The Beacon Teambuilding Leadership Workshop was held at Savage Wilderness in Sagana on Saturday 13 April 2019.
The Beacon Leadership Workshop at Savage Wilderness in Sagana was held on 13th April 2019. This was the fourth workshop in a series of four, and was titled ‘Empowering Teams’.
Scholars, Candidates, and Beacon Staff boarded two buses from Sarit Centre in Nairobi on Saturday morning, departing at about 7:00 AM. On the way to Sagana, each bus had ice-breaker games guided by the Savage Wilderness team, led by Renson Muchuku.
The group arrived at the venue and kicked off activities at 9:30am, having first had a hydration and snack break. This was followed by icebreaker games, including a Tug of War, Longest Human Chain, and Helium Sticks. There was then a theory session, facilitated by Renson, based on the NOBEL acronym which stands for:
Nurturing team members
Opening up to new ideas
Boundary-setting
Encouragement
Liability of team members to the team
The group then split into three teams for an exercise called Building and Carrying a ‘Shadduf’. The idea was to build a contraption used in ancient Egypt to scoop water from the Nile River. Then the teams had to prove that their contraption worked, and competed to see which team filled a large bucket with the most water in a minute – using their Shadduf. The exercise is aimed at assigning duties to individual team members and have them take ownership of the task as a team.
Finally, the day ended with a competitive challenge called Raft Rally. Teams had to negotiate an obstacle course by swimming, running around kayaks, leaping into the river, swimming again, and finally paddling a ducky (inflatable raft) in teams of two across the river and back.
It was a highly enjoyable day before the return to Nairobi. Here are some pictures of the day:
