The Boiler Room is a great place to reward your folks with some fun.
It’s also an ideal place to get serious and explore issues related
to team and organizational development. By temporarily shedding job
titles and real world responsibilities, your people can interact freely
and fully engage to achieve group goals. |
The Boiler Room Climbing Gym is the experiential division of Breakthrough Associates Incorporated—we have a lot of experience with team dynamics, team development, conflict transformation, and issue facilitation. We design and facilitate both experiential and conceptual activities that encourage and support transformative processes for groups or organizations.
The Boiler Room is a great metaphor for these transformative processes…
Organizations are places where people combine their energy, ideas and talents with resources to accomplish goals. A by-product of this interaction is “steam”—a source of energy that can propel people towards their goal… or away from it. Steam can take the form of enthusiasm, drive, excitement, and commitment…or it can take the form of frustration, confusion, anger and opposition… it depends how well the steam is understood and managed.
That’s where the Boiler Room comes in. It’s a place where “steam” can be safely analyzed, managed, and transformed into productive energy. Breakthrough Associates will help you and your folks learn how to convert the “steam” in your organization into opportunities for productivity and understanding.
All of our workshops and activities are based on the principles of experiential learning. Experiential learning is the long way of saying learning by doing. Research shows that participants retain 80% of the content when learning includes experiential activities. Compare this with a typical 30% retention rate from traditional “didactic” instruction.
The experiential approach allows participants to practice and reflect on new skills and behaviours in a safe and structured environment before trying to implement abstract concepts back at the workplace. It also allows people to draw on a lifetime of their own experience and discover (or re-discover) latent knowledge, skills, and talents.
Believe it or not, we have a serious side. We focus on building the relational skills needed for positive and productive human interaction in organizations. We’ll help you examine and talk about team issues, work styles, and goal achievement objectively. You’ll gain new insights about human dynamics within your organization. We offer events that include experiential challenges and wall climbing at The Boiler Room or more conventional workshops at the venue of your choice.
Team Development: We support your teams throughout the stages of team development. Our experiential approach makes learning relevant and enjoyable. Provide your folks with the teamwork theory and practice they need to maximize their competence.
Team Dynamics: How do the unique talents, personalities, and goals of individuals combine to create the particular character and culture of your group, team or organization? We use instruments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, Temperament Theory, and Jungian Type to help your folks better understand each other and their contributions to achieving organizational goals.
Meeting Facilitation: Sometimes organizations need a neutral Third Party to help them raise, understand, and discuss difficult issues. Sometimes they just need some help organizing an appropriate agenda and/or recording and reporting discussions and plans. We offer skilled facilitators and certified Third Party Neutrals who understand planning processes and know how to get people talking for productive collaboration.
Conflict Transformation: Our goal is to help as many people as possible become conflict-resolving persons within organizations. Conflict is a natural by-product of human interaction. It’s an inevitable and often healthy manifestation of competing ideas, interests, and energies. A conflict-resolving person approaches problems with a healthy attitude and understands how to tap into the new growth and opportunities that under-lie existing or potential conflicts. We offer Conflict Resolution services and education.
Put a unique twist on your company party or reward your teams with some recreation time at the Boiler Room. Climbing is a highly social recreational activity that depends on interaction and encouragement between those on the wall and those on the ground. Trust and teamwork emerge naturally as people challenge themselves to give it a try. For very special events, we can set up our Death Plunge (don’t worry, it’s just a giant swing!) or our Giant's Ladder to thrill your folks. Come on in and climb… your folks will leave with a sense of personal accomplishment and a renewed appreciation for challenge and teamwork. Our group discounts and no-hassle booking process make it easy and economical.
| Total | |
| Admission | $10.00 |
| Harness Rental | $2.50 |
| Climbing Shoe Rental (optional but recommended) |
$3.50 |
Climbers under 18 require parent's signature on our Consent Form.
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for a copy of the Consent Form.
In addition to the per person group rates, a program fee applies to half-day or full day experiential learning events held at the Boiler Room. These fees can vary from $200 - $2,000 depending on the complexity and the duration of the events we design. Please contact Cathy Wills for more information or request a quote at cathy@boilerroom.ca.
For information about, or to book climbing time at the Boiler Room Climbing Gym, please phone 613-549-0520.
For information about, or to book an organizational learning and development workshop please phone Cathy Wills at 613-549-0520 or email cathy@boilerroom.ca.