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Hostage Rescue
Time-critical missions, team-wide effort
Teams work through a chain of missions against the clock to complete a rescue, splitting tasks and sharing information to get to the end.
- Setting
- Outdoors
- Duration
- 8 hours / 2 day option
- Activity level
- Active
- Group size
- 4 – 12 participants
Time-critical missions, team-wide effort
Teams work through a chain of missions against the clock, splitting tasks and sharing information to reach a rescue before time runs out. Every stage builds on the last, so no team can skip ahead by luck.
It is a deliberately demanding format for small, focused groups, and it shows how a team delegates, communicates and handles pressure. The debrief is often as valuable as the event itself.
Runs as a full day with a two-day option, for teams of 4 to 12. Best suited to leadership groups, project teams and intact teams who want something with real bite.
Because the group is deliberately small, the facilitation is closer to a workshop than a party. Our host sets the scenario, controls the clock and keeps a quiet record of who took which role, when information stopped moving and where the team repeated work. Those observations are what make the debrief land rather than just sounding like praise.
The debrief is run by the same host who ran the event, immediately afterwards, with your facilitator or people lead in the room if you want one. Teams usually leave with two or three specific commitments about how they will communicate during the next busy period, which is why L&D and HR teams come back to this format.
It can run indoors, outdoors or across a venue and surrounding streets, and the story is mapped to your site if you have one. Two-day versions build the scenario across an overnight, which suits offsites and leadership programs where the event needs to carry more than a single afternoon.
Great for
- Leadership groups
- Teams of 4 to 12
- Full-day programs
What to expect
- Multi-stage missions
- Encourages delegation
- Time pressure drama
How it runs on the day
From the moment your team arrives they are operatives, not colleagues. Real security operators run the intelligence briefing, teach the decision-making frameworks used in crisis situations, and guide your team through planning the rescue with incomplete information.
Day one covers intelligence, planning and the assault, with teams adapting as the situation changes. Two-day bookings add night operations and a final assault, finishing with a full debrief on leadership, communication and how your team performed when the pressure was real.
Available Australia wide, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, the Gold Coast and regional locations.
Bringing a whole company, a conference or a school? Corporate team building covers larger groups and full-day programs, conference programs run across multi-day agendas, and school events cover colour runs, challenge days and fundraisers.
Questions about the Hostage Rescue
The things teams ask us before booking. Anything else, call 1300 044 197 or send an enquiry.
Plan on 8 hours / 2 day option. We build the running order around your program, so the Hostage Rescue can slot into a conference session, hold its own half day or stretch into a longer format.
Our standard range is 4 – 12 participants, and we can stretch beyond that with extra hosts and waves. Everyone is placed in a team, so nobody is left watching.
You will be on your feet and moving for most of the event, with plenty of walking. Comfortable shoes are the only real requirement, and we adapt challenges for anyone who needs a slower pace.
We build the route or course around your start and finish, whether that is your office, a park, a beach or a hired venue. Anywhere with a bit of space and a few landmarks works.
We watch the forecast in the week before your event and call you if it looks marginal. You can go ahead anyway, postpone without penalty with at least 24 hours notice, or pivot to an indoor version of the same event.
Send an enquiry with your date, headcount and location. We reply with a clear quote and a plan for the day, usually within one business day. Accepting the quote and paying a 30% deposit locks in your date.
