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With over 20 years of experience in storytelling, community development, improv, event production, and play, Wayfinder is a perfect fit to bring your program ideas to life. With teachers who have worked with young adventurers at age six, tweens and teens coming into their own, and adults from all walks of life, we can craft programming to fit your needs.
Educational Programs
Drawing from our vast curriculum of athletic sword games, improvisational theater, community building, storytelling, and roleplay, our programming is designed to teach creativity, communication, teamwork and critical thinking skills, all while fostering a strong sense of community among students.
We have worked with both public and private institutions, and are experienced in teaching special needs students. Listed below are some examples of the kinds of programs and events we can offer to schools, libraries, and home schooling groups, but we are also practiced in creating custom programming in collaboration with educators to best suit the needs of your program, students, and facilities. If you are interested in Wayfinder programming, please contact us and we will reach out to discuss details. Fees are scaled to the scope of the project.
After-School Programs
- Capture the Flag Class
Adding foam swordplay to the schoolyard classic, our version of Capture The Flag (CTF) is much more active, dynamic and team-oriented than its tag-based counterpart. In one of our CTF classes, students can expect to engage in numerous active games that push the boundaries between competitive and cooperative interaction, learning to act out high-intensity physical play safely and responsibly. The evolving complexity of our games will force them to build both leadership and team-building skills. For the full impact, we suggest 1-2 hour classes each week for 6-10 weeks. Participants should be ages 8 and up. - … with an Adventure Game
We take our CTF program and add in the rest of our curriculum: Trust Games, to further engender strong community bonds and emphasize cooperative abilities through interpersonal focus and communication. Improvisational Theater, which teaches self-confidence and quick thinking. And, of course, the LARP Adventure Game itself– a final class session in which students will become characters they themselves create and design, and use the problem-solving skills they’ve learned in a fantastical context. Because of the sheer amount of content this adds, we suggest 2-3 hour classes each week for 8-10 weeks. - Young Adventurers
Younger students (ages 6-8) who love make-believe benefit from flexible, responsive teaching and lots of 1-on-1 communication. In our Young Adventurers programs, they receive exactly that: a chance to express their creativity and playfulness in a supportive, imaginative environment. Every class session, students play in another episode of an interactive fantasy adventure– designed around their own creations, stories, drawings, and ideas. We recommend that these classes be no longer than 1 hour each week, and that they run for 6-10 weeks. - Improvisational Theater
In an Improv class, we’ll teach students the basics of a fun and challenging art form. They’ll learn to trust their partners and their instincts while quickly generating scenes for an audience of their peers in a supportive and constructive atmosphere. Improv teaches teamwork, confidence and problem-solving– helping to train public speaking skills while diminishing the associated anxieties. We can build a theatrical curriculum to match a wide variety of time constraints, from 1-3 hour classes over the course of 4-10 weeks.
Classroom Programs
- Curriculum Come to Life
We work with classroom teachers to design custom events and activities to bring course material to life. Students research issues, historic people and moments in time. Through improvisation techniques, they learn the materials by living it as the historical figures or literary characters in question, then teach it to their peers through group sharing. We supply costumes & props where appropriate. Ideal for K – 5, and middle school English and Social Studies classes. We can run a single event for 1-4 hours or an extended activity for 2-6 weeks, as desired. - Community Building Workshop
There may be a bullying epidemic among today’s students, but with over 10 years of experience in classrooms and camps, we have developed a uniquely safe and supportive method to create community through understanding, team building and play. In this course we teach students to engage with each other using fun games and exercises, and help to quash bullying through the use of empathy-teaching role play. We can make a difference in as little as one 2-4 hour session, or we can run consecutive classes for 2-4 weeks for even deeper bonding.
Literary Programs
- Literary Adventure
We fill your library with characters from your students’ favorite literature, using costumes and props to construct a scavenger hunt adventure that challenges their problem-solving and mediation skills. This works best as a one day event lasting 1-4 hours. - Story Time Theater
Our staff give a dramatic reading of a piece determined by the educator– maybe even one or more pieces written by your students!– and then facilitate students playing out the scenes from the story with them, along with alternative scenarios that encourage critical thinking about the characters and their perspectives. We suggest that these programs last for 1-2 hours, and they can range from a single workshop to four weekly sessions. - Writing Workshop
Our staff use their encyclopedic knowledge of storytelling and character development to work with students to write the fiction that is waiting to pour out of their minds. Students will brainstorm ideas, share pieces, and get peer feedback in a supportive and constructive format. We suggest that these workshops last 1-2 hours, depending on the age range of the students, and last between 3 and 10 weeks.
Theater Programs
Theater offerings include:
- Acting Classes
- Drama Clubs
- Auditioning and Directing
- Full Productions
- Stage Combat
- Physical Theater/Movent classes
- Mask and Clowning
All theater offerings are highly customizable to your schedule and students and can generally be presented in these formats, with personalized curriculum:
- One time workshops 1-2 hours long
- One on one or groups
- Full courses (weekly, multiple times a week; 2 weeks to full school years)
- Focusing on drama or comedy or both, and more!
- In school, after school, and special events
- Optional performances or sharings in final classes, or full productions
If your school or library is interested in in Wayfinder programming, please contact us! We’ll arrange a time to come to your school to present our work to your teaching staff and/or administration. We are flexible and can alter our programming to suit the learning needs of your students and your available facilities. We have worked with both public and alternative educational institutions and are experienced in teaching special needs students. Fees are scaled to scope of the project.
To book an event at your library or school, please call us at (845) 481 0776 or send us an email at info@wayfinderexperience.com.
Corporate Trainings and Team Bonding
Use the power of improvisational theater and roleplay to bring some magic to your workplace! With over 20 years of experience running programming, Wayfinder can create a team event to remember! Whether it’s building a sense of team through fun and games with our custom play-safe foam swords, helping refine public speaking and boost brainstorming through improvisational theater, or creating long-lasting bonds through the power of collaborative storytelling, we can work with you to craft an event to meet your organization’s needs.
Fill out our contact form, and someone from our team will reach out to discuss your unique needs and help craft a custom experience that your team will remember for years to come.
Custom Events
Do you have an idea for an event? Want to run a murder mystery for your friends? Craft a bonding experience for your students? Wayfinder is happy to work with you! Fill out our contact form, and someone from our team will reach out to discuss your unique needs and help create a custom experience that will bring your vision to life.
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Parties
Make your child’s next Birthday Party, Bar or Bat Mitzvah an event to remember!
From a simple day of Capture the Flag with play safe foam swords that is anything but simple, to an intense rite-of-passage live action role playing Adventure Game complete with costumes, characters and quests, do something completely different this year with The Wayfinder Experience!
Let Us Play!
- Parties include a hand-made Wayfinder Experience foam sword for the Guest of Honor to keep!
- All prices are based on two hours and twenty participants. Cost will vary with size and length of party.
- Basic, Weaponmaster and Ranger Package parties have a 2 hour minimum. Hero parties run for a minimum of 4 hours plus 2 hours of prep-work.
- Because of the athletic and semi-competitive nature of our games, we ask that all participants be of ages 8 and up.
- We require a $50 deposit to secure the date. The balance will be collected by our staff on the day of the party or can be sent to us through Zelle.
- Gratuities for our fun and energetic staff are welcome and appreciated.
Basic Package
The Basic package contains all of the essentials of a Wayfinder Birthday party. Kids learn how to use our foam swords and proceed to play a variety of games that will leave them beaming with enjoyment and wanting more, such as Capture the Flag, Dueling Circle, and Three Musketeers. Flexible and compatible with other party activities, this is the standard WFE birthday party package.
- Hudson Valley Location: $325 ($200 each additional hour)
- New York City/Westchester/Putnam Location: $425 ($250 each additional hour)
Weaponmaster Package
If your child loves our monster weapons, this is the package to choose. It contains all of the essentials of a Basic Wayfinder Birthday party plus more foam weapons: giant monster axes, shields and spears.
- Hudson Valley Location: $375 ($200 each additional hour)
- New York City/Westchester/Putnam Location: $475 ($250 each additional hour)
Ranger Package
Want a little more of what Wayfinder does in addition to foam weapons? Our Ranger Package is an introductory roleplay experience where participants will go to a “Tavern at the End of the World” as any character they want (costumes welcome!). There they will encounter magical characters and a little bit of mischief while working together to solve fantastical puzzles based in that world. On top of live action role playing, this package includes chances for sword fighting both before and during the Tavern Scene. We will provide you with language to pass on to your invitees to help them prepare characters for the party.
- Hudson Valley Location: $775 ($200 each additional hour)
- New York City/Westchester/Putnam Location: $975 ($250 each additional hour)
Hero Package
The Hero Package is the whole Wayfinder Experience packed into a very special birthday. Our staff will work with you and your child to create a day of magic and fantasy that will never be forgotten! The Hero Package includes: Capture the Flag with all weapons and magic systems, improvisational theater, medieval costuming, and a custom-written, interactive LARP Adventure Game. Please plan on a minimum of 4 hours for this event and know that we will also need some time to speak with the birthday child at least two weeks before the party.
- Hudson Valley Location: $1350 ($225 each additional hour)
- New York City/Westchester/Putnam Location: $1650 ($275 each additional hour)
Book a Party
If you’d like to book a party, or just have questions, please call us at (845) 481-0776 or send an email to info@wayfinderexperience.com. Please note that because our parties are outdoor parties, our regular party season runs from mid-March to mid-December. We do still play outside in the winter, however we’ll need a party date and a snow date and the cost will increase by $50 (because we have to set two dates aside). Once a party is booked, the liability waiver must be filled out before the party.
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