All adventures and packages can be customized based on your needs.

Using the Treetop Zip Tour as a team-building tool is what Empower set out to do 10 years ago and it continues to be a fan favorite!

But before you go, I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t explain more about why this is such a great team-building activity:

Choosing this guided 1.5-2 hour excursion through the peaceful forest on the Salamander Resort & Spa property is always a popular choice among group participants!  However, there is always a range of eagerness in groups.  Some are gung-ho and ready to go, others are apprehensive and timid.  The Treetop Zip Tour is meant to be an empowering experience that brings everyone together to overcome a common challenge.

Using the encouragement and support of each member of the group, everyone transforms together; meaning everyone experiences the benefit of facing challenges, overcoming fears, mustering up their courage, and in the end, feeling the satisfaction of succeeding and winning together.

Make no mistake, the Treetop Zip Tour is FUN, but it’s also so much more.  We assure you that by overcoming the adversity of this challenge and fear of heights as a group, this experience will take your team to higher levels of trust and belief in one another!

Time required is determined by the number of participants.

EMERGE is a series of ground-based, teaming up activities delivered by an Empower Leadership facilitator to achieve specific outcomes. We use concepts derived from Stephen Covey’s Emotional Bank Account, Bruce Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development, Simon Sinek’s culture building theories and more.

Why EMERGE?

By pairing these team-building models with unique adventure activities, our facilitators are able to appropriately challenge groups to engage with each other in these activities.  It is in these activities that group will travel through the team-building spectrum of experiencing failure, learning from that failure, and then applying the lessons learned to find success.  It is this process that will bring your team together, help to improve your culture (what is normal!), and potentially change the way you do business back in the office.

Our hope is that the lessons learned and energy derived from WINNING at Empower will give your team the confidence to try new and different techniques for communicating and action planning.  Additionally, this experience will provide opportunities to be vulnerable with each other creating deeper and more meaningful connections which will result in a synergy that can bring your team to a place of achievement, success, and positive momentum.

EMERGE is a customizable offering that is normally combined with a high adventure such as the Treetop Zip Tour or the Deluxe Survival Challenge.

Time required varies by package.

Pricing varies by package.

*Note – if you are a non-profit, municipality, school or church group please ask us about our special programs and discounts!

SOAR is the number one choice for adventure team building in the greater DC area!  With SOAR, you will elevate your team, fortify relationships and raise the bar for positive energy and encouragement!  What team wouldn’t want this?

The SOAR package combines our full Treetop Zip Tour through the beautiful woodlands on the Salamander Resort & Spa property.  This experience will elevate your sense of adventure to extraordinary. Traverse the 20-acre eco course over varying zip line lengths, heights, and two suspension bridges.

On the ground, either before or after the Treetop Zip Tour, the Empower Leadership team will facilitate our EMERGE ground-based team-building experience.  These customized activities (large puzzle-like mind-benders, collaborative exercises, and problem-solving experiences) are designed to challenge your group to overcome failure and adversity and ultimately embrace a fearless pursuit of success.  It is in this process of “engaging, failing, learning, succeeding” that our leadership experts will encourage your team to resist the urge to be negative when adversity strikes, prompt your participants to create momentum with subtle acts of leadership, and encourage the group to truly collaborate to find the best solution.  We are guessing you won’t need much coaching when it comes to celebrating your success – and you will succeed if you commit to the Empower process.

SOAR requires approximately 4 hours.

*Note – if you are a non-profit, municipality, school or church group please ask us about our special programs and discounts!

Alongside experienced Empower Leadership instructors, take off into the woods for a true Survivor experience.

This course provides a great team building opportunity as well as a chance to learn valuable life-saving techniques if one ever finds themselves in a survival situation.

From shelter building and water purification to rope skills and self-rescue techniques, this is the perfect “wake-up/out-in-nature” style experience for your team.  Team members will naturally be nudged outside of their comfort zones as they consider the consequences to their actions or inactions during this training simulation. 

This all-new, all-encompassing challenge will test your team in every way possible combining elements of our adventure-based experiences and scavenger hunt-style clue finding.

The Tribal Challenge is a highly-engaging, outdoor team building event. The Tribes are challenged with a series of fun, physical, and mental problem-solving activities where effective communication, trust, and working together is paramount to success.

The Tribal Challenge takes participants on a skillfully crafted mix of adventure experiences with equal parts Survivor, Scavenger Hunt, and Empower’s proven EMERGE team building program. It serves as a purposeful springboard to strengthen attributes of a healthy team culture such as communication, inclusion, trust, and personal leadership. This challenge provides tangible take-aways for continued growth and opportunity for the team to continue pushing towards higher-level functioning and cohesiveness.