Bringing people together with fun!!!

What if just after dinner on the very first evening of the conference, or maybe right before the keynote, or maybe even instead of the keynote, for about an hour, you give everyone a taste of what it's like to be part of a successful conference.

This one hour can help set the tone for your entire conference!

The heart of the Junkyard Golf Conference Kickoff Kit is a structured learning experience based on the concept of Junkyard Sports. It involves people in a series of fun, structured tasks that begin with their creation of their own variation of golf, and ends with a relaxed, but thoughtful conversation about the success and relevance of the conference itself.

Given your average business conference, all that business and all those people, it's all too easy for conference goers to lose sight of the opportunities the conference presents. People wander off in small groups, going from session to session, creating their own little community while losing sight of all the inter-relating communities the conference has brought together.

Using their Conference Kickoff Kits and collected recycled industrial scrap and whatever else they can find, people experience what it is like to be part of a creative, collaborating community while at the same time discovering the genius of other’s perspectives, while building miniature golf-like things.

Conference-goers get focused, creative, relaxing, making connections. Connections between pieces of scrap, between the random collection of people they're sitting with at the table (the "team"), the people at other tables (the "community"), and between the game they're playing and the conference they're attending.

You can play Junkyard Golf right before lunch, maybe after, or maybe after the keynote.  Capacity for game: 12 people to 400 people.

Good Stuff, Good Fun, Good Learning

100% of the materials used are industrial rejects. And it's all clean, "neat" stuff: thick, colorful paper cylinders, sturdy plastic cones, sticky-back stuff, fabric and yarn. Sorted into identical kits for each team, the collection of stuff helps highlight creativity and ingenuity, design and playfulness. Because there are no "right" ways to use the stuff, people feel invited rather than threatened, enticed into play. This results in both laughter and learning.

Is your Junkyard Golf Conference Kickoff Kit REUSABLE?

If you buy it you are licensed to play it again and again.  You should also know that no matter how hard you try, it's very likely that what came out of a box will not be the same as what went back in. Luckily, the changes are usually quite minor, so you can play Junkyard Golf again and again. You can even add neat stuff of your own, customizing the content to the customer, as it were, so to speak.

You can buy your set up, or have us come out and manage your entire program.

The Junkyard Golf Conference Kick start Kit includeseverything you need to play it.

• Background materials on fun and collaboration

• Player guides

• Packaged, selected, uniform collections of neat stuff for all

• Step-by-step instructions for facilitating and debriefing the game, for example:

  • Challenge and Motivation - the team's success is determined by how inviting and involving their golf hole proves to be. Discussing how the team worked to determine the difficulty of the hole, and what they did to increase or decrease the challenge can lead to some highly relevant explorations of challenge and motivation in organizational structures.

  • Teamwork vs. Community work - once each team has finished making the hole, participants suddenly discover that a whole golf course has been created. A discussion about the value of shifting perspective, from hole to whole, can lead to important insights about the nature of the relationships between business teams.

  • Creative Repurposing - much of the fun of the "junkyard" approach lies in the way people repurpose industrial scrap to build a golfing challenge. This experience of "creative repurposing" is more than fun. It's a survival skill, and the more that people talk about creative repurposing at work the more effective they become in using the tools at their disposal