“What I think participants are left with is that deeper insight they have, that leaves them in awe of what they've experienced and what they can accomplish. In future, they can connect to the experience as a reminder of their ability to expand their own capacities to meet new challenges.”
Jim Elzinga – Team Leader - Everest Light
TeamEverest is an interactive multimedia conference program that immerses participants in the true experiences of mountain climbers who have tested themselves in the highest and wildest places on the planet.
TeamEverest provides a compelling experience of what individuals and organizations can gain by facing seemly overwhelming challenges together. In doing so participants find themselves reaching beyond their limitations to achieve what they thought was impossible.
The key to TeamEverest is that while participants are having a good time and being spirited away on an exciting adventure, an adventure that emerges out of their choices and values, they are actually creating their own Everest story, building Storied Ground within your organization.
TeamEverest has been designed to work with organizational issues, to build greater collaboration and to improve alignment among individuals as they strive to reach common objectives.
TeamEverest helps groups recognize and rise to a supreme challenge, thus supporting their joint ownership of an inspiring story of achievement.
TeamEverest can be used as one of an integrated set of strategic interventions to raise the performance of a whole organization. It is thematically and functionally congruent with Storied Ground’s suite of offerings.
TeamEverest will drive leadership messages deep into the organization in a way that is engaging, fun, and memorable.
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TeamEverest’s flexible structure offers a choice of outcomes, decisions, and thematic focus based on the issues the organization is facing. These are the core elements that structure the event:
Costumed Sherpas lead participants into a conference room transformed into Mount Everest Base Camp accompanied by Tibetan Lamas blowing the traditional long horn. The theming is optional and can range from simple wall hangings and table settings to a full transformation of the room and environment with themed ice breaking activities.
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Sets the stage by immersing the participants in the sights and sounds of the trek to base camp.
Before embarking on a hazardous enterprise, we realize we need to find common ground in our vision, mission and values. This dynamic interaction breaks the ice and induces a discovery of powerful collaborative capacities in the group.
After the months of grueling effort have set the stage, the summit team must be selected. Employing a choice of profiling tools, and climbing histories drawn from the experience of actual Everest climbers, participants select, debate and finalize their choice of the best combination of two of their own for the final push to the top.
Wrong. With the summit team at camp five, a crisis arises that calls for clear thinking and discernment. Participants confront their strengths and limitations in facing a key decision under emotional stress and time pressure.
The summit team is within five hundred feet of the summit. It is much later in the day than anticipated. Both the success of the expedition and the lives of the climbers are on the line. This is a decision that calls for clear-headedness and steadfastness in the face of great risk. Should they push on to the summit, bivouac for the night, or return to the relative safety of high camp?
When you reach the summit, you’re only halfway there. The journey isn’t over until heroes return to charge their community with the treasure of their success. There are hazards to face and decisions to make before the story reaches its conclusion.
