Social Constructions
The team builds things to give to people who need them.
What it looks like
A video says in thirty seconds what a page explains in a thousand words: how loud it gets, how much laughing there is, what the hands are doing.
What it is
Teams use real tools to build something that stays and that somebody uses: a space, a piece of equipment, an installation for children and young people. One piece of work already delivered is a climbing wall mounted in a school gym, so that children whose families can’t pay for a membership can do a sport. We bring the material, the equipment and the instructions, and the group does the work.
Something concrete
Would you like to do something concrete for children, or for people in difficulty?
In line with the attention we pay to the social side, we offer a whole range of activities built around environmental and social impact. Among our social team buildings there’s the Farm, a series of ecological activities, and this format: Social Constructions.
Building, with real tools and to every standard required, something genuinely useful and genuinely usable. That’s a team building worthy of a team that means it.
The purpose of Social Constructions is to help children and young people do a sport when their families can’t afford a gym membership. Sport matters for physical development and for health, and it’s also a very good way of channelling energy and building the habit of discipline and of talking to adults and to peers. For young people facing a difficult economic or family situation, that’s where resilience, confidence and a sense of belonging come from. The day after, the team has left behind a structure that will still be in use next year.
Building for sport
One piece of work we’ve already delivered is a climbing wall. Where can something like that be built? In plenty of places: the gym of a school or a community centre, for instance. That way children who have no way of joining a sports club get to do a sport as absorbing as climbing.
We provide everything needed and the instructions on how to proceed, but it’s down to you to do the work and give somebody who needs it a piece of equipment for sport and for enjoyment. And there’s no shortage of enjoyment during the work either. Team spirit comes out of the shared effort and out of knowing you’re doing something good.
The wall can be tried out as soon as it’s up: everyone climbs, and anyone who has never climbed learns right there.
When what surfaces deserves an afterwards
An activity surfaces a great deal about how a team communicates, decides and works together, and sometimes what surfaces deserves more time, more depth and a method. That is where a Team Coaching path can begin: a different road, to be taken only if it is needed, to turn what the day made visible into a new way of working together.
Discover Team Coaching →
Let’s talk about your next team building
You don’t need to have picked a format yet. Tell us what you want your team to take home, how many of you there are and where you’ll be, and we’ll do the rest: within 24 hours you get a considered proposal for your case, with the formats that hold up against your numbers, and what each one leaves the team the day after.
Prefer to talk? +971 50 795 9666 · info @ teambuildingincentive.ae