There’s nothing to beat the friendship formed in the bushveld, and ILANGA Lodge provides the ideal setting for motivational team-building and conferencing. Leave the daily grind behind and unite your management team with a fresh clear sense of focus and camaraderie.


Whatever you choose, our staff is on hand to make sure that your corporate getaway runs smoothly and effectively, enabling you to derive the maximum benefit from the special time set aside for furthering your business interests.

Nature is in contrast (in an unorthodox way) to workday life and creates a motivating situation with a high intensity. It arouses associations such as leisure time, vacation, diversion, experience, fun, and adventure. It brings about a positive fundamental attitude among participants supporting the openness for self-reflection and processes of change. A personal development, in which everyone experiences himself, proves himself, and changes himself.

When you look up in an early winter sky and see a formation of geese, you might be interested to know why they fly in formation. As each bird flaps its wings it creates uplift for the bird immediately behind it. By flying in a V formation the whole flock adds 70% more to its flying range than if one bird flew alone.

When a goose falls out of the formation it suddenly feels the tremendous drag of trying to do it alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lift. When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into the wing and another goose fly's point. The geese honk from behind to encourage those in front to keep up the pace. When a goose gets ill or is wounded, two geese follow it down to help and protect it. They stand by until it can fly again or until it dies. They then launch out on their own or join another formation to catch up with their group.

As members/ friends of a team, we can learn from the geese to share a common sense of purpose and direction, to stay in formation if we are going the same way, to take turns assisting each other, to clap and encourage each other and to stand by each other in times of distress.

"The Goose Story"

Team Workshop

A management team needs time and scope to grow. In our deadlocked and civilized workday routine, this is only possible in a very restricted way. At your workshop participants develop the goals and get to know themselves and their behavior patterns through a practical exercise in nature.

They form their team processes and create alternative behavior patterns and solutions for everyday life. The team recognizes its possibilities! Only frank dealing with uncertainties, feelings, and conflicts creates the breeding ground for productive team development. During your workshop, the managers should be actively coached by the trainers. Reflection and transfer ensure that the skills discovered and practiced out in the open deliver tangible benefits even in everyday life.

Nature

Nature is in contrast (in an unorthodox way) to workday life and creates a motivating situation with a high intensity. It arouses associations such as leisure time, vacation, diversion, experience, fun, and adventure. It brings about a positive fundamental attitude among participants supporting the openness for self-reflection and processes of change. A personal development in which everyone experiences himself, proves himself, and changes himself.

  • As an unusual field of activity nature enables unusual learning experiences in a neutral, risk-free
  • Atmosphere. Decisions are taken in a quick and unbureaucratic way – even beyond hierarchies.   
  • Nature is direct, genuine, and earnest.  
  • Intellect, experience, and action are activated likewise, body and mind are sought after. Nature offers
  • A complex, integrated learning arrangement with high intensity. The learning targets are established
  • at a cognitive, affective, social, and motor level at the same time.    
  • In nature communication and team situations are turned into playful metaphors. Professional problem definitions are illustrated congruently in the workshop ("isomorphism"). The diagnosis of engraved behavior patterns creates the base for action-oriented learning.
  • Perception of essential aspects is sharpened - less is often more!
  • Training situations in nature have a high memo value which also works weeks after the training.
  • Nature exemplifies change to us! This creates a positive climate for change.
  • The immediate experience of "Africa" conveys an appreciative reference to nature to participants,
  • Coupled with respect for all living creatures.