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.

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.

Community Puzzle
1 Class Session
In this teambuilding activity, students create a dynamic puzzle by adding pieces with their personal thoughts on what it means to work as a team. Students will also document their personal growth during their time at Pali. This is a great activity that can be taken back to the school and the classroom as a learning and development tool for the rest of the year. Community Puzzle is a wonderful evening or closing leadership class.

Ground Based Initiatives

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 Sessions
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, Vertical Playpen, Leap of Faith, Giant’s Ladder and many other activities offered on our two unique high ropes courses. Students will strengthen their abilities in coordination, balance and teamwork.

Rock Wall
1 Class Session
Another 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.

Quad Zip Lines
2 Class Sessions
Experience Pali Institute like never before. Soar over Lost Cabin Canyon on Pali's 700 foot quad zip lines. Start off your experience by climbing our 30 foot cargo net to the take-off platform. From the take-off platform, zip over 700 feet and enjoy the exhilarating ride, ending at the landing platform. This is one activity you will not forget, leaving you saying WOW!
The Quad Zip Lines are available for 7th graders and above. There is an additional cost of $10 per student for the Quad Zip Lines.