The Big Book of Team Building Activities
2016 Edition
Entertainment
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Creativity
Team Spirit
Discovery
Ice Breakers
planitswiss.com
Introduction
Personal relations, communication as well as interaction within your team have become more
and more important. Optimize the outcome of your event or conference, increase team spirit and
create unforgettable moments with planitswiss!
Team building activities push participants to a whole
new level. You will find numerous interesting activities
in this brochure, but for any further request please do
not hesitate to contact us.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
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Ice Breakers
1 4
Discovery
1 8
Team Spirit Activities
1 10
Develop Your Creativity
1 18
Entertainment
1 22
Structure Building
1 26
Public Speaking
1 30
Sport Activities
1 32
Extreme Days
1 34
Well-Being
1 36
Photo Activities
1 38
Arts Workshop
1 40
Snow Adventures
1 42
Contact Us
1 46
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“The basic building block of good team building is for a leader to promote the feeling that every
human being is unique and adds value.”
Author Unknown
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Ice Breakers
This activity is a unifying program made up of several successive workshops in the shape
of challenges. After a short briefing and handing out of badges, the program will start with
one or two games done altogether, e.g. the circle of birthdays, the magic rectangle.
Singing Lesson & Song Writing
The groups will then carry out a series of fun games representing team situations with
objectives and rules. These games are fun and suitable for all. Each 10 to 30 minutes’ game
ends with an oral or written debrief.
Main benefit for the company: Participants will have fun together leading to better team
thinking.
3h
20 to 200
Laughter Seminar
Practice breathing and laughing exercises that will bring tears of joy to your eyes and
fresh air into your lungs. This amazingly fun and stress-relieving activity is the ideal option
to energize yourself before or after a long conference day. Moreover, we will teach you
how to use this approach in any uncomfortable situations you might encounter in your
everyday life. Challenge your team to go beyond their limits and feel comfortable with
each other.
Main benefit for the company: Laughter seminars are very effective to stimulate the process
of forming a team and are the ultimate instrument of relaxation.
0.5h to 1.5h
30 to 250
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Ice Breakers
Team Building Experience
Ice Breakers
Drums
Creating music together with drumming, singing or body percussion. Participants listen to,
learn from and support each other. The result: team unity and a strong feeling of personal
and collective achievement.
Each participant will have his own djembe in order to play as a group, led by a team of
professionals.
Main benefit for the company: Following this activity, cohesion within the group will be
stronger and therefore the atmosphere in the company will be better as well.
1h to 1.5h
30 to 250
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Use your imagination to create and sing a song as a group, using known or invented
soundtrack. Through original and fun methods, you will learn different singing techniques
that will reinforce the group’s team spirit, making it more cohesive and powerful. You will
get to know your own voice and measure the power it can have on other people.
Main benefit for the company: This activity will bring confidence and team spirit, an ideal
mix to boost a team that is losing energy.
0.5 to 1day
30 to 200
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Ice Breakers
Singing Lesson & Song Writing
Discovery
“Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.”
Katzenbach & Smith
Let’s Go Stargazing!
Main benefit for the company: Together you will discover a whole new world while working
on a common project where the theme is unknown to most - ideal for identifying future
company leaders.
1h to 2h
10 to 50
Operation Freddy – Orientation Course
A game taken out into the city with Freddy the Gnome. Freddy persuades the teams
to take on the maddest of missions. Here the teams solve multi-choice questions, both
cultural and games, take photographs of the mission and themselves, creating videos
based on the theme given by Freddy.
This game is easily remodeled to suit your ideas, while integrating into it the various
challenges with which the company is faced.
Main benefit to the company: The participants must show their ability to react, their creativity
and their work in a team. A most unusual orientation course, which will be remembered
for years to come.
2h or more
20 to 100
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Discovery
Share an unforgettable evening with colleagues under a starry night-sky to the sound of
a guitar and the glow of a campfire. Then go on a treasure hunt amongst the different
constellations filling the sky above you and discover the stars that make up the constellations.
Together, you will learn how to read a sky-map or star-chart and use astronomical
equipment. You can also play a team game created by NASA where participants step
into an astronaut’s shoes and work out how to survive in the space-ship’s cockpit.
Team Spirit Activities
“You don’t win with the best talent - you win with the five players who are able to play well together.”
Sportscaster
Winter Olympic Games
Participants will form small groups and go through a series of activities where they will be
challenged on their physical skills, balance and agility or knowledge skills to collect points
and win the game.
Example of games: Human Curling, Funride, Snow Hockey etc.
Main benefit for the company: A range of funny snow and other games make this Olympic
competition an unforgettable experience for your group.
Curling
An unusual and little known game: discover curling and learn how to sweep the track
and throw the stone. This sport is played in teams of 4, each with an experienced coach
who will teach you the basics and show you various tricks to help you win. Curling is truly
an interactive team building game, calling upon a wide range of expertise: leadership,
communication and confidence.
Main benefit for the company: This activity will reinforce the bonds in your team and will
improve the way a group of people work together and communicate with one another.
1h to 3h
10 to 30
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Team Spirit
2h to 0.5 day 20 to 60
Top Chef Challenge - Cooking Workshop
You will receive all the utensils and ingredients to bake pastries or cook a delicious menu
for yourself and/or the other teams. Renowned chefs will advise and assist you during this
activity. If you so wish it, this workshop can be turned into a competition, with time and
budget constraints... as well as a tasting jury!
Main benefit for the company: Cooking will bring the participants together in a real sharing
moment. They will learn to surpass themselves and create their chosen menu.
Team Spirit
2h to 0.5 day
20 to 100
Ice Hockey Simulator
What does it entail? Come and try out Ice Hockey! You have never put on ice skates?
Not to worry, this simulator on synthetic ice is open to all. Professionals will be available to
teach you the basics of Hockey, using several short exercises. A really unusual and original
sporting activity, to be shared in small groups.
Main benefit for the company: The participants will find themselves slipping into the skin of
professional players, and discover the pleasure of playing Ice Hockey. This activity brings
together precision, speed and team spirit.
1h to 2h
10 to 20
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Create Your Own Professionally Recorded Song
Enter into the world of music behind the scenes of a professional recording studio.
In this team building session you will have the possibility of becoming an artist and of
creating your own song. At the end of the day you will leave with an original CD recording
as a lasting memory.
Main benefit for the company: Discover how to write, create and place words and ideas,
to find your own voice ... these are some of the viewpoints your participants will learn to
deal with. See your colleagues from a totally new angle and be pleasantly surprised at
the results.
10 to 50
Golf Simulator
Share with your colleagues an experience very different from day-to-day office work, and
learn the basics of playing golf by using this simulator. Working with professional golfers,
you will learn to control your swing and improve on your approach to the ball on the
fairway. After the session in the simulator, a short game could be organized between the
participants.
Main benefit for the company: Golf is a sport which requires a great deal of concentration
and the use of strategy. The Golf Simulator will analyze the participants’ game and show
them how to continually improve while playing.
2h to 0.5 day
10 to 40
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Team Spirit
0.5 day
Team Spirit
A Minute To Win
A series of challenges using household items in a maximum time of 60 seconds. Think you
can do it? Each team member will have to react quickly and the right person will have to
be chosen to meet the challenges.
Main benefit for the company: Participants will learn how to encourage and help each
other.
1h to 1.5h
20 to 80
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Challenge your 5 senses in various workshops. This activity stimulates not only your
senses but creates interaction within the group. A real fun and interactive activity that
focuses on team spirit.
A short version can be useful to revitalize a conference or event.
Main benefit for the company: This game will revive team spirit and revitalize cohesion
within the company
1h to 1.5h
20 to 200
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Team Spirit
5 Senses
Jeopardy
Teams compete in a revisited version of Jeopardy, the famous TV game show created
in the USA in 1964. Teams will choose the categories and answer questions as quickly as
possible. The game can be fully customized according to the inclination of the company.
Main benefit for the company: An unusual game that will transform the group into a real
team and bring a spirit of competition among participants.
Team Spirit
1h to 1.5h
20 to 150
Mini Olympics
Survival of the fittest! This is the ideal activity to get energized after long periods of sitting.
Challenge your physical and mental skills by rotating through different activities in order
to win the Olympics. Mini Olympics is a team building program full of uplifting exercises
designed to build camaraderie among coworkers.
Main benefit for the company: An outdoor activity that will push participants to their
physical limits for their team.
1.5h to 3h
20 to 80
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Carnival Activities
For your end-of-the-year party, organize a carnival in order to develop team spirit and
ensure good cohesion between colleagues. Create your own carnival by selecting from
our fun and entertaining activities:
Skill games: Dexterity, precision and fun: darts, soap board, penalty, can knockdown, etc.
Strength games: Challenge yourself and develop a competitive spirit: tug-of-war, inflatable
sumo wrestling, etc.
Brain teasers: Stretch your brain with individual challenges and develop competitive spirit:
the last match, the raft, etc.
Main benefit for the company: Organizing a carnival allows colleagues to get to know
each other better and simply to have a good time together.
0.5 to 1day
50 to 500
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Team Spirit
The big games: Come together through a special game. Energize yourself and give true
rhythm to the fair: potato sack race, lemon race, giant football game, etc.
Develop Your Creativity
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality
overcomes everything.”
George Lois
Company Illustration
Do you want to illustrate the new vision taken by your company during a meeting or
a seminar? Call in a designer to help you in this task. Small groups of the participants
will discuss words which could describe the new company image and will offer them to
the professional artist, who will then make them into a picture for each group. Finally a
collective illustration will be created taking into account the suggestions from each group.
Main benefit for the company: This kind of team building is a real deliberative and creative
group session. Everyone can contribute to a richer final picture.
0.5 day
10 to 30
Create Your Own Advertising
Main benefit for the company: Emphasize the creativity and motivation of your colleagues,
all the while strengthening their team spirit and encouraging exchanges, contemplation
and collective performance, all within an allotted time, in a defined style and space.
0.5 day to 1 day 10 to 100
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Creativity
Take your colleagues into the frenzied and exciting world of advertising. One or more
themes will be given to your groups. With guidance from experts in all the steps of its
realization, the participants will create an advertising film which will be of a standard to
match those winners of the biggest advertising festivals. Accessories will be made available
to everyone so that they can really take on their characters and then.... “roll the cameras!“.
Magazine Cover
Creativity
Participants will be asked to create a magazine cover that reflects the main points of the
day. Team spirit, solidarity and a large dose of creativity are necessary to carry out this
group task.
Main benefit for the company: Working in a group where everyone has just had the
same experience, and expressing this through images allows participants to realize that
perception is different for everyone. They will therefore get to know each other better and
be open to listen to what others have to say.
1h to 2h
20 to 250
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Graffiti
Main benefit for the company: Each team has the opportunity to work together and express
their vision by pushing the limits of their creativity.
0.5h to 2h
20 to 100
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Creativity
Express your creativity during this initiation to graffiti. This unique and fun activity will allow
amateur urban artists to give free rein to their creativity. Participants will design a fresco in
accordance with the logo and colours of your company and learn the different techniques
and basics of this art.
Entertainment
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual
accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain
uncommon results.”
Andrew Carnegie
Musical Quiz
Using popular songs or a pre-defined theme, the Disc Jockey will test your musical
knowledge and challenge your reactivity. And that will have to be good!
This activity is ideal for entertaining a seminar or a company evening. In either small groups
or one large group, with buzzer buttons to push and with a master of ceremonies, all kinds
of variations are available to spice up your evening.
Main benefit for the company: This playful and competitive activity will enliven your
colleagues and they will enjoy competing using their musical knowledge.colleagues and
they will enjoy competing using their musical knowledge.
1h to 2h
15 to 200
Karaoke
Who has never dreamt for even a moment of being a famous singer, or the center of
attention in a major production? Here we offer you the possibility of participating in a
singing challenge, before a jury, which will liven up the evening.
Split up into several teams, the participating groups will choose a song, which they will
present to the gathering, but also to a ruthless jury. The finale will be the stand-off between
the two best teams.
1h to 3h
20 to 200
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Entertainment
Main benefit for the company: Emphasize the creativity and motivation of your colleagues,
all the while strengthening their team spirit and encouraging exchanges, contemplation
and collective performance, all within an allotted time, in a defined style and space.
Wii Challenge – Video Game Challenge
Maybe you have already played video games with your family or friends? Or perhaps you
have never tried it? Whether you are an initiate or a novice, you can easily take part in
our Wii Challenge. We will make up several teams, who, working at different screens, will
compete at golf, tennis or go-karting....
Main benefit for the company: This will be ideal for boosting your teams and enlivening
your events, be they a cocktail party, a team building session or a company evening.
Entertainment
1h to 3h
10 to 30
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Old-Fashioned Wooden Games
In pairs or trios, participants will practice their skills with these old-fashioned wooden games
and their groups will challenge each other. Because the games call for skill, practice,
thinking and some luck, it is ideal for a gently competitive environment.
Main benefit for the company: Many of the games which have been forgotten today,
require a great deal of thought and concentration. This activity will help your group enjoy
an agreeable moment together.
10 to 50
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Entertainment
1h to 3h
Structure Building
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
Henry Ford
Building
Build Your Own Sledge
Using screws, saws, planks, ropes, belts and buckles, each group has to build their own
sledge, on which everyone in the group can ride. At the end of the project, the teams will
compete against each other in a timed race.
Main benefit for the Company: A team building project which will require first and foremost
creativity and efficient communication within the group.
2h to 3h
15 to 50
Ice Sculpture Workshop
This workshop is an exciting activity that is both creative, challenging and unique. One
large block of ice and various tools will permit you to live the sensation of being an artist!
The participants will together carve into the block of ice and create their own amazing
sculpture, life-size! This amazing team event will result in the creation of a stunning,
spectacular and very personal work of art.
Main benefit for the company: An excellent team building exercise to improve creativity
and communication.
2h to 3h
10 to 30
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Building
Build An Igloo
Learn the correct way to build an igloo, using snow, block by block. Participants will create
their accommodation in the Inuit (Eskimo) tradition. Your efforts will be rewarded by having
a fondue served to you inside the igloo and you can also take the unique opportunity to
sleep in the igloo!
Main benefit for the company: In order to create an igloo which functions and is solid, the
participants will need to particularly exercise organization, team discussion and efficiency
in order to achieve their goal.
1h to 3h
10 to 30
Miniature Golf Course
This activity is perfect for creating a group project. It requires team members to work
together on the concept, construction, theme and rules of their mini golf course.
Main benefit for the company: Creating a group project from A to Z by mixing different
profiles will enable participants to learn how to cooperate better on future company
work.
1.5h to 3h
20 to 100
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Building
Tower Time
Use your team members’ skills and win the brick tower-building competition. In this game,
a job description is created for each participant to define their precise role. This project
will test your ability to collaborate, discuss, trade and sell within your team and with your
competitors in order to win.
Main benefit for the company: This strategy game will involve the presentation of a slice
of life within a company. The participants will learn to get into the character required for
various posts and thus understand the importance of communication within a company.
2h to 0.5 day
15 to 150
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Public Speaking
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.”
Doug Floyd
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Learn the art of expression and master the essential elements of public speaking:
breathing, rhythm, enunciation, tone, repartee, presence and gestures. Using different
exercises, you will improve your oral eloquence and leave with new skills to use in your
daily lives. Together you will learn to listen and interact with each other.
Main benefit for the company: Your employees will learn together to improve their
communication and verbal fluency, so they will encourage listening and cooperation in
business with their colleagues.
0.5 to 1 day
5 to 12
Horse Coaching
Become aware of the importance of non-verbal language. Learn to adapt your behavior
and the way you communicate with others. A horse does not understand words, but it
can understand perfectly well the message that one gives it. A horse is a real mirror and
each person must be ready to face their potential and their limits.
“Words represent only 10% of human language, the horse receives the remaining 90%”
Main benefit for the company: Through this activity, you will develop and progressively
reveal each participant’s potential. Moreover, they will become aware of the important
role of non-verbal communication in business.
0.5 to 1 day
5 to 10
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Public Speaking
Improvisational Theater
Sport Activities
“Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.”
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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Disc Golf
Discover a new activity that is really taking off! Using the same principle as golf, each
participant will have different frisbees, e.g. driver, putter, and will have to aim for a fixed
basket. Share fun and friendly moments while discovering something new together.
0.5 to 1 day
Sport Activities
Main benefit for the company: Participating in a sport totally unknown by all participants
encourages the development of teamwork and mutual support.
10 to 25
Sailing
Feel the wind and freedom on Lake Geneva! We will give you instructions on how to
navigate your small boat. Who will master the know-how, team spirit and techniques to
win the regatta in the end?
Each participant will have a defined role and task, so it will be essential for the entire team
to work together.
Main benefit for the company: Participants will leave with a new vision of teamwork. They
will realize the importance of each individual in order to bring a common project to fruition.
3h to 1 day
10 to 20
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Extreme Days
“Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.”
Katzenbach & Smith
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Trekking and Sailing
From the mountains to the lake. Experience a day like no other! Start with a trek in the
mountains and finish with sailing on the lake in the afternoon. View some of the most
beautiful places in the country and learn new skills as a group.
Main outcome provided to the company: Spend the day in the nature, away from the
office environment. This activity allows participants to relax, have fun and to get to know
each other better.
10 to 50
Hot Air Balloon and Water Skiing
From the sky to the lake. Discover the magnificient scenery from the sky in a hot air balloon,
then explore the lake by water skiing. These two activities will show you the country like
you’ve never seen it before. In teams, this experience will be unforgettable.
Main outcome provided to the company: A day spent outdoor to appreciate the nature
and tranquility. This activity allows participants to relax, have fun and to get to know each
other better.
1 day
10 to 20
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Extreme Days
1 day
Public
Well-Being
Speaking
“All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.”
Alexis Carrel
Tibetan Yoga – Personal Development
Tibetan yoga will stimulate your body and mind to create a harmony within yourself and
between colleagues. Three types of yoga can be offered, Lu Jong, Tog Chöd and Kum
Nye. Each of these will hold specific virtues and let you discover an ancient practice. Relax
and enjoy this new and unique activity.
Main benefit for the company: Finding a moment where employees can relax together is
not always easy. Thanks to yoga, the group will be in a new dimension by being in harmony
with their colleagues.
1h to 2h
10 to 30
Introduction To Japanese Martial Arts
Main benefit for the company: This activity will develop leadership and bring a different
and innovative approach to management. Participants will develop a combative attitude
when faced with a problem and it will help them watch over their own behavior towards
colleagues.
1h to 3h
10 to 30
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Well-Being
Learn about Japanese martial arts and develop your mental and physical potential.
Martial arts will enable you to develop the three pillars of this ancestral art: health, wellbeing and efficiency.
Photo Activities
“No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination, a person can
overcome anything.”
B. Dodge
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Photo Novella
Create a photo storyboard using the theme of the event. Participants will be given different
roles, e.g. actors, photographers, writers and editors. The final story can be projected
during dinner or a meeting. The same concept can be used to create a film. Make the
memories of the day come to life with this activity.
Main benefit for the company: Participants will leave with a desire to create together.
They will also understand the importance of teamwork and how to work together.
2.5h to 3h
20 to 150
Photo Rally
Each team will be given old photographs; you will have to find where they were taken
and then create a present day shot. In this way, you will be able to trace history and visit
important places in the city. Prizes will be given to the best shots at the end of the day.
1h to 2h
10 to 50
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Photo Activities
Main benefit for the company: Discovering a city in a different light and taking a fresh look
at a place that is already familiar. This will enable participants to assess things differently.
Arts Workshop
“Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision. The ability to direct individual
accomplishment towards organizational objectives.”
Andrew 40
Carnegie
Arts Workshop
Pottery Workshop
Develop your creativity and sense of touch while working with clay and using a real
potter’s wheel. Give free reign to your creativity and enter a potter’s world. Patience,
perseverance and the ability to remain calm will be needed to master the art of the
wheel; your movements will need to be precise and thorough in order to give final shape
to your masterpiece.
Main benefit for the company: Participants will have to be persistent and learn how to be
patient when facing a difficult task.
0.5 to 1 day
8 to 15
Visual Arts Workshop
Create an amazing mural thanks to the visual arts workshop: etching, watercolors,
charcoal, pastels and Chinese ink. Discover various ancient arts and bring out the artist
in you.
You will learn different techniques and be able to choose the one that speaks to you in
order to create a unique mural. Use your imagination and creativity in a new way. Put
everything together at the end to make a mural that will reflect your company.
Main benefit for the company: Perception is often different from the objective of artistic
expression. Through this workshop, participants will learn to be closer to their perception.
2h to 1 day
8 to 15
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Snow Adventures
“Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
Author Unknow
Discover the pleasure of being on skis and being towed by a horse. Ski Joëring is a
sensational and unique experience, combining skiing, speed, and using reins to control
the horse which is towing you. This activity is accessible to all, and the speed is adapted
to the skier’s level.
Main benefit for the company: Share a special moment of sport and discovery.
1h to 2h
10 to 20
Dog Sledding
Share an exceptional outing on a dog-sleigh, pulled along by magnificent huskies,
surrounded by scenery which will take your breath away. The participants will be amazed
at the magical, almost instinctive, relationship between man and animal.
The pleasure the dogs take in participating in this activity makes for an unforgettable
experience, a moment of contact and communication which will remain in your memory.
Main benefit for the company: You will be giving your colleagues an out of this world,
magical experience.
2h to 0.5 day
10 to 20
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Adventures
Ski Joëring (Horse-Drawn Skiing)
Yooner Sledging (Karting In The Snow)
Adventures
Slide down the ski-run on a Yooner and from the very first corner, discover new and more
surprising sensations than on a regular sledge. The Yooner is modern, light, easy to handle
and comfortable. Test this Yooner sledge, with its seat at 20 cm above the snow, just like
a snow go-kart, and say yes with pleasure, to this amazing new invitation to slide over the
snow.
Main benefit for the company: A great moment of shared fun and discovery.
1h to 3h
20 to 50
Snowshoes Hikes
After some basic instructions and once everyone has their snowshoes on, the team marches
off across an enchanted winter wonderland of untouched snowfields, discovering frozen
lakes and frost-covered fir trees. Our guides know the region well and will show you some
of the most beautiful parts, where the team can enjoy the peace of unspoilt nature.
Main benefit for the company: This project will give all the participants the opportunity
to benefit from a breath of fresh air in the great outdoors, to get away from everything,
including the stress of the office.
2h to 1 day
10 to 50
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Enjoy a leisurely walk across a glacier over the eternal snows and up to the summit, in
the care of professional guides. Roped up and equipped with the adequate footwear,
climbing belts and ice picks, you will cross over the glacier and its crevasses. Once you
reach the summit, you can enjoy a glass of white wine and the amazing view of the
mountains surrounding you.
Main benefit for the company: : The participants will learn to push beyond their limits,
which will bring them enormous satisfaction and success to the whole team on arriving at
the summit.
1 day
10 to 40
Sledge Run
A pastime as old as the hills, the humble sledge is still fun to ride at any age. Sledging is
perfect for spending those special group moments together. It can also be done at night,
by torch-light
Main benefit for the company: This is an activity which combines discovery of something
new and of each other, the sensation of speed, working together and relaxation.
1h to 2h
10 to 50
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Adventures
Glacier Hikes
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