Trilliums Games & Teambuilding 2-11-17

The Trilliums (a.k.a. Suave Squad) collaborated and problem solved their way through challenge after challenge this past Saturday during our first ever group Team Building outing! During our opening circle, we checked in and caught up with one another after a long month apart. The group Widened the Circle to welcome one of our new group members, Lilo, into the Trillium family.  There was a buzz of positive energy and excitement throughout our day together as the girls formed new connections and rekindled the old.

The girls wholeheartedly embraced the mottos Stretch Your Edge, Safety First, and We're All Teachers as they worked together to complete each task at hand. More impressive than the completion of each task, though, was the rich discussion, thoughtfulness, creativity of ideas, group growth, and collaborative problem solving that occurred during the process. As we say in EC, it's about the journey, not the destination, and the depth of teamwork and both group and individual edge stretching that occurred on this particular journey was remarkable to observe throughout the day.

We spent our day in rain and shine, sun and shade, as the girls successfully flipped a small tarp with everyone on it, lifted each other over ropes, circled the Labyrinth blindfolded, jumped over swinging ropes, and practiced their collaboration and problem solving skills through many different lenses.

An especially rich discussion occurred during our Leadership Quadrant challenge, during which we organized ourselves based on our innate leadership styles. Some of us were green leaders- the relationship masters who are all about collaboration. Others were red leaders- the commanders and controllers who, when a task needs to be accomplished, will do it, and do it now! Others in the group were yellow leaders- the visionaries who want to get the work done but have fun in the process. Finally, some girls saw themselves as blue leaders- the analytical, calculated leaders who might observe from afar but will do the task and do it right!



Ask your daughter what leadership styles she saw in herself? Which leadership styles challenge her the most? 

We concluded a fun, active, and both mentally and physically exhausting day with our Closing Circle, offering an Attitude of Gratitude and acknowledgement for something we learned about the group or ourselves.

Our words of the day? Mud, Games, Team Building, Suave Squad!

To view the full album of the day, click here.

Mottos especially alive today: Safety First, Stretch Your Edge, Widen the Circle, Collaborate and Compromise, Build Bridges Not Walls, We're All Teachers, Challenge By Choice