Team Building Details
Team Building Packages
Choose from several indoor, outdoor, and winter packages that best suit the needs of your team.
True Friends Team Building packages are great for schools, universities, businesses, youth groups, families, and anyone looking to bolster their team’s communication, trust, and collaboration all while enjoying fun challenges and activities! Each package includes a description of the activities, duration, cost, and available locations. To learn more contact us at teamb@truefriends.org.
Why True Friends Team Building?
Mission: The True Friend’s mission is to provide life-changing experiences that enhance independence and self-esteem for children and adults with disabilities.
When you choose True Friends Team Building, you support hundreds of children and adults with disabilities that we serve through our other programs year-round.
Custom goals: Our Team Building program offers activities with goals tailored to your group’s needs. Our facilitators are passionately driven to provide an unforgettable and impactful program. Through challenge by choice, Team Building participants are invited to step outside their comfort zones and offered the freedom to move about in a challenge zone. Skills are developed through play, and a wide variety of debriefing tools help drive home the lessons learned.
Results: We produce real-world applications that improve self-efficacy, group dynamics, team communication work, classroom environments, and much more.
Outdoor Activities
This program is for a group looking for a short, fun-based activity.
Duration: 2 hours
Activity: Choose from either low or high elements
Cost: $20 per person
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Courage North – Lake George, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prarie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
This is our most popular program!
Duration: 4-5.5 hours
Activity: Ground-based initiatives and a high rope element
Cost: $29 per person
Add ziplining for an additional $6 per person. (Not available at Camp Eden Wood).
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prairie, MN
This program is for the group looking for the ultimate team building experience.
Duration: 6-7 hours
Activity: Includes multiple ground- based initiatives and two high ropes elements
Cost: $42 per person
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prarie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
Get the team building experience with the feel of a retreat.
Duration: 24-48 hours
Activity: Includes ground-based initiatives, high rope elements, three meals, and a campfire extravaganza
Cost: Contact us for pricing
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prarie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
The perfect program for when you’re looking to get out of the office but can’t make it to our challenge course. Our portable events come to a location of your choosing, whether at a park or in and around the office building, we can provide meaningful teambuilding options for your team.
Duration: 4 hours
Activity: Customizable
Cost: Group pricing starts at $800
Indoor Activities
This program focuses on identifying and developing the personal strengths of each team member.
Duration: 2-3 hours
Activity: Customizable
Cost: Group pricing starting $900
This program focuses on identifying skills needed to work as an effective and efficient team.
Duration: 2-3 hours
Activity: Customizable
Cost: Group pricing starts at $800
This program gets your team talking and looking at the big picture and creating a team-oriented culture. Table top challenges offer insight for solutions to real-world issues.
Duration: 2-3 hours
Activity: Customizable
Cost: Group pricing starts at $800
Winter Activities
Take on the extreme conditions a Minnesota winter can throw at you and you’ll stay warm with a cup of hot chocolate made over the fire!
Duration: 4-5 hours
Activity: Includes learning how to build a fire, team building challenges, and overcoming the high ropes course
Cost: $29 per person
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prarie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
Your team must work together and learn necessary skills in order to complete this challenge. S’mores and hot chocolate are the rewards for completing this challenge!
Duration: 3 hours
Activity: Includes learning fire-building techniques, shelter-building, and winter safety
Cost: $29 per person
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prarie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
Your team will work in small groups to discover components to build a fire as well as climbing gear to overcome the high ropes course.
Duration: 3 hours
Activity: Includes learning basic orienteering, knot tying, and belaying skills while building a fire, and navigating high ropes activities
Cost: $29 per person
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prarie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
Prepare Your Team
2-3 weeks prior to your scheduled event, a True Friends Team Building representative will reach out with pertinent information for your day such as meeting spots, pre-splitting groups, any adaptive needs, etc.
We will be out on the course rain, snow, or shine. In the event of severe weather, we will plan for indoor programming when possible, or reschedule for the next earliest availability. Please plan to participate rain or shine!
Chaperones: Plan to have one chaperone for every 10-15 individuals under 18.
Ensure you have the right clothes and gear with our packing list here.