Healthy Business program activites
Team building activities
| Subject | Duration | Activity | Outcomes |
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| Adventure ropes course includes giant swing and trapeze | 3 hours | Encourages people to extend themselves and to set achievable targets through the support of others. |
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| Strategic navigation | 2 hours | Working from a map, use your planning and team skills in a race against your colleagues. Involves orienteering skills, paddling, climbing, abseiling, and setting up camp. |
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| Dark water | 2 hours | Leaders guide their blindfolded teams in a canoe race to the finish line. |
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| Raft building | 2 hours | Teams plan the construction of a raft, and then build it with materials supplied. Teams race their rafts to the finish line (no paddles!). |
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| Abseiling | 3 hours | Glide down a cliff face with full harness and rope. Suits groups of 15. |
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Initiatives activities
| Subject | Duration | Activity | Outcomes |
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| Vortex | 30 minutes | Using only simple equipment, groups must use their intellect (and body weight!) to build a bridge across the Vortex without losing bodies or equipment. Challenge: To get all the equipment and team members from one side of the vortex to the other side without touching the ground |
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| Time machine | 30 minutes | The Time Machine is a complex series of pipes, planks and crates all joined together with adjustable straps. Challenge: In order to time travel, groups must dismantle their Time Machine and pass each of its component parts, as well as themselves, through the Blue Window Accelerator Force Field, as quickly as possible. Once on the other side, the Time Machine is reconstructed to exacting quality |
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| Stepping stones | 20 minutes | A gentle initiative activity designed to test the mind rather than the body. Each member is given a stone to stand on. Challenge: To have three or four people standing on the right to manoeuvre and stand where three or four people on the left are and visa versa in the quickest time. |
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| Snake pit | 20 minutes | You have become deserted on an island. In order to survive you need to reach the only source of non-contaminated drinking water on the island. Unfortunately for your group, the source of the water is protected by a shallow snake pit. Challenge: Using only the equipment available your group must work together to remove the water source without spilling a drop of the precious water, being bitten by snakes or losing equipment. If equipment is dropped in the pit or any bodily parts touch the pit, the group must return to the starting point. |
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| Spider web | 20 minutes | Challenge: The challenge for the group is to pass through the web, a network of fine strings between two poles, without touching the web. Since the spider is also very smart, it will know when one of the holes in its web has been used and will close it off, preventing anyone else from passing through the same opening. Groups are given a limited amount of time to pass as many people through the web as possible. |
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| Board walking | 20 minutes | Getting an entire team to work in a synchronised manner is a difficult task, which is demonstrated in this task. Challenge: This activity can be successfully completed through effective team work and communication on the board walk. |
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| Waterfall | 20 minutes | This is a fun, challenging activity that requires thinking and cooperation amongst group members. Challenge: To pass two tubes of water along the line from person to person, losing the least amount of water. Tubes start at either end, crossing over in the middle. Two participants must be in contact with the tube at all times |
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| Minefield | 20 minutes | Challenge: In pairs, one person is to be blindfolded. The other person is to use verbal communication to help the blindfolded person travel safely through the minefield. |
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Wellness activites
| Subject | Duration | Activity | Outcomes |
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| 1.6 km walk test | 30 minutes | This is a short test of cardiovascular fitness with a 1.6km walk around the Academy’s athletics track. |
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| General health assessment | 1½ hours | Trained Academy staff will do a number of tests designed to provide an overall measure of general health and physical condition. All scores will be compared to the average population. |
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| Benefits of exercise presentation | 1 hour | This informative lecture uses up-to-date research to illustrate the principles of energy transfer and highlights the importance of regular physical activity for a healthy lifestyle. |
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| Nutrition - Just the facts | 1 hours | A trained dietician presents the basics of good and bad nutrition with a focus on making better food choices during a hectic working lifestyle. |
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| Time management for leisure and work | 1 hour | Race against the clock and other teams in this practical time management activity. This session requires teamwork, communication and effective decision making to achieve the most efficient outcome. |
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| Practical fitness | 1 hour | Make use of our world-class gym facilities to take part in a simple but effective fitness session specifically tailored to your group. |
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| Back care basics | 1½ hours | Presented by the same physiotherapists who look after the Manly Sea Eagles, this practical session helps you understand the importance of caring for your back. |
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