Teambuilding Facilitation

Catalog description

Learn leadership and teambuilding skills to facilitate group dynamics and adventure, team activities. RPTM 230 Teambuilding Facilitation (3)Through hands-on experience, discussion, and observation students will develop a sound background to the basics of teambuilding. This course will focus on the philosophy of team activities and experiential education, and the skills required to lead and facilitate teambuilding events. In addition to learning skills, the students will be asked to apply their knowledge of teambuilding to lead actual activities for their peers. Finally, students will be exposed to information about career opportunities in the field of teambuilding and adventure education. Main topics include: An introduction to teambuilding philosophy and its relation to the outdoor education field. General concepts to be covered include: challenge by choice, full value contracts, the experiential learning cycle and the adventure wave. Activity understanding to include icebreakers, problem solving activities and trust events; Programming and activity sequencing; Leadership skills and the role of the facilitator; Stages of group development; Debriefing activities, transfer of learning and metaphoric transfer; Activity safety: emotional and physical; Risk Management and the elements of good judgment; Group assessment and program creation; Program evaluation. This course is one of the selections for RPTM majors in the adventure-based programming emphasis of the Outdoor Recreation Option. Students in other majors are welcome after RPTM majors have scheduled.