Our day started early at 8.30 am with the organizers breaking the ice and pumping some energy into our computer dominated boring life’s. After some important safety instructions, we were taken through a series of tasks which required both team work as well as individual competence.
Dynamic Obstacle Course (DOC) was the first task of that morning. The whole course reminded me of Takeshi's Castle in POGO channel, which I had always wanted to be a part of. 2 teams were formed out of the 18 of us and each team needs to get to the other side, by abiding some rules. There were obstacles all through the way and the team needs to use the resources provided; poles and rope, to get from one side to the other. So we began having a look at the resources we were given - two wooden poles, two ropes, and a drum (oh, did I call it a drum!, sorry it’s supposed to be called a Baby !!).
Dynamic Obstacle Course (DOC) was the first task of that morning. The whole course reminded me of Takeshi's Castle in POGO channel, which I had always wanted to be a part of. 2 teams were formed out of the 18 of us and each team needs to get to the other side, by abiding some rules. There were obstacles all through the way and the team needs to use the resources provided; poles and rope, to get from one side to the other. So we began having a look at the resources we were given - two wooden poles, two ropes, and a drum (oh, did I call it a drum!, sorry it’s supposed to be called a Baby !!).
The objective of the game was to carry the baby from one end to the other without putting it down on the ground. In addition, all the team members had to also get over to the other end with their respective resources. Middle part of the course was the most difficult part and it was designed in such way that both teams had to help each other or else it’s like a complete Bangalore traffic jam! Well, as expected people assumed it as a competition and no one could finally reach the other side, as we were busy blocking each other in the middle. So the moral of this task was: it’s not always, a one on one competition out there. We need to help each other to achieve a much larger goal, i.e. success of the whole organization!
After having lunch, we were ready for our next activity - "Raft building", which was equally exciting specially because we were supposed to build out the raft and then use the same to cross over the lake. Until building the raft, well that we can do but actually sitting on it and then crossing the lake, was extreme adventure for all of us !!
The raw materials at our disposal were: Bamboos (12 ft, 6ft, 4ft), Cylindrical floaters, Ropes and paddles.
After having lunch, we were ready for our next activity - "Raft building", which was equally exciting specially because we were supposed to build out the raft and then use the same to cross over the lake. Until building the raft, well that we can do but actually sitting on it and then crossing the lake, was extreme adventure for all of us !!
The raw materials at our disposal were: Bamboos (12 ft, 6ft, 4ft), Cylindrical floaters, Ropes and paddles.
We were given 25 mins to design 3 rafts (one of which should be the fastest one, a medium size carrying 5 ppl and a bigger size carrying 8 ppl) and get it approved from our guides. After getting the approval began the much difficult task of building it as per our design. On paper things look good but some things get changed when they take the final shape. Well, that’s exactly what happened even to one of our rafts. Being built of merely bamboos and designed like a grid, we were thoroughly soaked in water. The best part of this exercise was, all our rafts had successfully crossed the lake with none of us getting drowned!
During the night, we played another game which is popularly known as, the “Zero Sum Game”. Objective in this game is to win as much as we can, but in the end inspite of knowing what to achieve we all lost together! It taught us the importance of Trust and Mis-Trust among human beings and how we all should strive to get rid of it. After having a great dinner, everyone called it a day with a perfect camp fire and some wine!!
Next day after having a heavy breaker, we went for a “Trekking”. This was not the usual trekking but it involved a task where-in most of the people were given multiple disabilities. Some of us were blind, some were dumb and some were even hand cuffed! The objective again was to complete the trek with no one of us getting injured in the process. A very few people in the team were fortunate not to have any kind of disabilities and it was their task to plan and make this happen. Although we forgot one of our teammate in the middle of the trek but finally we were able to achieve the goal successfully after an hour long hard work.
During the night, we played another game which is popularly known as, the “Zero Sum Game”. Objective in this game is to win as much as we can, but in the end inspite of knowing what to achieve we all lost together! It taught us the importance of Trust and Mis-Trust among human beings and how we all should strive to get rid of it. After having a great dinner, everyone called it a day with a perfect camp fire and some wine!!
Next day after having a heavy breaker, we went for a “Trekking”. This was not the usual trekking but it involved a task where-in most of the people were given multiple disabilities. Some of us were blind, some were dumb and some were even hand cuffed! The objective again was to complete the trek with no one of us getting injured in the process. A very few people in the team were fortunate not to have any kind of disabilities and it was their task to plan and make this happen. Although we forgot one of our teammate in the middle of the trek but finally we were able to achieve the goal successfully after an hour long hard work.
The final task of the day was to first write a small one page story each, and then create a final one which should contain some content from each of the individual 18 stories. This again was to be done in 45 mins. Since by this time, everyone of us had enhanced our skills of team work (supposedly!) and completing a task with precision on time, we finally came up with an amazing story which had all the ingredients required to become a Bollywood box-office superhit of all times!
After all the analysis and feedback we all were fully satisfied with this unique experience. The program in a whole was very nicely planned and it involved the right quality of tasks which were quite absorbing throughout the event.
