Leadership
By engaging in group cooperation, teambuilding activities, and goalsetting, students will forge strong friendships, learn mutual respect, appreciate diversity, deal with peer pressure, practice advanced methods of leadership and gain essential interpersonal skills to help them throughout their lives.
Ethical Leadership
1 class session
Through role-play and discussion, students explore the concepts of morals and ethics, and how both apply to individuals and society. Students learn moral and ethical leadership in various scenarios, including an opportunity to steal cookies and candy. They also learn how an individual’s personal experiences can affect ideals and decision-making. They will expand their understanding of world views and the factors that shape them.
Gilligan's Island
2 class sessions
In this module, students will role-play a scenario of being stranded on a desert island (in the middle of our pond). Since their only hope for survival is group cooperation, they will learn how to work as a team, gather food and water, develop a plan and construct a raft in order to facilitate their “rescue.” Students will learn the importance of decision-making as a group, as well as different engineering principles required for building a raft.
(Season & Weather Dependent.)
Balloon Rescue
1 class session
Students will learn about physics and engineering in this fun module involving a water balloon. Teams of students will answer science related questions, earn money and then purchase materials to create a protective contraption for a water balloon to be dropped from a balcony three stories high. Materials will include: foam, straws, air balloons, rope, plastic shells, blow-up shoes and many more unusual items. Students will discuss the scientific principles of the water balloon drop and the teamwork involved.
Model Government
1 class session
In this introduction to government structure, students learn about the U.S. system of governing. They will discuss leaders that are influential and engage in an environmental debate to gain experience in the arena of decision and policy making. This thought provoking class will equip students to discuss real life issues.
Ground Based Iniatives
1 or 2 class sessions
In this module, students work together and take the initiative to solve a task as a group. Left to their own devices, they learn how to collect information, analyze a situation, create a plan and follow it through. Activities include a field maze game, jump rope and an obstacle course. This module is often used as a prerequisite for the Ropes Course and is a valuable tool to increase leadership and confidence within a group.
Low Ropes Course
1 or 2 class session
In this step of our group building classes, students will continue on their journey to advanced communication skills. Our group activities include balancing on a huge seesaw, moving through a huge spider web, and swinging from one platform to another. With these exercises, students will learn how to work through a series of tasks that require proper spotting and support. By teaching students interpersonal skills that will last a lifetime, this module is an excellent choice to promote group dynamics..
High Ropes Course
2 class sessions
Our most popular activity, the Pali High Ropes Course is a terrific confidence builder. Students challenge themselves and each other as they work to master the catwalk, zip-line, leap of faith, giant swing, team ladder, and many other activities offered on our two unique ropes courses. Students will strengthen their abilities in coordination, balance and teamwork.
Rock Wall
1 class session
Always a favorite, the Pali Rock Wall challenges students to problem-solve as they achieve heights not thought possible on our climbing tower. Students are encouraged to push themselves to their physical limits and complete several exercises of varying degrees of difficulty. This module teaches students self reliance and independence.
Pali Institute’s leadership program provides group team-building and individual problem-solving activities performed on challenge course facilities consisting of open fields and climbing apparatus of various heights. Participants engage in activities requiring physical movements, including but not limited to, climbing, running, walking, skipping, jumping, throwing, twisting, turning, bending, lifting, swinging, and bodily contact. Even under the safest conditions, aspects of the program may be hazardous and a student’s participation may expose them to elements of risk that may include loss of or damage to personal property or bodily injury or death. Risks include, but are not limited to, psychological stress and physical injuries resulting from participation in the above mentioned activities, as well as those resulting from bumping, falling, tripping, pulling, catching, impacting, exertion, sun and element exposure, and insect stings or bites.