ConnectOcean offers a unique take on the Corporate Team Building Experience.
Our company is founded on the core values of social responsibility and environmental awareness.
Beyond ensuring that your time with us is fun and rewarding, we design our activities to highlight not just the importance of a healthy workplace, but a healthy planet too.
the opportunity to turn our beach into your office!
dynamic interaction between participants and facilitators
time to apply fundamental management skills to unboxed scenarios
a course to suit your company goals and individual needs
-Vince Lombardi-
Relationships are formed as team members are required to co-operate to achieve success.
Barriers are overcome as colleagues interact within a relaxed atmosphere and get to appreciate each other’s hidden talents.
Team members analyze reasons for success and failure, and therefore develop positive group dynamics and an understanding of the requirements of effective teamwork.
Individuals are challenged to step out of their comfort zone and discover what they are capable of.
Activities are based on core themes, and you get to choose from a variety of formats to suit the outdoors (or indoors on inclement days, which are very rare!).
These activities are designed to harness and enforce core statements within the team and within the individual.
The activities are suitable for people of all ages and abilities, as well as large and small groups.
You have the benefit of:
As part of our values we aim to return value to a community. A percentage of all of our corporate work is channelled into one of our local community based programs, focusing on developing and cultivating local skill and education.
By working with us you are sponsoring one of the following programs:
Sin Limités Costa Rica is ConnectOcean’s sister project. It is registered locally as a Not for Profit Association. SL focuses on capacity building and developing Life Skills - an awareness within communities is created by integrating volunteers in a program, who, in turn, offer adventure sport to people with disabilities. The Program contributes to their mental and physical health, fostering strong social bonds and rehabilitation opportunities.
To date we have:
In addition to being an Association that interacts with people with disabilities, Sin Limites Costa Rica is also a registered Sport Association. Many of our board members are also Paralympic Athletes competing at a variety of disciplines including swimming, volleyball, and adaptive football at International level! Sport has become a powerful bridge to overcome barriers, showing that whatever inherent strength we harbour may act as catalyst when faced with adverse conditions...I am stronger than the sum total of my fears!
The Association’s specific objectives are:
ConnectOcean Education uses place-based experiential learning programs to engage students and communities in identifying problems and brainstorming to solves these.
Our hands-on, community-based service learning is focused on marine ecosystems. The Educational programs combine ocean stewardship with STEM education initiatives, giving participants the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of real-time researchers, conservationists, and explorers. The program combines elements of exploration with environmental education and research, anchored by passionate mentors working within the STEM Industry.
Each one of our Education Programs is linked to a Citizen Science Project.
Our collaboration with Manta Trust involves 2 projects:
ConnectOcean and the Manta Trust are currently collaborating on the development of a Global Manta ID app. The purpose of this app is:
Drowning is the second highest cause of accidental death in Costa Rica, surpassing drowning statistics of Australia and the USA!
There is virtually no infrastructure or drowning-prevention campaign that lessens the drowning statistics in communities. Through this project and our involvement with the local community, we have identified the crucial need for a “Learn to Swim” program within disadvantaged and rural communities. ConnectOcean has developed a Grassroots Drowning Prevention Program aptly named ‘SWIM SAFE Costa Rica”, which focuses on teaching water safety to locals.
Attending students receive their Swim School Instructor Training as part of an extracurricular activity after school and weekends, and once the internship program starts they shadow teach with our in-house instructors (as part of the SWIM SAFE Costa Rica initiative) in teaching disadvantaged communities related skills. This certification is recognized globally, and the implications are enormous.
Once a swimmer from the SWIM SAFE Costa Rica program becomes more competent he/she is encouraged to participate in the ConnectOcean Nipper Surf Lifesaving Program.
The Program focuses on educating children to recognize potential hazardous conditions associated with an ever-changing aquatic environment. Emphasis is placed on safety, respect, physical fitness, instruction, and discipline. Students are schooled in the oceanic environment, First Aid, C.P.R., cooperation and lifesaving methods.
Classes are presented weekly and once participants are of age, they can earn a full lifeguard certification. Our goal with this program is to create fully functional duty squads that would provide voluntary lifesaving duties on the local beaches as part of a community service program. We are in the process of developing the sport of Lifesaving to build a Costa Rican Surf Lifesaving team, able to compete at future world championships.