Custom Conference Facilitation

Leadership Development at The Banff Centre has a full roster of consultants and faculty members that are available to partner with your planning committee to design and facilitate your conference. These individuals are experts in the field of leadership and facilitation, with the ability to examine your conference objectives and integrate a variety of content and experiential activities to best suit your needs.

If you are interested in having one of our faculty members facilitate a portion of your conference, or you are looking to find a leadership development module that will fit with your conference theme, please contact us for a consultation on finding the best fit for your conference!

Fees: $2,400 per day, negotiated based on the project
Contact: Leadership Development, 1.800.590.9799, leadership@banffcentre.ca

High Ropes Course Challenge

Trust
Risk  
Results

This outdoor option is designed to help participants learn more about the powerful relationship between trust, risk, and results. As the only activity of its kind in Banff National Park, the High Ropes Course was designed for the exclusive use of Banff Centre guests. This stimulating experience encourages participants to step outside their comfort zone, revealing exciting possibilities and unrealized potential. Focused debriefs and discovery encourage learning, application, and links to the workplace. Certified facilitators and technical experts ensure the safety of this activity. At all times, participants are encouraged to choose their own level of participation.

What will your group learn to do together?

• Support and encourage each other
• Gain new appreciation for team members contributions and strengths
• Experience the powerful relationship between trust, risk, and results
• Develop confidence and courage
• Experience the value of effective communication

Be amazed and have fun!
2.5 – 4.5 hours*: $3,000 for up to and including 13 participants. Each additional person is $200.

4.5 – 8 hours*: $3,000 for up to and including 10 participants. Each additional person is $300.
For groups over 30 in size, discounts are available.

*The time suggested is a guideline only, but this option would take a minimum of 2.5 hours. Larger groups may require more time to ensure full participation. Availability of this option is based on availability of facilitator.

If you are looking for a full day of creative team building, ask about combining and linking a number of these options together to suit your needs.

If you are looking for a full day of creative team building, ask about combining and linking a number of these options together to suit your needs.

Orienteering: A Strategic Challenge

Planning
Implementing
Results

This indoor and outdoor activity highlights the value of leveraging the diverse strengths and resources within your team. This fun and complex challenge requires teams to respond to change and ambiguity, while effectively planning and implementing strategy.
The initial planning phase requires teams to develop a strategy to be implemented in the field. During field work, teams apply newly learned orienteering skills including GPS and other technology. This activity is artfully designed to address current and relative challenges your organization is facing. Seasoned facilitators lead and guide debriefs to ensure learning, application, and links to the workplace.

What will your group learn to do together?

• Planning and implementing strategy
• Leveraging team members strengths
• The power of collaboration and effective teamwork
• Develop emergent leadership
• Align strategy and vision
• Develop effective communication
• Learn to challenge assumptions

3 – 4.5 hours*: $3,000 for up to and including 13 participants. Each additional person is $200.

4.5 – 8 hours*: $3,000 for up to and including 10 participants. Each additional person is $300.
For groups over 30 in size, discounts are available.

*The time suggested is a guideline only, but this option would take a minimum of 3 hours. Larger groups may require more time to ensure full participation. Availability of this option is based on availability of facilitator.

If you are looking for a full day of creative team building, ask about combining and linking a number of these options together to suit your needs.

Outdoor Team Challenge

Creativity
Teamwork
Results

These sequential creative problem-solving challenges help teams develop a greater understanding of what it takes to become even more effective. Teams communicate, share and develop ideas, make decisions to creatively solve challenges in an environment of fun and exploration. Activities are carefully designed to meet identified outcomes for the team. These sessions can be delivered inside or outside, depending on the weather. Artful debriefing encourages learning, application, and links to the workplace.

What will your group learn to do together?

• Launch new teams
• Understand the strengths each member brings to the team
• Learn the value of effective communication
• Practice effective teamwork and cooperation
• Practice creative problem-solving
• Develop personal leadership

2.5 – 4.5 hours*: $3,000 for up to and including 13 participants. Each additional person is $200.
4.5 – 8 hours*: $3,000 for up to and including 10 participants. Each additional person is $300.
For groups over 30 in size, discounts are available.

*The time suggested is a guideline only, but this option would take a minimum of 2.5 hours.

Larger groups may require more time to ensure full participation. Availability of this option is based on availability of facilitator.
If you are looking for a full day of creative team building, ask about combining and linking a number of these options together to suit your needs.

Creative Clay: Sculpting Your Team

Explore the underlining structures and principles that make up effective teams. Through the playful medium of clay, participants will explore various elements of “design thinking” to create, re-create, and model their ideal team, and team environment. The session incorporates artwork as symbols or metaphors for helping to better address both challenges and opportunities facing teams today.

What will your group learn to do together?

• Examine new techniques for enhancing team performance
• Increase awareness of how roles, behaviours, and style influence team behaviours
• Identify creative solutions to team challenges

2 – 4 hours*: $1,500
Number of participants: 4 to 20 (larger groups require price estimate)

*The time suggested is a guideline only, but this option would take a minimum of 2 hours. Larger groups may require more time to ensure full participation. Availability of this option is based on availability of facilitator.

If you are looking for a full day of creative team building, ask about combining and linking a number of these options together to suit your needs.

Drumming Up Passionate Teams

This highly interactive hands-on session encourages groups (small and large) to play with a number of percussion instruments and drums as a means for sparking the creative potential and passion of the team. Through the “serious play” of drumming, participants will discover new insights into the importance of deep listening, and fundamental elements of creating dynamic teams – enhancing group connection, cooperation, and collaborative inquiry. Experience with music or musical instruments is not necessary.

What will your group learn to do together?

• Outline and reinforce community within the workplace
• Enhance communication skills through deeper listening
• Identify how to adapt to change in a team environment

2 – 4 hours*: $1,500
Number of participants: 10 to 60 (larger groups require price estimate)

*The time suggested is a guideline only, but this option would take a minimum of 2 hours. Larger groups may require more time to ensure full participation. Availability of this option is based on availability of facilitator.

If you are looking for a full day of creative team building, ask about combining and linking a number of these options together to suit your needs.

Image Explorer –
A tool for leading with vision

Image Explorer is a powerful tool for enhancing team dynamics through meaningful conversations and dialogue. Using hundreds of compelling, insightful, and inspiring images, this session helps teams explore complex organizational challenges by honouring unique group perspectives and building shared understanding, in preparation for making choices and taking action. By posing discussion questions that incorporate the images, the result is a more creative approach to solutions and dynamic conversations.

What will your group learn to do together?

• Enhance communication skills through dialogue
• Identify, understand, and act upon organizational challenges
• Examine complex topics with unique perspectives and curiosity

1 – 3 hours*: $1,500
Number of participants: 4 to 30 (larger groups require price estimate)

*The time suggested is a guideline only, but this option would take a minimum of 1 hour. Larger groups may require more time to ensure full participation. Availability of this option is based on availability of facilitator.

If you are looking for a full day of creative team building, ask about combining and linking a number of these options together to suit your needs.

Leading Teams Creatively –
“Acting” to make a difference

Improvisation tools and techniques can provide an opportunity to practice challenging “real life” patterns. Improvisation provides a “creative container” in which we can practice team development and adapt to change in positive and innovative ways. Participants explore various ways of using narrative, storytelling, and improvisation to increase team members’ capacity for building trust, creative risk-taking, enhanced communication skills, and increased personal presence. This session can be tailored to focus on either individual team members, or at the organizational level.

What will your group learn to do together?

• Build trust and engage in creative risk-taking
• Experience whole-brain thinking and how it relates to leading teams
• Cultivate personal presence – the ability to be centered and aware in each moment of communication
• Apply practical and complementary lessons from the theatre world when leading an organizational change process

2 – 4 hours*: $1,500
5 – 7 hours*: $3,000
Number of participants: 4 to 40 (larger groups require price estimate)

*The time suggested is a guideline only, but this option would take a minimum of 2 hours. Larger groups may require more time to ensure full participation. Availability of this option is based on availability of facilitator.

If you are looking for a full day of creative team building, ask about combining and linking a number of these options together to suit your needs.

Developing Personal Strengths

In this session, we use the Strength Deployment Inventory® (SDI) which measures an individual's value system both when things are going well, and when the person is in conflict. Whereas many other tools measure behaviour, the SDI explores the motivations and values that underlie those behaviours – why we behave the way we do. The SDI® was developed by Dr. Elias H. Porter.

The applications of the SDI are many, including building awareness of self and others, leadership development, team building, conflict management, and dispute resolution or mediation.

This is an excellent tool to help you understand your own motivations, as well as those of your team members – when things are going well, as well as when you are in a conflict situation.

What will your group learn to do together?

• Provide an opportunity for you to explore your own relating style
• Learn to handle conflict through team discussions
• Build more effective and valuable personal relationships

3 – 4 hours*: $1,500
5 – 7 hours*: $2,500

Number of participants: 5 to 25 (larger groups require price estimate)

*The time suggested is a guideline only, but this option would take a minimum of 3 hours. Larger groups may require more time to ensure full participation. Availability of this option is based on availability of facilitator.

If you are looking for a full day of creative team building, ask about combining and linking a number of these options together to suit your needs.

FourSight™ Thinking Profile

FourSight™ is an innovative assessment tool that reveals how people solve problems and approach challenges – and how they can do it better. Used by teams and organizations to boost problem-solving, collaboration, and communication, the FourSight™ Thinking Profile, tool cards, creative exercises, and processes have been validated by years of research and through field testing by users from Fortune 500 companies to not-for-profit organizations. Rooted in the science of creativity, FourSight™ offers a powerful springboard for teams and organizations to discover innovation solutions.

What will your group learn to do together?

• Build more creative and innovative teams
• Train for high level collaboration
• Break barriers to collaboration
• Understand team strengths to achieve better results

3 – 4 hours*: $1,500 plus inventory fee
5 – 7 hours*: $2,500 plus inventory fee
Number of participants: 8 to 30 (larger groups require price estimate)

*The time suggested is a guideline only, but this option would take a minimum of 3 hours. Larger groups may require more time to ensure full participation. Availability of this option is based on availability of facilitator.

If you are looking for a full day of creative team building, ask about combining and linking a number of these options together to suit your needs.