Welcome to GO Adventures
Climbing the Giant Ladder
“GO-Adventures provides opportunities for individuals and groups to participate in high quality team building programs and adventure sports instruction. The goal is a positive experience through a mixture of teamwork, fun and education.
We feel that people learn and develop from overcoming challenges – our programs are designed to give participants enough challenge to stretch their limits, with enough guidance and instruction to expand them.
Over the years, we have seen clients from a variety of backgrounds and populations – from elementary school students to corporate executives. The activities and metaphors we use with a group of high school students will differ from those we employ for a corporate project management team. However, our dedication to providing great service and a program with value and lasting benefit is ever-present. Many clients in the Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC area have benefited from our team building challenges and adventure sports instruction. We invite you to become another satisfied customer.” – Eriq Powers, Founder
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Our Programs
Adventure Team Challenge on the National Mall
GO-AdventureSports specializes in team building and adventure instruction for youth and adults. Our program offerings include:
Team Building
- Portable Team Challenge – on-site or off-site activities that can either be recreational or goal-oriented. For businesses and governmental agencies interested in providing an environment that fosters communication and an opportunity that promotes positive change. We will help open the door – you will choose whether to walk through or not…
- Adventure Team Challenge – for large groups interested in a recreational team building program on a tight budget… Teams are given instruction booklets and sent through a rotation of different team building activities.
- ROPES Course – combining elements of the Portable Team Challenge with additional High Elements, the ROPES Course is a great way for groups to either work on specific goals, or simply enjoy a recreational team building program.
Boy Scouts in the 'Pancake Room'
Boy Scouts in the 'Pancake Room'
Adventure Instruction
- Rock Climbing – top-roping courses teach the basics of the simplest and most popular form of rock climbing – knots, belaying, anchors, and movement.
- Mountain Biking – join our guide on some of the best trails in Maryland for this single-track mountain biking skill building instructional program.
- Wilderness Skills - learn valuable outdoor survival skills in this one or two-day program. Popular topics include – fire-building, water, shelter, preparation and land navigation
- Caving Adventures – beginners and experts alike will be challenged as we explore the wild caves of West Virginia, where ancient stalactites and stalagmites add to the challenge and wonder of the narrow tunnels and wide open caverns.
- Adventure Weekend – a multi-day team building and instructional event for teams of up to 14 participants. Each day is packed with adventure training opportunities (choose from a combination of rock climbing, caving, mountain biking, canoeing, and via ferrata), and each experience requires significant commitment from the members of the group. Our team of expert guides will give you the skills you need to accomplish every challenge.
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What We’ve Been Working on for 2010…
NEXTeams - The NEXT Step in Team Development
In our continuing efforts to create engaging and relevant team building activities for our clients, we are launching NEXTeams Team Development – www.nexteams.com – which will focus on a long-view, goals-driven approach to team development and facilitation. Combining experiential education and traditional team building activities with professional facilitation for meetings and strategic planning sessions, the NEXTeams Process of Team Development will start where other team building programs leave off.
A couple of cross-over events that will be shared by GO-AdventureSports and NEXTeams include:
- RACE Day Team Builder – An exciting and competitive event for smaller groups, RACE Day enhances teamwork through the creation of a Soapbox Derby Racer. Working in teams of 2 to 4 participants, your group will compete to build, brand and race their vehicle, producing their creation on time/under budget and, with a little luck, taking the trophy home!
- Team Project Events (TPEs) – An opportunity for groups and teams to participate in a combination of traditional team building activities and a community service project. Projects have included: Building a ropes course element at a local camp, fence building at a local community farm, and planning and running an adventure race at a local elementary school. How will you choose to “Pay it Forward?”
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Our Clients
Over the years we have worked with hundreds of groups, from individuals out for a day of climbing to 500 participants at a corporate retreat. Regardless of the background of our clients, the outcome is positive change through shared experience.
Who can benefit from our team building, adventure sports, and corporate event programs:
- School groups
- Adults
- Not-for-profit groups
- Scouts
- Camps
- Religious groups
- Corporations
- Small businesses
- Government agencies
- Sports teams
- Fraternities and sororities
- Birthday parties
- And more
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GO Adventure Sports is Growing Up
In 2001, GO-AdventureSports opened its doors and began offering its recreational team building and adventure instruction programs to youth and adults in the Washington, DC area. Over the years and through working with thousands of clients, we have come to realize that recreational team building and introductory level adventure instruction offer only a small taste of the potential benefit that experiential training can provide.
As time has passed, we have grown and evolved as professionals in our industry, and our interests and experience has grown with us. Today, our expertise has expanded to include the professional facilitation. With this new additions to our repertoire coupled with a strong desire to affect positive change within organizations, we are introducing our new Team Development company – NEXTeams – whose mission is to provide professional facilitation services to organizations in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Please see our newly re-designed informational sites at www.go-adventuresports.com (recreational team building and adventure instruction) and www.nexteams.com (professional facilitation and team development), and we look forward to working with your organization in 2010 and beyond.
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