through experience.
Explore Your Possibilities
Step outside the everyday through shared learning and team challenges that build connection, confidence, communication, and trust.
Popular, Four Season Options Include:
INTERACTIVE TRAINING & SKILL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Professionally crafted and facilitated workshops designed to strengthen organizational culture, leadership, vision, innovation, communication, relationships, and group dynamics.
Can be paired effectively with a corresponding team-building activity or adventure.
SERIOUS PLAY
Carefully designed and facilitated ice-breakers, energizers and team-building initiatives that get teams laughing, collaborating, building cohesion, and reflecting on team process and workplace culture.
Canb be hosted indoors or outdoors.
TEAM SPIRIT CHALLENGE
Celebrate your organizational culture, team spirit, and values through a creative, energizing, competitive, and high-spirited event.
The event takes place in one location where teams move through a series of unique teamwork challenges & problem-solving initiatives!
Option to be themed like the TV show 'Survivor'.
AMAZING ADVENTURE RACE
A fast-paced 'scavenger-hunt style' challenge that combines problem-solving, strategy, adventure, and friendly competition as teams race to checkpoints through forest trails and unique landmarks in the park.
Various courses available based on group goals, including a radio course to mimic remote working conditions.
ADVENTURE-PLAY DAY
Get away from the Boardroom & Choose Your Own Adventure!
Based on personal guest preferences, activity choices include Canoeing, Archery, Raft-Building, Orienteering Scavenger Hunt, a Guided Eco-Hike, and More...
More information on specific activities available upon request.
WELLNESS PROGRAMS IN NATURE
Body, Mind & Spirit: Unwind. Refresh. Reset.
Various options for creative, experiential programming designed to help teams reconnect, re-energize, and strengthen personal and collective well-being.
Manning Park Resort: A Place to Reconnect, Re-Energize, and Grow
Getting your team away from the everyday creates space for different conversations, stronger connections, and fresh perspectives. Surrounded by mountains, forest and lakes, Manning Park Resort offers an extraordinary setting to step away from routine, recharge and experience something meaningful together.
Learning Through Experience
Our programs are grounded in experiential learning and intentionally designed around the goals, dynamics, and needs of each group.
Pinnacle Pursuits programs are grounded in experiential learning and intentionally designed around the goals, dynamics, and needs of each team. Based on degree of depth and facilitation required, participants move through a continuous process of experience, reflection, meaning-making and application.
The result: active, relevant learning that can transfer directly back into your everyday life, relationships, leadership and business environment.
EXPERIENCE
Participate. Experiment. Engage.
Participants engage directly in an activity, challenge, or shared experience.
REFLECT
What happened? How did we respond individually and as a team?
Participants pause to reflect on their actions, responses, interactions, and the experience as a whole.
MAKE MEANING
What was revealed about communication, leadership, trust, collaboration, or team culture?
With purposeful facilitation, participants identify patterns, draw connections, and develop new understanding about themselves and their team.
APPLY
How can we put this learning into practice back at work?
Participants consider how they can put new insights, strategies, and behaviours into practice at work, in their relationships, and in future challenges.
AWARD-WINNING EXPERIENTIAL PROGRAMS
Experience You Can Trust
Programs built on nearly three decades of experience, purposeful facilitation, and a commitment to safe, meaningful learning.
Customized by Design
Programs are shaped around your team, organizational culture, objectives, group dynamics and desired outcomes.
Experienced Facilitation
High-quality facilitation and instruction designed to keep participants actively engaged.
Safety & Risk Management
Established operating standards, professional practices, and appropriate activity-specific risk management.
Learning That Transfers
Experiences designed to help participants connect what happens in the program to work, leadership, relationships, and everyday life.
Let Us Take the Stress Out of Planning Your Next Team-Building or Offsite Event
From the first conversation to final program delivery, we work with you to understand your people, objectives, schedule, and over-arching vision.
Whether for 20 or 200 people, a one-day event or a multi-day retreat, we'll help create an experience that fits your team, your objectives, and your time at Manning Park Resort.
- One-day or multi-day
- 20 to 200+ participants
- Adventure, learning, or both
- Customized around your goals
SAFE. INCLUSIVE. MEANINGFUL. FUN. MEMORABLE.
Experience with Diverse Groups & Communities
Pinnacle Pursuits has worked with communities across a wide range of ages, cultures, learning styles, abilities, group dynamics, and program objectives. Our approach is intentionally adaptable, helping facilitators meet each group where they are.
Royal Bank of Canada
“Pinnacle Pursuits has what it takes to create premier corporate experiences…they empower participants to exceed their personal best in a challenging yet safe environment…we look forward to Pinnacle events for many years to come."
Mike Schauch, Portfolio Manager
Electronic Arts Canada
"The quality of your service and the passion and experience you bring to everything you do is evident in the results you attained from our team. Thanks again for a wonderful job, a well-designed day and an amazing experience."
Lynda Brown, Development Director
Nature's Path Organic Foods
“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!”
Denise Bosman, Human Resources Directo
What Happens Next?
Step 1
Tell Us About Your Group
Share your dates, group size, age range and what you'd like participants to gain from the experience.
Step 2
We Design Your Program
We'll recommend the right mix of activities and facilitated experiences for your goals, schedule, and budget.
Step 3
Enjoy Your Loon Lake Experience
We take care of the programming so you can focus on your group.
Explore Team-Building Your Possibilities at Manning Park Resort
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We can't wait to help make your Loon Lake stay the experience of a lifetime!