Desert Training
The team takes on a day in the desert.
What it looks like
Fifty-five seconds in the desert: the dunes, the camp, the team finding its bearings.
What it is
A full day deep in the desert, surrounded by the landscape, with challenges built on orienteering and survival. The team crosses the terrain on foot, by camel or in a quad. The conditions are part of the exercise: high heat by day, cold at night, few comforts. Getting through them depends on how far the group can lean on itself.
A way of exploring a culture, finding new dimensions and discovering a landscape in a way that isn’t touring. An adventure at the edge of extreme sport, Desert Training puts a team’s endurance and its nerve to the test.
Our expert: Max Calderan
On our desert adventures we’re accompanied by experienced desert guides. We crossed the Sinai Desert with Max Mahdi Calderan, the renowned Italian extreme explorer and the author of books on desert training. Calderan has crossed large stretches of desert on foot, at a run, resting only in sleep cycles of twenty to twenty-five minutes.
His secret? Using mental strength, drawing on everything the human body and mind are capable of. Our bodies hide capacities and reserves we don’t believe possible, and they show themselves precisely in extreme conditions. Running in the desert, between very high temperatures by day and low ones at night, with almost no food and almost no rest, is exactly the occasion for everything the body can do to come out.
What we take from Max Calderan is the method rather than the records. Our desert coaches work on exactly that, bringing a team to use its physical and mental reserves, handle a difficult situation and adapt to an extreme environment. The desert turns into a classroom with no walls.
What happens on a Desert Training
Crossing the desert as a team, on foot, by camel or in a quad, is a very good way to live through something you don’t forget and to build a team spirit that lasts. Relying on each other and trusting the others is what gets you through the conditions. This kind of day sorts out communication problems, strengthens leadership and works on problem solving and decision making better than most corporate events manage. The day after, the group has been somewhere it couldn’t have got to one person at a time.
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.
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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.
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