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Team Building & Journeys of Discovery

Destination Planning

Tipi Building
Team Ropes Course
Mountain GPS Scavenger Hunt
Mural Painting
Native American Journey of Discovery

Native American Specialties

Bandelier National Monument • Petroglyphs • Chaco Canyon • Native American Pottery Class • Taos and the High Road
• Native American Float Trip. . . And Native American art studio tours, drum-making and cooking classes
We also offer full-service multi-day itineraries throughout the southwest with an emphasis on Native American culture.

Please call for details


Off Road Rally and Scavenger Hunt

This activity and the Plaza oriented hunt below are ideal activities for sales conferences, incentive groups and corporate management teams.

This activity focuses on a combination of team building, friendly competition and the pure fun of discovery. Participants are divided into teams - each with a guide, instruction packets that include navigational directions, questions to be answered and things to be found. Teams navigate through some of the most beautiful areas in New Mexico and are guided into the history, geology, beauty, art and cultures that make New Mexico so unique. Many hints are given - some a little crazy and obtuse. Of course, questions relevant to your group can add a little spice. Polaroid cameras and film are included, the guides grade the tests at the end, team chants are performed, and prizes can be awarded.

This event and the Plaza oriented hunt below are ideal activities for sales conferences, incentive groups and management teams and general team building activities.

 

Plaza Madness Scavenger Hunt on Foot

This event begins with the group meeting at a central location, where they receive an overview of the Santa Fe. Participants are divided into teams and the guide explains the game and its rules. They are then walked to the center of the Plaza, and the fun begins! This activity can be formatted to fill any time period between 1 and 3 hours, and fits nicely before a group lunch, dinner or cocktail event. Polaroid cameras, team chants, zany questions, and honest discovery are all combined. Special twists available for competitive incentive group types or shopping oriented spouse activities.

Team incentive

Tipi Building - Team Building or Just Plain Fun

Native American tipi walls have long been embellished with both realistic and symbolic paintings that tell of the culture's great legends, hunts and dreams. For this activity the group will be divided into teams that will design and build a tipi that tells the team's story.

Each team is challenged to:
- Create a free standing tipi with an entrance
- Decorate all panels of the tipi in a story pattern - without using letters or numbers.
- integrate corporate program and individual vision, goals strengths, etc. - into the "story".

It is said that you can't have a Native American chant without a drum (which we supply); it carries the heartbeat of the tribe. The Tribal Chant must not exceed one minute and will be judged on creativity, enthusiasm and team delivery.

See our Native American Specialties page

 

Team Ropes Course

The world looks very different from atop a 30 foot wooden platform, tethered to two of your co-workers. Teamwork becomes a priority and hidden strengths emerge, which is exactly what you want for your corporation or organization - teamwork, determination and ingenuity.

A day outdoors facing the emotional and mental rigors of one of these challenging courses will energize your staff and change the way they view the world, while supplying the exhilaration of taking risks, meeting challenges and depending on others.

Mountain GPS Scavenger Hunt

Teamork, bonding and competition rolled together into a unique Mountain Scavenger Hunt with global positioning system (GPS) technology in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the Santa Fe National Forest - or other scenic locations in the area. We add new excitement to a group hike in a beautiful setting by combining fun, physical activity and GPS technology. Each team uses an advanced GPS device to search for hidden spots. At each location they unearth a clue to help them find the next destination. This event encourages teamwork while educating everyone on a new generation of orienteering technology - and some fascinating Rocky Mountain terrain.

A guide accompanies each team on the course. Every participant is a winner, and we place our emphasis on team building, communication and fun!  Each guest receives a themed participation gift (typically an attractive pocket compass/thermometer) to recognize the achievement of completing the hunt.

 

Mural Painting

Just what it says, except that several people are involved in a single act of creativity - which means that some planning, delegation, task assigning - managing - has to evolve within a strictly limited time frame. Guide / advisers will be available.

An interior or exterior wall (depending on weather) is covered with a large paintable surface (one that could be removed and shipped). Ideally, the surface would be at least five feet high and ten feet wide. A subject is chosen - usually local: Native American Ceremonial, Pueblo Village, Franciscan Mission, Fiesta Scene, Santa Fe Plaza, . . . or anything relevant to your group or meeting agenda, Color mixing, layering outlining, fading, blending - all sorts of tricks and techniques can be utilized - and we can provide artistic coaches/judges - as needed.

To make this a competitive event, split into two or more teams and we will create a judging system based on creativity and organization - or on values you choose.

Santa Fe Tours

Native American Journey of Discovery

At a beautiful secluded place outside of Santa Fe, your guide will assist you in discovering the Native American way of viewing life through the Medicine Wheel. These Teachings explore the Seven Cardinal Directions: North, East, South, West, Mother Earth, Father Sky and the Sacred Space within. Learn the subtle meanings of the tribal drums, the heartbeat of Mother Earth, and how each of us connects with the earth and the sky. Guests will conclude the evening by creating their own Medicine Bag as a reminder of the cultural experience and by sharing a traditional native meal prepared by a local Pueblo family.

And, Native American art studio tours, drum-making and cooking classes.

We also offer multi-day itineraries for journeys throughout the New Mexico and the southwest with an emphasis on Native American culture. Please call for details.

See our Native American Specialties page

 

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