Building Team Dynamics for Successful Group Adventures - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center

6:30 - 8:30pm at the Seattle Program Center in Cascade A&B

One happy outcome of a trip, particularly a long one, is the feeling that participants formed a team and worked well together.  By contrast, most of us know disappointment when there is conflict instead. Let's learn what we can do as leaders to foster team development and build successful teams.

In preparation, bring the idea of a trip, real or imaginary, that you can use as practice.

Seminar Notes

This presentation will encourage attendees to speak up throughout the presentation and be interactive with prompting discussion questions interspersed within lecture segments. 

PRESENTER

Tom Unger grew up in Michigan, family camping and messing around in small boats on rivers and big lakes.  In 1989 he moved to Seattle to be near mountains and the ocean.  In 1993 he joined the mountaineers, got equivalency for basic climbing, completed the intermediate climbing course, and became a climb leader.  That started his 4-decade carrier of exploring the outdoors in various modes, including:

• hiking and backpacking, especially traverses in the Sierra,
• crag and alpine climbing
• back country skiing
• canyoneering in Utah
• sailing in the great lakes and Salish sea
• scuba diving in Puget sound and the tropics
• flying small planes here and in the Idaho and Utah backcountry
• canoeing and packrafting locally and in the arctic
• sea kayaking in the Salish sea and the coast of Candida and Alaska